The Qualified Self Domains

The Amaté platform

Prof. L. SCHLENKERDecember 1st 2014

- Preliminary Draft -

How can you use enterprise technologies for self-

improvement?

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Contexte

I. The Quantified SelfII. The Qualified SelfIII. Managerial Perspective

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The Quantified Self

• Data mediates the experience of

reality.

• Quantimetric self-tracking and

wearable computers

• Quantimetric self-sensing

• Gary Wolf - the Quantified Self

Early prototype of "Quantimetric Self-Sensing" apparatus, 1996 

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The Qualified Self

• Pythagoras of Samos - number is the key to reality

• Immanuel Kant - reality is comprehensible through categories of significance (schemata)

• Martin Heidegger - care of the self before care of others

• Timothy Leary – «turn on, tune in, drop out”

• Steve Mann: - Souveillance vs. Surveillance

QS as way of sharing meaning rather than quantifying the individual?

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Number rules the universe

• The Pythagorean theorem -

• Contributions to philosophy and religion in the late 6th century BC

• The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion

• Time is the soul of this world  - Chronos Father Time

• Number rules the universe - “the dominant form of acceptable evidence in most areas of public life.” 

Pythagoras of Samos

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Can categories make sense?

• The Critique of Pure Reason

• What is the relationship between “thought' and 'sensation' 

• Categories of the understanding from the most formal to the most empirical

• Adapters (rules) by which a category is associated with an impression – quantity, quality, community

• Categories are associated with schemas (Modality/Time) (Quantity/Number)

Immanuel Kant

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The basis of our being is concern

• In-der-Welt-Sein – we live in context

• The common trait of Dasein is the capacity to care

• Concern with the issue of Being – making sense of things

• Awareness of temporality justifies engagement

• « Authentic » existence – self realization

Martin Heidegger

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Turn on, tune in, drop out

• Human Be-in San Francisco 1966

•  Embrace cultural change by detaching yourself from existing conventions

• “Turn on” – activate your mind

• “Tune in” - interact with the world around you

• "Drop Out” - self realization, commitment to mobility, choice and change

• The “PC is today’s LSD” ? Timothy Leary

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Managerial Perspective

Frame

Cloud

Figure (s)

Oracle

Leon Battista Alberti

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The Frame

• A mindset that supports and reinforces our view of work

• To help us put the pieces of our business together into a recognizable whole

• To allow employees and managers alike to think differently about business

• Does IT today provide the appropriate frames?

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”H. Simon 

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The Figures

Obstacles to improving management

• Scorecards are only as good as the underlying data used to calculate them

• They are byproducts of the organizational effectiveness

• Semiology, Syntactics and pragmatics

• Shouldn’t “numbers crunching” require more than insuring that our scorecards are green?

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The Horizon

Management isn't about doing things, it's about getting things done.

Leon Battista Alberti

• The figures provide an open window through which we see our world

• A horizon separates the present from the future

• Processes and projects constitute visual rays that permit us to move forward towards points of convergence

• The manager’s role is visualize what can be done today from will be done tomorrow

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The Oracle

• The Manager/Consultant as a prophet, a message, a technology

• Do experts offer a bridge between a vision and an audience?

• Clear and simple answers vs. rhymes and riddles

• How can information technology influence managerial perspective?

An example of Dasein ?

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Health and Well Being

• Mobile devices and embedded sensors can track heart rate, blood sugar, caloric intake, sleep quality…. .

• Capters can beam data to cloud databases, which send advice to consumers

• There is a real need in health-care to cut down the number of unnecessary medical visits

• Google has funded  23andMe Inc., Fitbit has drawn $43 million from investment firms

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Personal and Group Productivity

•  People have been keeping checklists and to do’s for decades

• Ask the right question and then find the right mix between curiosity and measurable data

• RescueTime led writer Gina Trapani to switch to a standing desk and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg do impose new email rules.

• Mint for tracking where every Euro and cent goes.

• MoodPanda for noting on a simple 1-10 scale how you’re feeling

• PlaceMe, for automated location tracking system

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Education

•  Track what you read – when, what, where you stop, what you highlight, what you annotate

• Track what you write - how many words, how many pages, what and when you write….

• Track how you learn - who you listen to , what you say, how you search….

• Technology can enable real-time feedback• Santa Monica College’s Glass Classroom,

Stanford’s Multimodal Learning Analytics • Do something with what you discover

http://www.edudemic.com/learning-analytics-in-education/

http://glassclassroom.blogspot.fr/2012/12/the-glass-classroom-big-data.html

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• Using data for personal meaning challenge our ideas about human connection

• Social networks like Facebook and Twitter transform our social interactions into quantifiable data streams 

• Social Graph - interactions between people in a social network

• Is it possible to track emotions, passions and memories?

• Could QS help us live together in a sustainable way?

Social Interaction

Will our communities be looking after us, taking care, encouraging us, as well as discipline us? Joerg Blumtritt

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