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A Programmatic Approach to Perfect
Happiness
Quantified Self Meetup Group
August 15, 2012Portland, OR
Amber Casehttp://caseorganic.com/wiki/
@caseorganic
Of all of the newest technologies for finding friends or dating. "I have many friends,
I have a wife" at the end of it all, the person I know least
about is myself.
- Jon Lebkowsky
Example: The SIMS
Example: Harvard Happiness Project
Making the Invisible Visible
Example: Aaron Parecki’s
GPS Map of Portland
Approaching awareness
with technology
Kids are totally and completely
aware
Calm TechnologyMark Weiser
• Calm technology • Actions as buttons• Invisible interfaces• Trigger-based
interactions
Haptic Compass http://www.sensebridge.net
Haptic Location
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Real-time location-based gamingslideshare.net/
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Insomnia at age 4
Watching my dad’s computer + processes
Shutting down the brain
Just like a computer (shut
down)
Then: disk defragmentation
Disk Defragmentation
Fragmentation in Daily Life
Information Junk Food
My Brain Today
I’ve become a Skinnerian Rat
Intermittent reinforcement
Loss of the ability to mentally defragment
Mental DefragmentationMemory compression and sorting
Derek ZumbachAlpha Wave Synchrony
Feedback Machine
Quantified Self
Making the invisible visible
Conclusions and Future
A programmatic approach to perfect happiness?
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