140130 Wearables and Lifelogging

WEARABLE COMPUTING AND LIFELOGGING By Odd-Wiking Rahlff Senior User Experience Designer, Visma Software Int. AS

Presented for Ifi Design, January 30th 2014

AGENDA

¢ The Vision ¢ History ¢ Status ¢ Challenges ¢ The Future ¢ Discussion

VISION OF WEARABLES

¢  (Web)connected electronic gadgets with displays and sensors and actuators that are made to be worn like clothes or accessories.

¢  Interweaves with daily life and activities ¢  ”Bitstream relays”

BUT USED FOR WHAT? ¢  The next cool thing looking for a need?

¢  Self tracking – quantified self – biometrics �  Advanced step counter �  Training assistance �  Fitness and sleep monitor �  …

¢  Life logging �  Photolog �  Places you have been �  Sounds around �  Parasitic on other gadgets

¢  Phone log ¢  Twitterlog ¢  FB-log

¢  Sense augmentation and AR

HISTORY OF A TIMEPIECE

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HISTORY OF WEARABLES AS SUCH

¢  1980s: Steve Mann, MIT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

STATUS FROM CES 2014 SONY SMARTBAND AND CORE FOR LIFELOGGING

OTHER WEARABLE LOGGERS

¢  Jawbone Up ¢ Nike Fuelband ¢ Fitbit tracker ¢ Livescribe Pen

…BUT THERE IS MORE THAN THIS “The bracelet will become available in limited quantities worldwide later this

month. It comes in a striking rose gold colorway, which takes cues from high-end timepieces, with a clasp, bezel and screws manufactured from 316 series stainless steel. The beautifully crafted metal components are then hand-polished to a mirror finish and given a beautiful and extremely durable PVD coating.

The Rose Gold Nike+ FuelBand SE will be available from select retail locations and nike.com beginning November 21, 2013 for a suggested retail price of $169 USD”

SETTING YOUR MARK ON THE TIMELINE

Neanderthal hands, El Castillo, Spain

SAINT-LOUPE-DE-VARENNES, 1826

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

FACES FROZEN IN TIME, 1839

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER JENNY – BORNHOLM 1914

LIFELOGGING 

¢  “The cover story spotlights the controversial practice of lifelogging - the painstaking effort to capture a life in photos, letters, keepsakes, video, audio recordings and more.”

¢ CACM, May 2010

REASONS FOR LOGGING

¢ The frail human memory �  Memory Glasses [deVaul, MIT, 2003] �  Remembrance Agent [Rhodes, 1996] �  MyLifeBits [Gordon Bell]

¢ Self inspection ¢ The Innerverse

THE REVISITED TIMELINE ¢  Leeds, October 1888

�  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQpkIlv_lw

¢  Berlin 1900 �  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

¢  London 1904 �  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8hnCRrGoE

¢  London 1926 �  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M

¢  London revisited �  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kml92pPjx0

E.g. Odd hits, July 6.1962 (27:40)

PERSONAL AND SHARED STORIES

¢ From Big Brother ¢ To “Little Brother”s

Public

Group

Personal

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NEEDS FOR STORAGE ¢  Books (~ 1 MB /book) ¢  All the books in the world - Library of Congress

�  28 mill books �  28 TB

¢  All the Movies in the world 100-200.000 �  Some PB

¢  A logged Life �  100 TB

[Source: G.Bell, 2001. Kahle, 2004]

October 2013: “3D magnetic storage breakthrough enables 100TB+ hard drives”

SEARCHING YOUR LIFELOG…

¢ Words in my talkstream ¢ Places I’ve visited ¢ Along my Timeline ¢ Places my heart raced ¢ Times of joy ¢ … ¢ By active search…

¢ …or by passive �  Contextual triggering

FACEBOOK TIMELINE, SEPTEMBER 2011

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BITSTREAMS

tag

sensor

(s,ID,t,…)

ID

s f(s,ID,t,…)

THE INTERWEAVING OF THE STREAMS

¢  The things we see ¢  The things we see together

¢  ”I feel a great disturbance in the Force”

CHALLENGES

¢ Data integrity and privacy ¢ Fragmented standards ¢ Proprietary walled gardens

�  Apple �  Samsung �  Sony �  …

¢ Battery �  The endless charging cycles

¢ Synchronisation ¢ Data preservation ¢ Usefulness

DATA FOR WHOM?

¢ Yourself of course! ¢ NSA ¢ China ¢ Google ¢ Facebook ¢ PST ¢ Your pedigree?

INHERITANCE OF LIFELOG

THE FUTURE – INCORPORATION CORP.

¢ Google Glass

WEARABLES SEEP IN EVERY…WEAR

SUMMARY

¢ Wearable technology and lifelogging is here to stay

¢ First person perspective logging ¢ Changes our perception of reality ¢ Connects with personal and cultural trace ¢ Will be severely targeted by commercial use and

secret monitoring ¢ Opens the hive mind

DISCUSSION

¢ What would YOU like to get from a wearable? ¢ How do you think these systems will change us?

AND THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

¢ Odd-Wiking Rahlff, �  oddwiking@gmail.com �  no.linkedin.com/in/oddwiking/