Know Myself.
The first Quantified Self conference in Mountain View, CA, exceeded our expectations—and lead to e.g. our collaboration with the BodyTrack project. We are super excited to have registered for this year’s QS conference at Stanford in September and hope to see you there!
Registration is open here.
Being that we love our QS Meetups in NY we were very honored to present at Bay Area Quantified Self—the Quantified Self mothership. Thomas was invited by QS co-founder Gary Wolf after Gary saw his presentation at the Medicine 2.0’11 conference at Stanford in September.
The level of presentations was impressive and it was a pleasure meeting a lot of dedicated QS’ers. We have been inspired by concepts and ideas from QS co-founder Kevin Kelly’s (http://kk.org) “What Technology Wants.” One of the highlights of the evening was that he immediately recognized that Mymee is helping its users to create new senses.
Thanks to Gary Wolf (@agaricus) and WellnessFX (@WellnessFX) for hosting Show&Tell #21.
On the first day of June 2011 we (@mettedyhrberg and @tblomseth) went to our very first NY Quantified Self meetup and gave a presentation on our learnings using Mymee up until that point. Less than four months later Thomas returned as a presenter to give a presentation at the NY Quantified Self Show&Tell #14 called “Debugging My Allergy.” This summer he made an experiment with his grass pollen allergy. Mymee was used to make more than 9000 observations of his bodily state and daily life. The outcome of the experiment was remarkable. For the first time in 30 years Thomas could enjoy the smell of grass without using medication. The presentation was very well received by the engaged crowd that had many good questions. The meetup’s host was the always supportive organizer of NY Quantified Self, Steve Dean (@sgdean).
The Quantified Doctor, Dr. Paul Abramson MD, gave a presentation recently at Quantified Self Silicon Valley on his personal experiments with the paleo diet and finding out why he got headaches. Mymee plays a prominent part in the presentation and has been helpful for Paul in finding out what was causing the headaches.
You can have a look at Paul’s presentation here.
Mymee is represented at Health 2.0 San Francisco by co-founder Mette. Tweet her if you would like to have a chat in Fog City: @mettedyhrberg #mymee
Under the heading The Quant Doctor’s Nightstand Dr. Paul Abramson, M.D., lists his favorite self-tracking tools to date. We are very thrilled that The Quantified Doctor put Mymee as the first item on his list.
We collaborated with Dr. Abramson and the BodyTrack project headed by Anne Wright at Carnegie Mellon University on a self-tracking demonstration project leading up to the Medicine 2.0’11 Stanford conference this past weekend. It was a great experience that will lead to an even better Mymee.
I will be presenting at the Medicine 2.0 conference at Stanford University as part of the “Quantified Self and Self-Tracking Devices Panel and Demonstration” today, Sunday September 18th 3pm-4:30pm.
The topic of the talk is my own experiences with self-tracking and health improvement. I’ve got some very interesting data to show from this summer where my grass pollen allergy exhibited a totally different–and better–behavior than it’s been doing for the last 30 years. I’ll talk about the thinking that went into creating the improvement and how I did it.
I’ll be in the Self-Tracking Lounge outside the main conference hall together with Anne Wright from the BodyTrack project and Paul Abramson, The Quantified Doctor.
If you’re in Silicon Valley you can atttend the session by signing up to this Eventbrite event: http://med2.eventbrite.com/
Please come and join us!
Mymee is under development and the concept is changing week by week. Our primary idea hasn’t changed, though: it is to challenge the way we normally see health and to regard the human body as the very complex system it really is. Conventional medicine often tries to label conditions, whereas we believe that the only way to understand and cure conditions is to see the whole system as one. Our approach is systemic and build upon our own successes with tracking causes to allergies and in general improving the quality of our own lives.
The Mymee tool is being designed to provide the users with a history of their own observations and make it easier to build a mental image of how their bodies react to a certain way of life. Mymee is build to tracking and making visible causes and effects – not trying to tell you how to live, but showing you how the way you live affects you. Also, by making you more observant, the mere use of Mymee will on its own improve your understanding of your body and mind.
Working prototypes of Mymee are being tested on ourselves and dozens of other people to work out how to make this tool efficient in use but effective in impact.