Managing Health Information In Your Life - UW project

The University of Washinton's Managing Health Information In Your Life project has the goal of "Supporting the information management needs of breast cancer patients"

We are designing an information system to help people with breast cancer manager their health information. When making treatment decisions and undergoing treatment, patients are often overwhelmed by the accumulation of unfamiliar information that they need to keep and use. We want to make it easier for people to organize and maintain all of their information within the context of managing the rest of their lives and schedules.

Our best wishes to the team members! Here is some coverage of the project on CNN.

Introducing ERLY.com: Organizing your life(logging) experiences

Just got a note from Eric Feng, the founder of Erly.com announcing their first product based on organizating Collections of one's lifelogs e.g. photos, videos, notes nto wonderful productions. Eric was an entrepeneur in residence at Kliener Perkins Caufield and Byers, and KPCB is an investor.

Check out their blog (http://blog.erly.com) for more info about Erly as well as an intro video about Collections, their first product. Or go to http://erly.com and give it a try. The team sollicits your feedback.

The concept and organization of the the Erly system corresponds to several Total Recall concepts: structuing one's life into segments of autobiographical memory, organizing content into collections, and providing various visualizations to display stories. Friends can add content and life segments can be uploaded to the social media sites.

SenseCam walk in California Hills

A walk through the hills of California, captured by SenseCam.

LifeLogging and Your Life Uploaded featured in London Times

In Memories Are Made of Disks (subscription) Simon Cox rounds up a nice collection of LifeLogging interviewees, including Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell, Lyndsay Williams, Cathal Gurrin, and some skeptical neurologists and geographers. The skeptics are given a loud voice, especially in the print edition's "big brother" photo, but all angles are presented in an interesting way.

ReadiBand - sleep tracking from your wrist

ReadiBand is a wristwatch-like device which tracks wrist movements to estimate how you are sleeping:

Our scientifically proven system is highly accurate. A recent study showed that the ReadiBand™, coupled with our patented classification algorithms, assessed sleep virtually as well as sleep lab polysomnography (93% accurate).

Based on ReadiBand™ data, we provide a range of sleep statistics, such as sleep efficiency, sleep duration, and time to sleep onset. In addition, once the ReadiBand™ data are automatically processed through our patented and validated computer model, fatigue risk levels are calculated and displayed

The ReadiBand was recently used by the Vancouver Canucks in their NHL playoff run. In the video about the Canucks, they also mention wearing the device 24x7 and measuring the impact of sleep on reaction time.

I'm trying out a fitbit now. I wonder how ReadiBand compares?