This document discusses capacity planning and personal informatics. It includes quotes from several people discussing how personal data is undervalued and challenging to capture, how adding sensor data does not necessarily provide more context, and how a focus on implementation details can limit imagination. The document also includes the author's notes and reflections on their personal data and links to related resources.

1. Capacity planning for meaning
in the age of personal informatics
Aaron Straup Cope
Design Engaged 2008

2. “We should be mapping information that in
some ways has been historically
unmappable because it is 1) not valued or
is 2) actively seen as threatening or is 3)
simply too hard to map using traditional
tools.”
Anselm Hook

3. “It is this narrow definition of context that
makes life harder for ourselves, because
adding more and more sensor readings is
not really the same thing as adding more
and more context.”
Dawn Nafus

4. “Your focus on implementation details is
limiting your imagination.”
Kellan Elliott-McCrea

5. Hi, my name is Aaron

6. No, really

7. Aa is for Alphabetical

8. 08:08 AM

9. 08:31 AM

10. 08:36 AM

11. 1,269 clicks. 28 minutes.

12. Kill me now

13. Ubiquitous

14. The future was 20 minutes ago

15. Information wants to be seen

16. Based on a true story

17. Translation: OMG

18. Translation: WTF

19. Translation: STFU

20. But what does it mean?

21. Capacity planning

22. But is it art?

23. I/O is fancy-talk for In-n-Out

24. Ceci nʼest pas un bar chart

25. WALTERIN UR BENJAMINZ

26. Itʼs a good problem to have

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2566161300/
http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2008-September/005594.html
http://blogs.intel.com/research/2008/03/dawn_nafus_add_gps_and_stir_so.php
http://www.laughingmeme.org/
08:08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mishu/2791606756
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/504954422
08:31
08:36
JONESFIELD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/2593401848/
KILL ME NOW
OMG ! A PICTURE THATʼS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED ON THE INTERNETS BEFORE!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njrzVU1r8s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2696830709/
LIFEʼS RICH PAGEANT
OMG
WTF
STFU
http://stamen.com/clients/indigital
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/velocity2008-capacity-management1-484676
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pstar/397375505/ (used w/permission)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2623018714/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luiscolan/260411037/ (used w/permission)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellan/2900547100
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2380695585/
See also: http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/polite-pertinent-and-pretty-designing-for-the-newwave-of-
personal-informatics-493301
http://www.aaronland.info/talks/