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Apple just announced they’re adding period tracking to the built-in iOS Health app, but there are plenty of apps for iOS and Android that have been offering in-depth period tracking for ages. Here are some of the best I found.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This is getting very personal. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? Most people would not even think about tracking their every move and data like the quantified self movement is promoting. However, we are providing more and more of our intimate data to our apps and websites, as evidenced by these apps, some of which come pre-installed on iPhones. This is bound to raise privacy issues in the future.
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Which parts of your daily routine have the greatest impact on your mood? Do you wake up happier when you sleep more, or exercise more? What can you do to improve your mood?
Farid Mheir's insight:
Basically it confirms that 8hrs of sleep and weekends make you happier. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? Big data will provide us with more and more of these proofs based on facts gathered from millions of people and events.
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According to CrunchBase, venture investors have spent nearly $2.6 billion backing 138 wearable companies since 2008. Over half of this total ($1.6 billion) has gone into 45 California-based startups.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Data on venture funding of wearables startups with links to other interesting posts.
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One day soon, your company could hand you a fitness-tracking device as a gift.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Appirio 400 employees were offered free FitBit device for free and in return they got a 5% reduction in their insurance premiums. Similar program for BP America 24000 employees and relatives. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Again here the debate is how much is your personal information worth to you? We'll get more of these programs in the coming years so we all have to start asking ourselves how much we are willing to pay to keep our personal data private...?
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Beam Technologies wants to change the dental insurance market, starting with data.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Insurance company offers bluetooth toothbrushes to clients to reduce their premiums - if they brush well. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Big data and digital connected things have the potential to transform entire industries and it looks like the insurance industry is one of them. With Desjardins ajusto mobile app (http://www.desjardins.com/ca/personal/insurance/car-insurance/ajusto/) good drivers get up to 25% premium discounts, Oscar fitbit tracker users get lower premiums as well (and the startup gets a crazy 15B$ valuation http://www.businessinsider.com/oscar-raises-145-million-at-a-15-billion-valuation-2015-4), the trend appears to be clear: give us access to your data and we'll give you a better deal.
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2015 MObiLe PRediCTiONs: feW fiRMs WiLL eMbRaCe The MObiLe MiNd shifT Mobile reached a tipping point in 2014 as it solidified its position as one of the most disruptive technologies for businesses in decades. Not since the advent of the Internet has a technology forced businesses to completely rethink how they win, serve, and retain customers. Forrester believes that in the future, the new competitive battleground will be the mobile moment. Why? Consumers expect to engage with brands to get any information or service they desire, immediately and in context. Today, 18% of US online consumers have this expectation, while 30% are in the midst of a transition to this mind shift.1 This revolution is taking place quickly around the world: Forrester forecasts that 42% of the total population globally will own a smartphone by the end of 2015.2 Forrester also believes that in 2015, the gap will increase between marketing leaders who re-engineer their businesses to deliver valuable mobile moments and the majority of marketing executives, who will continue to take a myopic approach by considering mobile as just another digital channel. Leaders Will Re-engineer businesses To deliver Mobile Moments Next year, we expect smart marketers to shift their focus away from mobile apps and instead re-focus their sights on first-party data; privacy; analytics; brand experiences; and the broader digital business transformation underway and the role mobile will play in it. Mobile-shifted marketers will strive to build valuable mobile moments that extend beyond mobile phones, apps, and websites and will depend heavily on massively responsive data services and systems of engagement internally.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I don't like predictions but this article is a bit different as it lays down "actions for marketers" - and they also apply to other groups in organizations, especially IT and CIO. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Mobile cannot be an afterthought and still requires a lot of care to execute properly. Forrester also raises some very interesting examples such as: "Mobile-enabled business models will disrupt the value chains of entire industries. AliveCor’s $199 heart monitor, plus a mobile phone, offers a $4.99 alternative to the $200 to $300 price tag of a traditional cardiogram, in addition to extending the service to those consumers without access to medical facilities."
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"This program fits within the Healthy Emory strategic plan which focuses on three key areas: increasing physical activity; improving healthy eating and nutrition; and enhancing stress management skills," he says.
