h(app)athon committee meeting1_prep
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This is the informational deck for the H(app)athon Committee to decide which direction we'll go to prepare the Experiment portion of the Project.TRANSCRIPT
The H(app)athon CommitteeA Direction for Big Data Meeting One - Preparation Deck
Why Wersquore Here
The World Doesnrsquot Know How to Measure Happiness
Thatrsquos why wersquore here Everyone on this Committee is dedicated to helping people improve their well-being in one form or another Some of us are technology experts some are happinesswell-being experts and some have unique skills that complement these themes
Our goal is to see if we can find a simple way to help people measure and report their well-being using mobile technology or other tools Whether we create a H(app)y Index an app or have a different outcome the results of our work will hopefully tell a compelling story to inspire and educate
Introduction
This presentation is designed as a pre-read for our first call
Committee Members are asked only to join three conference calls over the course of three-four months
Participation beyond those calls is welcome in Working Groups but not required There is no fiscal requirement for the Committee
Hyperbole-cious
Our first call together is about dreaming big
Is it audacious to think we can create an Experiment that measures well-being around multiple metrics via mobile tools Yup Is there standardization around Big Data Quantified Self Augmented Reality the science of HappinessWell-Being or how we could implement such an Experiment No
So letrsquos celebrate this challenge with this amazing group of people and use this first call to be aspirational explorative and perchance even unrealistic
As a reminder a primary objective of this Experiment is to create Awareness around these issues so letrsquos not get caught up in specific methodologies or implementation
At least until Call Two
Guiding Principles for H(app)athon -Live an Examined Life -Big Data Needs Direction
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Why Wersquore Here
The World Doesnrsquot Know How to Measure Happiness
Thatrsquos why wersquore here Everyone on this Committee is dedicated to helping people improve their well-being in one form or another Some of us are technology experts some are happinesswell-being experts and some have unique skills that complement these themes
Our goal is to see if we can find a simple way to help people measure and report their well-being using mobile technology or other tools Whether we create a H(app)y Index an app or have a different outcome the results of our work will hopefully tell a compelling story to inspire and educate
Introduction
This presentation is designed as a pre-read for our first call
Committee Members are asked only to join three conference calls over the course of three-four months
Participation beyond those calls is welcome in Working Groups but not required There is no fiscal requirement for the Committee
Hyperbole-cious
Our first call together is about dreaming big
Is it audacious to think we can create an Experiment that measures well-being around multiple metrics via mobile tools Yup Is there standardization around Big Data Quantified Self Augmented Reality the science of HappinessWell-Being or how we could implement such an Experiment No
So letrsquos celebrate this challenge with this amazing group of people and use this first call to be aspirational explorative and perchance even unrealistic
As a reminder a primary objective of this Experiment is to create Awareness around these issues so letrsquos not get caught up in specific methodologies or implementation
At least until Call Two
Guiding Principles for H(app)athon -Live an Examined Life -Big Data Needs Direction
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Introduction
This presentation is designed as a pre-read for our first call
Committee Members are asked only to join three conference calls over the course of three-four months
Participation beyond those calls is welcome in Working Groups but not required There is no fiscal requirement for the Committee
Hyperbole-cious
Our first call together is about dreaming big
Is it audacious to think we can create an Experiment that measures well-being around multiple metrics via mobile tools Yup Is there standardization around Big Data Quantified Self Augmented Reality the science of HappinessWell-Being or how we could implement such an Experiment No
So letrsquos celebrate this challenge with this amazing group of people and use this first call to be aspirational explorative and perchance even unrealistic
As a reminder a primary objective of this Experiment is to create Awareness around these issues so letrsquos not get caught up in specific methodologies or implementation
At least until Call Two
Guiding Principles for H(app)athon -Live an Examined Life -Big Data Needs Direction
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Committee Members are asked only to join three conference calls over the course of three-four months
Participation beyond those calls is welcome in Working Groups but not required There is no fiscal requirement for the Committee
Hyperbole-cious
Our first call together is about dreaming big
Is it audacious to think we can create an Experiment that measures well-being around multiple metrics via mobile tools Yup Is there standardization around Big Data Quantified Self Augmented Reality the science of HappinessWell-Being or how we could implement such an Experiment No
So letrsquos celebrate this challenge with this amazing group of people and use this first call to be aspirational explorative and perchance even unrealistic
As a reminder a primary objective of this Experiment is to create Awareness around these issues so letrsquos not get caught up in specific methodologies or implementation
At least until Call Two
Guiding Principles for H(app)athon -Live an Examined Life -Big Data Needs Direction
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Hyperbole-cious
Our first call together is about dreaming big
Is it audacious to think we can create an Experiment that measures well-being around multiple metrics via mobile tools Yup Is there standardization around Big Data Quantified Self Augmented Reality the science of HappinessWell-Being or how we could implement such an Experiment No
So letrsquos celebrate this challenge with this amazing group of people and use this first call to be aspirational explorative and perchance even unrealistic
As a reminder a primary objective of this Experiment is to create Awareness around these issues so letrsquos not get caught up in specific methodologies or implementation
At least until Call Two
Guiding Principles for H(app)athon -Live an Examined Life -Big Data Needs Direction
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Guiding Principles for H(app)athon -Live an Examined Life -Big Data Needs Direction
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Contents
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
bull Introduction
bull Committee List
bull The Opportunity
bull The Challenge
bull What Wersquoll Do
bull Technology Reviewbull Quantified Selfbull Internet of ThingsBig Data bull Augmented Reality
bull GNHScience of Happiness Review
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Committee List
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Committee Members (as of 10122012)
