User Interface Optimization for Quantified Self

Self-tracking has expanded exponentially in an era defined by the ubiquitous presence of wearable technologies and smart devices. From health and fitness to finances and productivity, these devices empower users to delve into their quantified self (QS) through an almost infinite amount of visualizations. However, a user has limited time to...

Health 2050: faster cure via bioinformatics and quantified self; a design analysis

Four areas make up 75% of our healthcare costs: cardio-, onco-, neuro- and metabolic diseases. These are largely preventable, even reversible. Instead, they are currently often ‘managed’ and made chronic, not cured. This is too costly. Research is showing new opportunities for enhancing our body’s self-repair in a matter of hours or days. Our...

Is Google making us smart? Health self-management for high performance employees and organisations

Globally, the burden of disease is rising. High performance employees and organisations need to improve their health self-management options and skills. Unfortunately, there are an overwhelming number (> 500,000) of new health publications every year. We aim to design a health AI on top of Scholar Google, to support rapid employee do-it...

Expanding the Quantified-Self: To optimize performance of knowledge workers and to minimize burnout risk

Burnouts are a severe, negative consequence of lacking performance management within firms and a result of a disbalance between energy input (e.g: sleep, social activities, physical activity) and output (e.g: workload, anxiety on the job, caring for a kid) Burnouts lead to employment challenges for firms, resulting in a potential threat for the...

Health Literature Hybrid AI for Health Improvement: A Design Analysis for Diabetes & Hypertension

Increasingly, front runner patients and practitioners want to use state-of-the-art science for rapid lifestyle based cure of diseases of affluence. However, the number of new health studies per year (>500.000) is overwhelming. How to quickly assess state-of-the-art and use new opportunities for rapid patient DIY (Do-It-Yourself) health...

Platformization of data sharing: Multi-party computation (MPC) as control mechanism and its effect on firms' participation in data sharing via data marketplaces

Data sharing facilitated by data marketplaces enable companies to generate meaningful insights and discover new opportunities. However, enterprises are reluctant to share data over platforms due to lack of trust, fear of losing control over data and concerns regarding privacy violations. Multi-party computation (MPC) is a cryptographic technique...

Personalized support for well-being at work: an overview of the SWELL project

Recent advances in wearable sensor technology and smartphones enable simple and affordable collection of personal analytics. This paper reflects on the lessons learned in the SWELL project that addressed the design of user-centered ICT applications for self-management of vitality in the domain of knowledge workers. These workers often have a...

Stimulating Creative Dialogues between Humans & Things: DIY in the age of the IoT

Expressing creativity answers to fundamental human needs such as Autonomy, Competence and Self-Esteem (Sheldon, Elliot et al. 2001). However, as industrialisation caused the first consumer revolution, passive consumption of mass-produced objects became the norm. A contemporary response to this passive consumption can be found in an increasingly...

Applying the Quantified Self trend to support Ahold's plans of focusing on customers' health

People are increasingly tracking all kinds of aspects about themselves. For example: modern smartphones can recognise whether the user is walking, running or cycling, and estimates the amount of burned calories. The upcoming smartwatches will be able to measure the user’s heart rate. When the smartphone is placed underneath the pillow, it...