Am I normal? Why self-quantification is for everyone | Blaine Price | TEDxUniversityofNicosia

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Smart digital devices are no longer restricted to phones and tablets and along with their advancements come changes in human behavior and health levels. Blaine Price, computer Scientist and Researcher at the Open University UK, gave a TEDx talk at TEDx University of Nicosia on a technological tipping point that allows ordinary people to gather data about themselves.

These are technologies that concern our physiology, behaviour and even our genetics at a level previously only available to elite athletes and expensive medical laboratories. This gives us all an opportunity to look deeper into ourselves and use the tools to take control of our lives to achieve goals that were previously difficult or impossible.

Enjoy Blaine Price's TEDx University of Nicosia talk.

Blaine Price completed postgraduate work at the University of Toronto before moving to the UK, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Computing. He is on the European Network Information Security Agency’s expert group that studied the risks and benefits of emerging life-logging technologies. He is a member of the Chartered Society of Forensics Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery and the British Computer Society. He is Principal and Co-Investigator on a number of grants studying various aspects of ubiquitous computing and self-quantification technologies, including privacy management and how such data can be used by ordinary people to better understand themselves. In 2013 his research was featured on the BBC Science documentary series Horizon in an episode entitled Monitor Me.

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