By using web-services and computational devices we pile up data about various aspects of our lives. Notions such as the Internet of Things suggest that all things around us will soon be producing data. Others might use this data to sell us more stuff but how will we relate to our quantified selves? What impact will this mass quantification have on our private lives? How does obsessive self-tracking influence our physical and mental health? What might happen if we apply methods of pseudo objectification, which we know from business to the everyday? Will we use the same kind of predictive modeling currently used in areas such as marketing, risk management and climate research? How much do we believe in computational predictions and how many decisions do we want to delegate to machines?
This application provides ‘predictions’ based on personal data, giving a glimpse at what might appear if we start feeding our personal data streams into predictive computer models. It connects to a users Facebook account and utilises real data to generate a personalised ‘future report’ which can then be posted back to Facebook or (in the show context) be taken away as a printout.
Position Paper for Personal Informatics Workshop at ACM CHI 2011
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