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Quantified Self

Quantified Self. Ethnography of a Digital Culture. Who am I?. Anthropologist Study of cultures Fieldwork in Belize , Ecuador , Silicon Valley Not like Indiana Jones Informatician Study of information Specialization in Human-Computer Interaction Not related to magicians. Motivation.

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Quantified Self

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  1. Quantified Self Ethnography of a Digital Culture

  2. Who am I? • Anthropologist • Study of cultures • Fieldwork in Belize, Ecuador, Silicon Valley • Not like Indiana Jones • Informatician • Study of information • Specialization in Human-Computer Interaction • Not related to magicians

  3. Motivation • Data is fascinating • Our lives are increasinglydata-driven • We know relatively little aboutthis culture

  4. What is Quantified Self? • Genetics • Fitness • Sleep • Nutrition • Finance • Cognition

  5. What is Quantified Self? • Genetics • Fitness • Sleep • Nutrition • Finance • Cognition • Big Data

  6. So Quantified Self is… Kind of everything. Sorry, that’s not very helpful.

  7. Some Literature • Historical background • Censuses • Public Science • Reddit • Health • Genome sequencing

  8. Some Literature • Gamification • Competitive steps • Algorithmic Living • Data-driven life • Quantified Other • Comparative analytics • Big Data • City-scale data

  9. Quantified Self, the Culture • Private and Public • Digital • Private and Public • Digital and Analog • Self-scrutinizing • Democratizing • Private • Digital

  10. Methods • Interviewing • Content analysis • Participant-observation • Jawbone UP • Withings Scale • Mint • Last.fm • 23andMe • Pocket • Runkeeper

  11. Findings • Quasi-quantitative • Obvious insights

  12. Findings (cont.) • Self-awareness • Analysis vs. capture • “Aggregate later” • “Free” data • Hacking the self

  13. Conclusions • Data rights • Visualization • Empiricism

  14. Discussion & Further Research • Quantified Other • Big Data

  15. (partial) Acknowledgements • The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program • The Anthropology honors thesis cohort • Dr. Judith Gregory • The Evoke Lab • Dr. Tom Boellstorff

  16. Questions? Comments? • Contact me: • Email: alkhatia@uci.edu • Twitter: @alialkhatib_ • Web: http://ali-alkhatib.com

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