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WEEK 04: 12 Feb 2018

Reflect: Quant Self as a Service

This week in Quant Humanists, we will look into the service of self-tracking. What do people’s journeys look like through the process of self-tracking? Who are the actors involved? What does engagement look like from the perspective of the product or software company or the quant self community? We will take the services we have been using as examples to understand the “quantified self as a service” and design a service concept around the insights and data we’ve been tracking.

PROGRAM

DISCUSSION:

  • Review of Week 3 Assignments
  • Updates on class’s data collection, positives, pain-points, debugging, and more.
  • Presentation overview service design and personal--->public projects,
  • SLIDES URL

Project Highlight:

Laurie Frick, Frickbits Laurie Frick, FrickBits

STUDIO:

  • Collaborate in groups and with the class on a primer on service design concepts: user journey exercises, concept mapping. Consider how you might model a service around your data, or how you might expand a quant-self project to a quant-community project.

PRACTICE

READINGS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

ASSIGNMENT

For the next two weeks you will use your insights from your personal data tracking, any primary and secondary research, and awareness you've gained so far in the course to deliver a convincing service concept and design. You are encouraged to draw inspiration from some of the critical work we've seen thus far in the course and approach the brief using interdisciplinary perspectives and methods.

You will have 2 weeks to complete this assignment. NOTE: PRESIDENT’S DAY IS OBSERVED NEXT WEEK - NO CLASS ON 19 FEB 2018

Quant Self Service

  • About:
  • Develop a mini service concept around your own personal data.
  • You will:
    • Go through the process of and document creating persona, creating an empathy map, mapping your user journey (experience), sketching your service blueprint, and creating evidence of some of your service touchpoints.
    • State clearly (if possible) the opportunities you've identified based on your research and exercises and follow them through to make a convincing and thoughtful collection of experiences in your service.
    • make tangible some of your service touchpoints (for example paper prototypes, simple sketches, photographs/video). It is encouraged to prototype an aspect of your service or a video showcasing a scenario in which your service might operate to help make your idea more tangible.

You might consider:

  • designing or imagining new ways of tracking your data, visualizing or providing feedback to yourself, or changing your behavior.

  • integrating some current or emerging technologies that might make your service something possible now or in the near future.

  • organizing community based or less technical approaches to build out your service concept.

  • doing some user testing (e.g. testing aspects of your proposed service on yourself) to identify what might actually work.

  • Submission: Submit documentation of your quant self service - including images, graphics, text descriptions, etc - as a Github Gist/blog post link as a comment in its respective github issue in the quant-humanists-2018 repository. See NOTE below.

  • You will present your concept next class, convince us!

Blog Post: Reflection

NOTE: Please structure your blog post submissions according to the assignment template here: Quant Humanist - assignment template

NOTE: PRESIDENT’S DAY IS OBSERVED NEXT WEEK - NO CLASS ON 19 FEB 2018