Under sousveillance: personal
informatics & techniques of the self

sr bna

Are we too infatuated
with the present?

The past is not dead.
Itʼs not even past.

bullet time apps for data

The strategic idea
of the archive
is a
refreshed now.

What happens when
we help people make
invisible life patterns
visible?

watching you watch yourself

Blame Coates & Jones

Clickstreams
Location
Taste data
Status updates
Social connections
Photos/writing/bookmarking
Financial data
Email/phone/SMS/IM
Smart objects
External sources

Where is the Kayak for my life?

“People check their stats like
crack addled gerbils.”
Matt Mullenweg

* Discovery
* Wayfinding
* Validation
* Analytics
* Documentation

It should be ambient.

It should be visual.

It should be ubiquitous.

It should create a dialog
between the self and the group.

“Information
processing dissolving
into behavior.”

“Everyware is always situated
in a particular context.”

“The appeal of everyware is at
some level universal.”

Caveats:
* Making explicit what was latent
* Need to see the beautiful seams
* Interconnection brings emergent,
unexpected consequences
* We donʼt know the privacy issues yet
* Avoid the ʻset upʼ problem
* Managing ongoing user expectations
* Structure v. experimentation

Many thanks to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiveinchpixie/527148477/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heather/2904402/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoonie/27555176/
http://flickr.com/photos/toughkidcst/2959726563/

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