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Boost your wellbeing and happiness with the explore app program SMILE!
Too much workload, stress and ultimately the burnout - that's how many people see their everyday life. One way to handle the negative aspects of daily routines is to make it to the weekend (TGIF), another is to go on vacation. Whereas the first tactic is easy to...
Big Data Product Development – The Datarella Interview
Today, we speak with Joerg Blumtritt (JB), CEO and Co-founder of Datarella, about product development based on Big Data. Q What is so special about product development based on Big Data? JB Big Data is not so much about technology, it's more about letting go your...
Call for Data Fiction
DATA FICTION - THE STORIES BEHIND THE DATA Do you read science fiction? Can you make data interesting? Can you tell the story behind a pool of data? Are you a data fictionista? Submit your data fiction. People, animals, plants and things produce data - a lot of data....
Cyborgs and Transhumanism
"The most human thing about us is our technology." McLuhan "I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology." is how Neil Harbison relates himself to the technology, that he built to enhance his senses:...
Sympathy with Machines
"Of course, robots are a common sight these days." "She's - she'w not like a machine. She's like a person. A living person. But after all, she's much more complex than any other kind. She has to be." Philip K. Dick, Nanny Our perception of the world is a tricky thing....
“Mobile Data: Under the Hood”
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, like geo-location, gyroscope, accelerometer, or even the magnetic flux. We also discuss the...
Vitamin D – the happiness factor you are in control of
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 risk for vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin, but it also occurs in some...
Want to be happy? SMILE!
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 other wants to know what people value and the latter...
Data Courtesy
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 reached again. The end: the terror - the most uncourtly form of social cohabition. "Privacy invasion is...
Could we learn all about behavior change by simply applying some makeup?
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 Behavioral Change at the Bristol Business School. Our curious and engaged crowd...
Another citizen science project: Monitoring ecological change with smartphones
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 on this blog (e.g. here,...
Tracking Scents and Long-Term Memories
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 to places than to their masters, so people say. Although I doubt that this is...