Week 1: Post-it exercise
Health to you. Take 3 yellow post-its and write down 3 things that you do to take care of your own health. What actions and activities do you currently do that has some impact on you own health & wellbeing?
Exists. Take another post-it and write down 1 existing technology that you could use to improve or maintain your health today.
Doesn’t exist (yet). Take another post-it and write 1 non-existing technology (as far as you know) that you could use to maintain or improve your health. Anything goes.
RESPONSES: Health to you.
Ability to heal (Paul)
The absence of disease (Paul)
A feeling of wellness -> content (->happy), comfort (->steady) (Paul)
Hope something bad doesn’t happen (Fred)
Try to eat some vegetables (Fred)
Maintain balance between enjoying life + being obsessive (Fred)
Self-motivation [Will] (Ji Hyun)
Strong heart beat (Ji Hyun)
Smile (Ji Hyun)
Feeling good (Ryan)
Happy (Ryan)
Feeling bad (Ryan)
Know exactly the reason that makes me not feel good (Roy)
Health is a prevention rather than treatment (Roy)
Body feels good (Roy)
Energy (Valentina)
Happiness (Valentina)
When you have good health, you don’t think about it (Valentina)
Physical fitness/lack of disease (Kimi)
Contentment/happiness (mental well being) (Kimi)
Balanced/regular, Behaviors/activities (Kimi)
Stability in mind and body, a reliable and strong state of being (Craig)
Feeling of clarity, happiness, and confidence (Craig)
The condition of a mind and/or body (Craig)
Have enough energy to do things (Frankie)
Being happy with life (Frankie)
Feeling good physically and mentally (Frankie)
Fitness (Jamie)
Preventive care (Jamie)
Fiber (Jamie)
Ability to enjoy life without any medical problem (Ju Yun)
All the body functions work properly (Ju Yun)
Knowledge about body (Ju Yun)
Wholeness (John Schimmel)
Pain free (John Schimmel)
Independence (John Schimmel)
Freedom/captivity (Suvarchala)
Basic right (Suvarchala)
Energy (Suvarchala)
Birth, growth, decay [repeat] (Marco)
Reuniting the false or artificial dichotomy between the body and mind (Marco)
Establishing balance, homeostasis on various levels for all interconnected living things. Cellular level 4 -> biosphere (Marco)
RESPONSES: Existing.
Green Goose, Fitbit, Zeo, Nike+ (Kimi)
Heart rate monitor (Paul)
Bike wattage meters (Carl)
Knowledge of one’s genes (Fred)
Bicycle (Marco)
Jawbone’s Up, devices that monitors things like heart rate 24/7 (-)
Mobile app (Valentina)
Medicine/drugs (Frankie)
Fooducate app (Ryan)
Mobile phone (Suvarchala)
Meditation (Craig)
Mobile phone (Ju Yun)
Mobile phone (Ji Hyun)
Running shoes (John Schimmel)
RESPONSES: Doesn’t exist (yet).
That regenerative blue goop from Avatar that re-grows limbs + organs (Fred)
Some sort of self quantified monitor for preventive health (wearable) (Marco)
Self dictionary (digital? Paper version? game? … whatever) (Ji Hyun)
Body scanning mirror (Ju Yun)
A system to measure one’s diet /what they need… (Ryan)
Nerve pain management that actually works (-)
Sensing mood, quantifying detailed behaviors. 1. using an existing device, 2. no manual input (Kimi)
Real-time bad food neutralizer (Paul)
Improved implementation of stem cells treatments (Craig)
A mapping of the Chinese system. (Bridge between eastern and western medicine) (-)
A programmable, customizable system that can aid in making goal-specific choices, can adapt to “indiscernible”, can be shared, visualized + be social – mobile (-)
I want something that measures my day in terms of health (Valentina)
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