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Emory University subsidizes fitbit wearable step tracking devices to improve 1200 employee wellness, leveraging the fitbit corporate wellness program http://bit.ly/1cNGtgv WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We think digital devices, wearables, watches, and fitness apps as personal health improvement devices. Corporations are also seeing them as useful ways to improve their bottom lines as they expect that healthier employees are more productive, less prone to taking sick days, etc. I expect this trend to grow at a rapid pace in the future. Warning: of course, this raises a number of concerns regarding information privacy and the use of private health data by corporations. The fear that employees may have - I know I would - is that the corporation will use the data to discriminate against employees. For example, they could raise or lower certain benefits, such as insurance premiums, for employees that do not exercice as much as others. Big data coming from millions of device users could provide those "standards" or benchmarks. A proper governance program must be put in place along with strong and long-term communication plan. Further reading using the wearables, data or privacy tags in my blog
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Who doesn't want their sexual performance analysed by a virtual sex coach? Exactly, and that's the thinking behind (or on top, or reverse cowgirl, or...we'll stop now) Lovely - the smart wearable sex toy for couples. Just landed on Indiegogo, Lovely slips on to a male you-know-where and is made of body-safe, silky smooth, medical-grade…
Farid Mheir's insight:
Looks good but not certain I am ready for so much personal data but I guess it has to happen at some point in time... ;-)
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HidrateMe, a smart water bottle that syncs to your phone to track your water intake and glows to remind you to stay hydrated
Farid Mheir's insight:
The bottle promises to track your water intake and remind you when you have not taken enough. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? All quantified self trackers want to track your food and water intake but it is a pain to do it manually. I guess this lowers the barrier to track your life thoroughly.
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People have been predicting wearables would be the next big thing for about as long as I've been involved in technology, but this time they might be right.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Been waiting for this to emerge for a while given the intensity of interest around wearables and internet of things. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF BUSINESS? In the wearable space, I guess what you want to wear are the sensors, not the processing gear. So being able to create cheap custom sensors allows businesses to gather more information about the environment their products and people go through, then analyze it remotely to make decisions. This is a possible component towards that goal.
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According to a recent study conducted among American adults by Ipsos MediaCT, Apple is the presumptive king among wearable devices. When asked which brands Americans would consider purchasing in the wearable category, Apple (62%), Google (44%) and Samsung (43%) were the top three most mentioned brands, not at all surprising given they dominate the mobile platform market. Fitness brands were also highly mentioned, with Fitbit (31%) ranking fourth in consideration and Nike in sixth (27%).
Farid Mheir's insight:
Fitness drives the wearables market
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A higher prevalence of obesity in Northern and Eastern Europe United Kingdom, Iceland and Scandinavian countries, except for Sweden, are in the group of the countries most concerned with overweight and obesity issues. Is it because of the climate or due to eating habits? Some of them are among the wealthiest countries. With a prevalence …
Farid Mheir's insight:
Data gathered with a simple device - the withings connected scale - can provide evidence of obesity and where it is most prevalent in Europe.
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Instead of staying up binging on House of Cards, celebrate sleep week by pledging to go to bed early. It'll help your body and mind get the sleep it needs.
Farid Mheir's insight:
fascinating what data from many people can tell us.
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An overview of the impact of the end of year festivities on health: sleep, weight and physical activity
Farid Mheir's insight:
No surprise in the data: people go to bed late on xmas and new year and wake up later the next morning. But the difference in each country seems to demonstrate that Americans don't party a lot and that French party more than many others. Here again, no surprise... ;-)
Farid Mheir's comment,
June 2, 2015 5:16 PM
thank you @Hany Aly @Vandana Verma. Feel free to recommend my topic
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“ Ingestible sensors and implantable chips that collect important data about your health could soon become the norm.”
Via JP DOUMENG
Farid Mheir's insight:
Think that wearables are freaky, consider ingestible sensors!
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As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
If you don't know what behavioral tracking is about, this may be an "awakening" video: be prepared.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I've been following the Firefox "collusion" add-on since its inception (it is now called "lightbeam" and you can find it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/). I use it on a regular basis to remember the digital breadcrumbs I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. Unfortunately, the lightbeam software add-on can only help by blocking the digital ads that track us and cannot minimize the behavioral tracking itself.
On this Data Privacy Day 2017, we must use this opportunity to raise our knowledge of the digital tracking that occurs in both the virtual world and the physical world. It is now a reality that we are being tracked as much in the physical world because we carry in our pockets smartphones that track our every moves - literally. Be aware, and be careful.
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
September 14, 2013 12:02 PM
I've been following collusion addon since its inception and I use it on a regular basis to remember all the digital breadcrums I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. This is an awakening video but unfortunately the collusion software fail to offer us paths to minimize what behavioural tracking - aside from blocking all ads.
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Using evidence and a bit of logic, I bet the iWatch will be much less a time piece and much more platform for auto-analytics and managing yourself.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I've thinking abot this for a long time: an Apple watch only makes sense if wearing it provides you with information you do not already have. The real transformation would be that an iWatch would combine all different kind of sensors and monitors and combine them with communication and applciations you find in an iphone. You can wear a watch 24 hours a day on your skin. Because of that it can monitor in real-time your temperature, heartbeat, glucose levels, sleep patterns, position, speed, etc. and communicate all that info to services. I would expect to see an iHealth service for seniors or people suffering from diabetes, raising an alarm automatically when sensors detect an anormal situation. Or an iProtect program that would act as a generic "panic button" or "personal 911" in case of trouble. Of course this needs to fit into a 3cm square profile and have a one-week battery capacity, but I believe these are all solvable problems. Whether they willbe solved in 2013 by Apple is the real question!
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