Selftracking - a new trend based on U-CEP?

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It seems, U-CEP might help a new trend of a so called selftracking - Business Intelligence for your own body, CEP-based and in real-time would be the enhanced idea:

http://www.silicon.de/lifestyle/auch-da ... oerper.htm
(sorry, you must use your translation system:-( )

Crazy? or an idea?

Actually this was also a use case from our EASSy-project proposal last winter, in connection with Maccabi as one of the biggest health care organisation in Israel, for a better, more autonomous life e.g. for diabetes patients.

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Andrea Gaggioli (unicatt.it) wrote an interesting posting via BioMedTown (http://forum.complexevents.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=303) 29 April 2011:

A related concept to Physio-environmental sensing and live modelling is psycho-physiological self-tracking. Conceptually, this approach was developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Reed Larson in 1983, much before the advent of personal informatics. They created a paper-and-pencil methodology, called Experience Sampling Method (ESM), which requires participants to fill out multiple brief questionnaires about their current activities and feelings by responding to random alerts throughout the day. ESM has been used effectively with adolescent and adult populations for decades to understand areas such as mood, social interactions and time use. This approach has also proven to be helpful in defining therapeutic interventions that are optimally suited for an individual patient.
Used in combination with physiological and contextual measures, computerized version of the ESM may provide a powerful tool to study person-environment interactions. Researchers interested in experimenting with this approach, but lacking programming skills, can use MyExperience (http://myexperience.sourceforge.net/), a BSD-licensed open source mobile data collection tool developed for Windows Mobile devices. MyExperience allows the combination of sensing and self-report to collect both quantitative and qualitative data on experience and activity. The beta release of MyExperience supports 50 built-in sensors including GPS, GSM-based motion sensors and device usage information. The sensor events themselves can be used to trigger custom actions such as to initiate wireless database synchronization, send SMS messages to the research team and/or present in situ self-report surveys. Other external sensors (i.e. physiological) can be added via MyExperience plug-in architecture. MyExperience can also be used for designing innovative cybertherapies. For example, Dr. Margaret Morris from the Digital Health Group at Intel and colleagues from Oregon Health and Sciences and Columbia University have recently developed and tested a mobile phone application for mood reporting, which also provides therapeutic exercises for cognitive reappraisal and physical relaxation (M. E. Morris et al, Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for Emotional Self-Awareness, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 12(2):e10, 2010). In summary, self-tracking is an emerging trend in personal informatics, with potentially interesting applications in the fields of cyberpsychology and cybertherapy. However, more research is needed to determine the real benefits (and risks) of this approach.

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Andrea Gaggioli, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Italy, has joint our 4th edBPM/U-CEP workshop at ServiceWave'11 as co-organizer and wrote:

"Our project (http://www.interstress.eu) is currently developing an EMA application for Windows mobile and Android, which integrates the collection of experience data (through psychological self-report surveys), physiological data (through a wireless ECG platform equipped with a tri-axis accelerometer) and contextual data (i.e. location, temperature, noise, etc as collected by the sensors embedded in the smartphone).

The app synchs with a remote server which analyzes the data, identifies significant events, and provides the user with personal reports through interactive visualizations. We are in the process of testing this approach for the continuous measure of psychological stress in natural settings, and early results are promising.

We are very interested in exploring new collaboration opportunities in this research field, as we strongly believe in the potential of self-tracking and personal health systems."

Our edBPM/U-CEP workshop will also discuss Future & Emerging Technologies and product visions for the telco industry or what such concepts have to do with the telco domain.

You can follow the current state of the ongoing planning of the workshop under the link
http://forum.complexevents.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=313

[rainer93138]

The actual challenge will be U-CEP and the modelling of accordant complex events:

"...The self-tracking movement uses already uses wireless sensing devices and smart phones to track food intake and fitness, but a new generation of apps also tracks mood, migraines, and other factors.

There are signs that self-tracking is catching the interest of mainstream healthcare..."

http://www.kurzweilai.net/is-self-tracking-the-secret-to-living-better?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7999713212-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

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http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37784/
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37858/

In the future perhaps some U-CEP colleagues like to become entrepreneurs?

As mentioned viewtopic.php?f=13&t=252#p1182, these might also be nice ideas for telecommunication companies which are reinventing themselves at present.

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Nearly 8 of out 10 Americans are willing to pay up to $100 for a medical device that monitors their vital signs, according to an IBM survey that tracks trends in the use of mobile devices in healthcare. Fewer than 10% of respondents are paying out-of-pocket charges for such devices today, but more than one-third expect to do so within the next two years.

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/gbe03398usen/GBE03398USEN.PDF

As mentioned in our other postings we would do it still better based on U-CEP in the future and we already sketched it in the project proposal EASSy (Event-driven Adaptivity of Services-based Systems) with the Maccabi use case for diabetes patients. And this was the meeting where we had convinced IBM's Opher Etzion to take the unloved coordinator role nobody likes http://www.citt-online.com/index.php?id=veranstaltungen&id3=haifa09&id4=more. This was actually a nice proposal for the European FP7/call 5, with a strong consortium IMO, but nobody can predict the judgment of anonymous evaluators who decided - as far as I remember: "... there are doubts that the consortium intends to continue to realize the idea after the end of the EU funded project ... overestimated effort ...". It was a pity after 5 years preparation time since 2006 and as we see they have continued...

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... perhaps left too early right now?

http://www.silicon.de/management/b2b/0,39044010,41554429,00/totenschein_fuer_google_health_und_powermeter.htm

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The German Telecom and a Swiss company Quentiq start an online service in early 2012 that allows you to measure fitness and health, also via your smartphone. The service calculates the individual vitality based on sport behaviour and physical health values.

http://www.silicon.de/technologie/mobil ... itness.htm

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See more viewtopic.php?f=13&t=299#p1355

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Quantified Self: Apps for your self-knowledge and your future health self-management

Now it's just a hype:
http://vimeo.com/31566291
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/de//id/966
http://healthgeek.tv/futurehealth-san-diego/

There are lot of similar reports and broadcasts in the last weeks like
http://www.zeit.de/2012/07/WOS-Quantified-Self
http://www.silicon.de/technologie/softw ... nntnis.htm

Also university theses, already since a while like
http://www.shifz.org/chris/diplomarbeit.pdf

The German Quantified Self movement is coordinated by the 31-year-old Munich-based product manager Florian Schumacher, who is also responsible for the website QSDeutschland http://qsdeutschland.de/. Quantified Self is busy with the analytical introspection, it says. "Whether health data such as weight or blood pressure, the emotional state or personal financial flows, it is always a question of the considered area to capture as accurately as possible and to better understand through analysis."

This will become very much more intelligent in the future via an U-CEP based Exocortex as we will do it with our BioMedCEP or uCepCortex projects viewtopic.php?f=13&t=316&start=70#p1373 because we would have to correlate the event sources and real-time measures and to trigger (bio) or emergency processes or automatic treatment processes depending on the monitored parameters.