The Qualified Self and Affective Sensing
The people at frog design have been exploring sensing technologies and their impact on the human experience. Two interesting articles are the result:
The Qualified Self: Going Beyond Quantification
Just as stories yield data, data yield stories. And just as it is difficult to quantify our lives without data, we cannot qualify them without context or narrative. When we bring the two sides together, we achieve deeper self-knowledge.
Design and the (Ir)Rational Mind: The Rise of Affective Sensing
How we experience the world—our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment—may be driven more by the mind’s subliminal, pre-cognitive processes than by the conscious ones.
