Jun 25, 2018Designing for Persuasion — How to Design Businesses that LastHow do products become ‘sticky’? How do ad campaigns go ‘viral’? What differentiates genuinely successful businesses from those that fail? The meetup group ‘Design Thinkers’ has run a series of talks and workshops on persuasive design, in Dublin over the last year. …Behavior Change3 min readBehavior Change3 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·Jun 14, 2018The Worlds Most Advanced Standalone Sleep Tracking App — Interview with CEOSleepScore, the sleep tracking company behind the device SleepScore Max has just released a standalone app delivering their SleepScore to the iPhone app store. The app, free to use from the iPhone app store, is powered by sonar and is backed with massive experience in sleep tracking, backed by Dublin…Wearables4 min readWearables4 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·Jun 5, 2018Measuring Wellness — How? Why?Quantifying and tracking wellness in healthcare and assisted living facilities. How do we define wellness? How can we track it? Monitoring patients in assisted living facilities is an incredibly important process. Monitoring catch illnesses, neurodegeneration or any other degeneration conditions early, which if not caught can have much larger implications in the future. Wellness, as opposed to sickness, is a…Healthcare3 min readHealthcare3 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·May 15, 2018Cardiac Health Symposium — Key Takeaways from the Quantified Self“Look at the edges of any field, because that’s where you see the future” — Susannah Fox San Diego, California, April 2018, the Quantified Self movement worldwide gathered together to discuss cardiac health, and findings from a worldwide self-experimentation project that took place over the last year. The audience was…Quantified Self6 min readQuantified Self6 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·Apr 2, 2018High-Frequency Blood Testing — What? Why? How?For most of us, cholesterol and glucose testing happens once a year during an annual check-up. Diabetic patients test several times a day with home blood testing kits — this is needed to manage that condition. The latest in continuous glucose monitors track at a much higher frequency, massively upgrading…Quantified Self5 min readQuantified Self5 min read
Mar 13, 2018Patient as Entrepreneur — Interview with Patient Advocate and CEO of HealthTech company 11 HealthIrish Tech News talks to Michael Seres, keynote speaker at Barcelona Health2.0 Conference. Michael talked about where he sees health care going, and how patients will play a critical part in building the future of healthcare. Give us a little bit about your background I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 12. I’m a three…Healthcare6 min readHealthcare6 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·Jan 20, 2018Mental Health, Neurofeedback and WearablesCan mental health be measured? Can we track improvements? Or can we even monitor for signs of worsening? In November, Dr Michael Keane, a Neuroscientist from the DCU based company Actualise gave a talk about using Neurofeedback to treat conditions like ADHD. Michael then talked about technologies available now that…Mental Health4 min readMental Health4 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·Dec 17, 2017Nutrition and Biomarkers — New Ways to Track food Intake?Can we detect what we ate from our blood? From our urine? It turns out yes. Being easily able to track what we eat will have massive impacts on many fields into the future, from wanting to lose weight into personalised nutrition advice and treatment of 21st-century chronic diseases like…Health3 min readHealth3 min read
Published inQuantified Self and Life Logging Dublin·Sep 23, 2017QUANTIFIED SELF, HEALTH & WELLNESS -Now & Into the FutureWith the rise of fitness trackers, the age of self-quantification has well & truly arrived. But what are the main motivations for people to self-track? What help is it? Does having a step tracker really motivate us to get out & exercise more? Will self-tracking help improve our health? We…Quantified Self6 min readQuantified Self6 min read
Published inBetter Humans·Sep 8, 2017Member-onlyHow To Lower Your Blood Glucose With A Continuous Glucose MonitorDiabetes and pre-diabetes is a big problem worldwide. It’s the way we’re living that’s causing diabetes. We overeat on processed food. We don’t exercise enough. We’re too sedentary. Over the last three months, I’ve been using a continuous glucose monitor, and have used it to guide small lifestyle and…Health6 min readHealth6 min read
