quantified self

A growing range of cheap consumer gadgets are providing data for the 'quantified self'.

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Last weekend 260 delegates gathered in Amsterdam to share their experiences at the first Quantified Self Europe conference.

Gary Wolf, co-founder of the Quantified Self movement, explains its objectives in a TEDtalk.

As part of the Quantified Self movement, the Fuelband allows the wearer to track their physical activity, steps taken daily, and amount of calories burned.

This driving force is exemplified by the movement known as the quantified self, which used digital devices to monitor self-parameters such as weight, activity, sleep, diet, etc.

He is also sequencing his genome and co-organizes the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup Group.

In 2007, with Kevin Kelly, Wolf co-founded the Quantified Self, a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self-knowledge through self-tracking.

Runtastic is an international mobile fitness company that combines traditional fitness with mobile applications, social networking and elements of gamification as a logical reaction to the Quantified Self movement.

Video: TED Steve Dean of product innovation studio Prehype and organiser of the New York Quantified Self group, told conference participants about Asthmapolis, a system on which he worked as a designer.

The term "quantified self" appears to have been proposed by Wired Magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in 2007 as "a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking."

Welcome to the sometimes wacky and often intriguing world of the Quantified Self, an eclectic band of hackers, geeks, fitness freaks, patients and early adopters that, from its birth in California in 2008, has grown into a global movement of more than 5,000 members in 11 countries.

Gary Wolf, a journalist and co-founder of the Quantified Self movement, argues that the combination of the proliferation of small, cheap sensors, portable computing and the emergence of social media is bringing about profound shifts that are laying the groundwork for self-quantification to enter the mainstream.