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The slides of our talk at Munich DataGeeks Meetup: “A smartphone is a mighty array of sensors. How to access the data, and get meaningful information from the various readings, […]

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Do you know your Vitamin D level? Did you know that your Vitamin D Level has a great influence on your wellbeing? Living in northern Europe or Canada, you are at […]

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What unites poets, philosophers, psychologists, neurologists and economists? They all are interested in what makes us happy. Sure, they have their distinct perspectives: one is interested in people’s feelings, the […]

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Picture above: The court of Louis XVI is regared as the ecstasy of courtesy. Esprit, the bon-mot and the courtly attire had been overdone to an extend never to be […]

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At the Quantified Self Conference 2014 in Amsterdam, I attended a breakout session with the promising title “The Future Of Behavior Change”, moderated by Lukasz Piwek, a Research Fellow in […]

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Image above: Nerds for Nature setting up #morganfire01. Licenced under CC-BY-SA 2.0 Mobile citizen science – people jointly contributing to research with their smartphones – has been a frequent topic […]

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Image above: Our olfactory sense and our long-term memories are tied together. To track places lost, I have collected boxes; the smell inside triggers my memory. Cats are more attached […]

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The diagram above shows the development of the frontooccipital circumference of a child’s head. We measure the growth of our children to track their healthy development. Only with the context […]

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During the weekend of May 10-12, 250 students, scientists, artists, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs gathered at the Quantified Self Conference #qseu14 in Amsterdam, the fifth conference of its kind and […]

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Welcome To The Matrix –  The Next Gen Of Software Agents

Welcome To The Matrix – The Next Gen Of Software Agents

Last October during the Outlier Ventures Diffusion Hackathon, we built a Proof of Concept of a Parking Agent System - Effortless Parking, which could solve the coordination problem of parking in crowded cities. In this post, we will look at the individual components...