The document discusses the quantified self movement, which involves self-tracking various metrics about oneself through technology for self-knowledge and improvement. It describes tracking fitness with devices like Runtastic and Jawbone bands, sleep with sleep trackers, food intake with smart scales, brainwaves, health metrics with services like InsideTracker, and DNA with 23andMe. The document also discusses tracking mood, willpower, creativity, and conducting personal experiments in life optimization through quantifying various measures.

1. Today’s Session on
The Quantified Self
by Manuel Kraus

2. What’s happening today?
-What is QS?
-What is it for?
- some specific areas
- personal QS experiment

3. QS IS ABOUT…

4. Measuring Yourself
• Self-Knowledge through numbers
– Analyze trends and set goals for self-improvement
• Recording of daily activities
– Fitness
– Sleep
– Activity
– …
• Self-analytics, self hacking, lifelogging, body
hacking,…

5. What gets measured gets managed.
Peter Drucker

7. Askmeevery.com

8. TRACKING YOUR FITNESS

9. Runtastic

11. Jawbone up!

12. Jawbone up!

13. Jawbone up!

15. SLEEP TRACKING

16. Measuring Your Sleep

17. Measuring Your Sleep

18. Or alternatively: Sleep Cycle

19. Or: Sleep as Android

20. FOOD TRACKING

21. Chef Sleeve
• Smart Food Scale
• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chefslee
ve/smart-food-scale-less-about-weight-more-
about-you

24. MEASURING BRAINWAVES

25. Measuring Your Brainwaves

26. Measuring Yourself

27. HEALTHCARE

28. ‚DO WE NEED DOCTORS OR
ALGORITHMS?‘
Vinod Khosla

29. • “Health care is like witchcraft
and just based on tradition.”
• Health care must be more
data driven and about
wellness, not sick care.
• 80 % of doctors could be
replaced by machines.

30. • Possible to replace:
doctor’s experience
intuition
therapeutic touch and listening ?

31. AliveCor

32. Inside Tracker
• http://www.insidetracker.com/tour/#tabs-1

36. Cellscope

37. Star Trek‘s Tricorder?

38. Scanadu Scout

39. Scanadu measures
• vital signs
• Temperature
• ECG
• heart rate
• oximetry

41. SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING

42. • Can tracking your mood improve your
mood, or make life easier in some way?
• Is there any evidence of this?

43. 43

46. LUMOback
• http://lumoback.com/

49. MoodPanda

50. W/Me Wristband

52. Measuring Neurotransmitters?

53. OUR DNA

56. 23andme
 low-cost individual DNA genotyping
• Founder: Anne Wojcicki
• Genotyping ≈ Sequencing
• Know what you at risk for
• Big data -> more insight

57. 23andme
• Reports on health conditions and traits
• Testing for inherited conditions
• Discover your ancestry composition
• Updates on your DNA as science advances

58. OTHERS

59. What else to check out:
• http://www.quantified-mind.com/
• http://www.cardiio.com/
• http://goodtohear.co.uk/happiness
Movie on Quantified Self:
• https://vimeo.com/61947763

60. PERSONAL EXPERIMENTS

61. Measured Me
• Measuredme.com
• Personal experiment
• Life optimization

62. Measuring Willpower

63. Measuring Creativity
• Fluency (how many solutions were introduced to
the problem)
• Flexibility (how diverse were these solutions)
• Originality (how well do these solutions stand
out)
• Elaboration (amount of detail)

64. Measuring Creativity

65. That’s it 