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Videos from Hack Yourself: Measuring Wellbeing

A full break down of the NESTA event can be found here.

My panel talk “ ”Sharing brain and body signals, a view to application development”

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Panel Speaker – Hack Yourself: Measuring Wellbeing – May 3rd

I’m a panel speaker at the upcoming NESTA Hot topic event on “Hack Yourself Measuring: Wellbeing” in London on May 3rd.  If your interested in talking about the Body Blogger project or Physiological Computing in general while I’m around drop me an e-mail.

Click here for event details.

Media Blowout

Trying to find free time to write something is always somewhat of an uphill challenge. In the meantime here a few links about my recent meanderings, enjoy!

• Interview in ACM XRDS Crossroads on EEG setups.

• Podcast by LJMU OpenLabs on Physiological Computing (for the transcript click here).

• Video presentation of my Quantified Self Europe talk - Lessons from a year of heart rate data.

• Photo series from BodyLab a business innovation event ran in-conjunction with LJMU Openlabs.

Reflections on Quantified Self Europe

Cross posted on PhysiologicalComputing.net

Last month I attended the inaugural Quantified Self Europe conference over in Amsterdam. I was there to present a follow-up talk to one I gave back in 2010 at Quantified Self London in which I described my experiences in tracking my heart rate along with publishing it in real-time over the Internet.

The Body Blogger system as it became known, after a term Steve came up with back in 2009, was only really intended to be used to demonstrate what could be done with the BM-CS5 heart monitors we’d recently purchased. As these devices allowed wireless real-time streaming of multiple heart rate monitors to a single PC there was a number of  interaction projects we wanted to try out and using web services to manage the incoming data and provide a platform for app development seemed the best choice to realise our ideas (see here and here for other stuff we’ve used The Body Blogger engine for).
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Reflections on Quantified Self London

I was in London last month to attend the inaugural meeting of the Quantified Self London group set-up by Dennis Harscoat and Adriana Lukas. For those of you unfamilar with the Quantified Self (QS), it’s a community of self-trackers (i.e. people who monitor aspects of their life) who are interested in what they can learn about themselves (more info about QS here). The community usually gets together periodically over in the US (where the group orignally started) to discuss their latest projects (e.g. what are they tracking, what tools do they use, what did they learn about themselves) and has recently gone global with QS groups popping up all over the place.

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