Personal health dashboards
through Quantified Self apps
Workshop on ICT for Healthy Ageing, Leuven, 14 mei 2013
Erik Duval, Joris Klerkx
Jan Aerts, Andrew vande Moere
http://erikduval.wordpress.com
@ErikDuval
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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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Music
Technology Enhanced
Learning
e-health
Research 2.0
Data visualization at ESAT:
•Opening black box of machine learning algorithms
for gene and variant (mutation) prioritization
•Helping domain experts to identify optimal
parameter settings of automated algorithms
•Identification of structural genomic variation
•Insight in change of gene expression over time in
embryos
professional expert
Visual	
  Analy+cs
• Data	
  visualiza+on	
  =	
  “computer-­‐based	
  system	
  
providing	
  visual	
  representa+ons	
  of	
  datasets	
  
intended	
  to	
  help	
  people	
  carry	
  out	
  some	
  task	
  
more	
  effec+vely”	
  (T.	
  Munzner)
• Visual	
  analy+cs	
  –	
  focuses	
  on	
  suppor+ng	
  analy+cal	
  
reasoning	
  through	
  interac+ve	
  interfaces
• Key:	
  convert	
  cogni+ve	
  task	
  into	
  percep+ve	
  one
• Involves:
–Scalable	
  computa+on	
  &	
  machine	
  learning
–Design	
  and	
  human	
  percep+on
–Domain	
  knowledge	
  (for	
  ESAT:	
  gene+cs	
  &	
  genomics)
• Aims:
–Data	
  explora+on
–Deep	
  insight	
  (e.g.	
  into	
  parameter	
  space	
  of	
  automated	
  
algorithms;	
  “opening	
  the	
  black	
  box”)
–hypothesis	
  genera+on	
  to	
  ini+ate	
  further	
  analysis
Visual	
  encoding
Structural	
  genomic	
  varia+on
Copy	
  number	
  varia+on
Hypothesis	
  genera+on	
  for	
  network	
  analysis
Jan	
  Aerts,
ESAT
jan.aerts@esat.kuleuven.be
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‘consumer’
always connected,
& quantifying everything
https://as-emurgency.appspot.com/
The notification system
PUBLIC DISPLAY SCENARIO
Cardiac arrest happening in
railway station
Patients’ clothes, monitoring his vital
signs, sends out automatic
notification to 112 & all public
infoscreens in the neighbourhood
Message is displayed on infoscreen: “CPR needed on track 6”
Railway Station of Liège-guillemins
quantifying everything
http://quantifiedself.com/
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awareness
(self) reflection
sense making
impact
data
questions
answers
behavior change or
new meaning
participatory design
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http://mume11.snakeflash.com/
http://jlsantoso.blogspot.com/
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evaluation
usable & useful
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#lak% #uc3m% #cgiar% #peno3% #thesis%
supervisors%
#thesis%
students%
#chikul%
Score%
teachers%
students%
perceivedusefulness
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http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph30
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issues
patient empowerment
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reighleblanc/1372176177/
controle
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privacy
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Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt
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Transparency
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http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
@ErikDuval

Personal health dashboards through Quantified Self apps