John C Havens (Chair Founder) Founder Transitional Media Author H(app)y - The Value of Well Being in the Digital Economy (TarcherPenguin 2014) Contributing writer for MashableDavid Richeson Chief Digital Officer Kaplow PR Davids blog - 360DegreeSuccessHoward Greenstein President Harbrooke GroupJoshua Middleman Director of Partnerships Ashoka ChangemakersLaura Musikanski Co-Founder The Happiness InitiativeStewart Townsend Head Business Development at DataSiftKat Houghton Co-founder amp Research Director at ilimivuErnesto Ramirez Community Organizer Quantified SelfAmber Melhouse Director Business Development at Rakuten LinkShare CorporationStan Stalnaker Founding Director Hub Culture LTD Creator of VEN currencyJP Rangaswami Chief Scientist Salesforce JPs blog - Confused of CalcuttaJohn Clippinger Founder ID3 Executive Director MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics GroupTim Leberecht CMO frog Tims blog - ElektronikerEiji Han Shimizu Producer Happy the movieNic Marks Founder Centre for Well-Being at NEF Author The Happiness Manifesto (TED)Jonathan Hall United Nations Development ProgramScott L David Executive Director Law Technology and Arts Group at the University of WashingtonWilliam Hoffman Director World Economic Forums Telecommunications Industry Group
Thanassis Rikakis Vice Provost Design Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
The Opportunity
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
1) Raise awareness on the science and benefits of GNHwell-being
2) Raise awareness on how emerging technology affects identity
3) Provide an Experiment for people to test these metrics
4) Proactively promote results as goal-setting recommendations for government NGO and private sectors to improve their lives and the world at large
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
The Challenge
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
1) No universal standards for the measurement of well-beinghappiness
2) No universal standards for QS IOT or Big Data
3) Adoption of appsnew behavior is challenging
4) This type of Experiment is new and some fear change
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
What Wersquoll Do
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
The information that follows is offered as a teaching tool for our first Committee Call It is general in nature and designed to get us all on the same page for our discussions
Irsquove created a survey to get everyonersquos initial thoughts on various issues but by and large our work will likely take us on one of three general paths
1 High ConceptTop Down Our Experiment generates data that could help inform policy of some kind at some level
2 CrowdsourcedBottom Up Our Experiment gets a number of people testing to generate in-the-field results
3 A combination of 1 and 2
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Technology Review
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Quantified SelfQS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf of WIRED It refers to the practice of measuring behavior in an effort to better understand onersquos health sleep or other traits that can be tracked
For our purposes there are numerous existing apps that measure well-being or moodhappiness We could incorporate these into our Experiment or test them to see which would best dovetail with our work
Note for any partner we reach out to we will feature their work as thanks for their participation in our Project
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical Mood Diary and compare it to others
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Quantified SelfSaga tracks and learns your behavior Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are pushed to social networks
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Quantified SelfThe Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you personalize information about yourself via a lush visual format and see others like you in the world
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Quantified SelfIlimivu is a patient-centered software platform designed to capture rich multimodal behavioral streams through user engagement
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Internet of Things Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams converging without a common metric of measurement The two trends are often compared as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Internet of Things This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and growth of the Internet of things by 2020
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Big Data
This graphic created by Cloud Tweaks gives a sense of how much information is transmitted via big data
The numbers you see here were estimates based on activity during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen Visual markers cue images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality or what some call the ldquoOuternetrdquo (as compared to the Internet) Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Augmented RealityViewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial recognition technology and Augmented Reality Hold your phone up to someonersquos face see their latest post Combined with Googlersquos Project Glass (inset) this means people can put down phones and track others in real time This tracking could also include moods and well-being Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people framed by a color showing their mood or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
GNHThe Science of Happiness
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of success based largely on fiscal wealth While the metrics around GNH and their implementation in Bhutan are being challenged this concept of raising the economic and holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed the concept of GDP was flawed In his speech delivered at the University of Kansas in 1968 he said the following
ldquoToo much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material thingsYet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children the quality of their education or the joy of their play It measures everything in short except that which makes living worthwhilerdquo
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think you canrsquot measure happiness The emotional state of happiness may be fleeting and subjective but the metrics around well-being and ldquoflourishingrdquo have quantitative and scientific methodologies for data collection
The results of a survey conducted by The Happiness Initiative demonstrate ten areas of Happiness measured via objective survey data
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
The Happy Planet Index
Itrsquos not all about you
Happiness and well-being need to be perceived as economic indicators of success especially in regards to our planet Not including metrics in regards to well-being and the environment means not considering the best use of resources or planning effectively for the future
The Happy Planet Index created by Nic Marks for the New Economics Foundation ranked 151 countries for its 2012 report and ldquomeasuresthe extent to which countries deliver long happy sustainable lives for the people who live in them and uses global data on life expectancy experienced well being and Ecological Footprintrdquo for their calculations
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
The Happy Movie
Self-awareness is a key to happiness say the scientists and other experts interviewed for the award-winning documentary Happy Money however is not As noted in an interview in Forbes with director Roko Belic
ldquoIncome has risen steadily over the last 50 years but happiness has not Researchers say making $50000 a year versus $50 million will not greatly impact happiness levels lsquoI was culturally trained to believe in certain truths and laws good grades lead to a prestigious college which leads to a high-paying job a nice house and ultimate happinessrsquo says Belic lsquoIrsquove been trained to focus on the wrong thingsrsquordquo The film documents ways that this training can be reversed in multiple ways including exercise gratitude and compassion
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
Thank youYour time on this Project means a great deal
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens
More Information wwwhappathoncom(917) 597-3323johnchavens