Status and visions of wearables and lifelogging. There is more to the quantified self than just narcissistic health monitoring.

1. WEARABLE COMPUTING AND
LIFELOGGING
By Odd-Wiking Rahlff
Senior User Experience Designer, Visma Software Int. AS
Presented for Ifi Design, January 30th 2014

2. AGENDA
¢ The
Vision
¢ History
¢ Status
¢ Challenges
¢ The Future
¢ Discussion

3. VISION OF WEARABLES
¢ (Web)connected
electronic gadgets with displays
and sensors and actuators that are made to be
worn like clothes or accessories.
¢ Interweaves with daily life and activities
¢ ”Bitstream relays”

4. BUT USED FOR WHAT?
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The next cool thing looking for a need?
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Self tracking – quantified self – biometrics
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Advanced step counter
Training assistance
Fitness and sleep monitor
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Life logging
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Photolog
Places you have been
Sounds around
Parasitic on other gadgets
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Phone log
Twitterlog
FB-log
Sense augmentation and AR

5. HISTORY OF A TIMEPIECE
?!

6. HISTORY OF WEARABLES AS SUCH
¢ 1980s:
Steve Mann, MIT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

7. STATUS FROM CES 2014
SONY SMARTBAND AND CORE FOR
LIFELOGGING

8. OTHER WEARABLE LOGGERS
¢ Jawbone
Up
¢ Nike Fuelband
¢ Fitbit tracker
¢ Livescribe Pen

9. …BUT THERE IS MORE THAN THIS
“The bracelet will become available in limited quantities worldwide later this
month. It comes in a striking rose gold colorway, which takes cues
from high-end timepieces, with a clasp, bezel and screws manufactured
from 316 series stainless steel. The beautifully crafted metal
components are then hand-polished to a mirror finish and given a
beautiful and extremely durable PVD coating.
The Rose Gold Nike+ FuelBand SE will be available from select retail
locations and nike.com beginning November 21, 2013 for a suggested
retail price of $169 USD”

10. SETTING YOUR MARK ON THE TIMELINE
Neanderthal hands, El Castillo, Spain

11. SAINT-LOUPE-DE-VARENNES, 1826
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

12. FACES FROZEN IN TIME, 1839

13. MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER JENNY
– BORNHOLM 1914

14. LIFELOGGING
¢ “The
cover story spotlights the controversial
practice of lifelogging - the painstaking effort to
capture a life in photos, letters, keepsakes, video,
audio recordings and more.”
¢ CACM, May 2010

15. REASONS FOR LOGGING
¢ The
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frail human memory
Memory Glasses [deVaul, MIT, 2003]
Remembrance Agent [Rhodes, 1996]
MyLifeBits [Gordon Bell]
¢ Self
inspection
¢ The Innerverse

16. THE REVISITED TIMELINE
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Leeds, October 1888
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Berlin 1900
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8hnCRrGoE
London 1926
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0
London 1904
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQpkIlv_lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M
London revisited
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kml92pPjx0
E.g. Odd hits, July 6.1962 (27:40)

17. PERSONAL AND SHARED STORIES
Personal
¢ From
Big Brother
¢ To “Little Brother”s
Group
Public

18. NEEDS FOR STORAGE
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Books (~ 1 MB /book)
All the books in the world - Library of Congress
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All the Movies in the world 100-200.000
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28 mill books
28 TB
Some PB
A logged Life
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100 TB
October 2013:
“3D magnetic storage breakthrough
enables 100TB+ hard drives”
[Source: G.Bell, 2001. Kahle, 2004]
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19. SEARCHING YOUR LIFELOG…
¢ Words
in my talkstream
¢ Places I’ve visited
¢ Along my Timeline
¢ Places my heart raced
¢ Times of joy
¢ …
¢ By active search…
¢ …or
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by passive
Contextual triggering

20. FACEBOOK TIMELINE, SEPTEMBER 2011

21. BITSTREAMS
21
(s,ID,t,…)
senso
r
s
tag
ID
f(s,ID,t,…)

22. THE INTERWEAVING OF THE STREAMS
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The things we see
The things we see together
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”I feel a great disturbance in the Force”
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23. CHALLENGES
¢ Data
integrity and privacy
¢ Fragmented standards
¢ Proprietary walled gardens
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Apple
Samsung
Sony
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¢ Battery
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The endless charging cycles
¢ Synchronisation
¢ Data
preservation
¢ Usefulness

24. DATA FOR WHOM?
¢ Yourself
of course!
¢ NSA
¢ China
¢ Google
¢ Facebook
¢ PST
¢ Your
pedigree?

25. INHERITANCE OF LIFELOG

26. THE FUTURE – INCORPORATION CORP.
¢ Google
Glass

27. WEARABLES SEEP IN EVERY…WEAR

28. SUMMARY
¢ Wearable
technology and lifelogging is here to
stay
¢ First person perspective logging
¢ Changes our perception of reality
¢ Connects with personal and cultural trace
¢ Will be severely targeted by commercial use and
secret monitoring
¢ Opens the hive mind

29. DISCUSSION
¢ What
would YOU like to get from a wearable?
¢ How do you think these systems will change us?

30. AND THAT’S ALL FOLKS!
¢ Odd-Wiking
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Rahlff,
oddwiking@gmail.com
no.linkedin.com/in/oddwiking/