Under Sousveillance: Personal Informatics & Techniques of the Self
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A talk for Defrag 2008. Just starting to think about all the great work people like Jones & Coates have been doing.
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Under sousveillance: personal informatics & techniques of the self
bnasr
Are we too infatuated with the present?
The past is not dead.Itʼs not even past.
bullet time apps for data
The strategic idea of the archive
is arefreshed now.
What happens when we help people make invisible life patterns
visible?
watching you watch yourself
Blame Coates & Jones
ClickstreamsLocationTaste dataStatus updatesSocial connectionsPhotos/writing/bookmarkingFinancial dataEmail/phone/SMS/IMSmart objectsExternal sources
Where is the Kayak for my life?
“People check their stats like crack addled gerbils.”
Matt Mullenweg
* Discovery* Wayfinding* Validation* Analytics* Documentation
It should be ambient.
It should be visual.
It should be ubiquitous.
It should create a dialog between the self and the group.
“Information processing dissolving
into behavior.”
“Everyware is always situated in a particular context.”
“The appeal of everyware is at some level universal.”
Caveats:* Making explicit what was latent* Need to see the beautiful seams* Interconnection brings emergent, unexpected consequences* We donʼt know the privacy issues yet* Avoid the ʻset upʼ problem* Managing ongoing user expectations* Structure v. experimentation
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