What’s in a sneeze?Thomas Blomseth Christiansen

thomas@blomseth.com @tblomseth

QS Groningen, June 15 2016

Sneezes 2016

@tblomseth

167 (so far)

Sneezes 2011-2016

@tblomseth

444

1019

533 486

230167

Sneezes 2011-2016

@tblomsethBased on http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4063318

Sneezes 2011-2016

@tblomseth

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Sneezes 2011 vs. 2016

@tblomseth

Sneezes 2011 vs. 2016

@tblomseth

CPH NYCSV

NYC CPHN-DK

CPH

N-DK SV SD NYC DK NL

NYC N-DK CPH

SF

What is sneezing good for?

@tblomseth

Reasoning and Modeling

@tblomseth

Pollen in nose

Time

When It Rains, It Pours

@tblomseth

Frequency

Distance in time to previous

When It Rains, It Pours

@tblomseth

Frequency

Distance in time to previous

Consciousness as part of the instrumentation

@tblomseth

Active self-tracking

My active self-tracking

@tblomseth

• 100000+ observations • 500+ hours making the observations (estimated)

➔ Even smartphone apps are too cumbersome

@tblomseth

Instruments from TOTTI LabsObservations of subjectively perceived phenomena using wearables

A warning against naïve N-of-1 methodology

@tblomseth

Cross-over design

From http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1834168Source: NASA

State and path dependency

Walter Benjamin on art and technology

@tblomseth

One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only later.

The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form.

The extravagances and crudities of art which thus appear, particularly in the so-called decadent epochs, actually arise from the nucleus of its richest historical energies. Walter Benjamin (1936): Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen

Reproduzierbarkeit [original title in German] From https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

QS and the concept of the avant-garde

@tblomseth

The avant-garde (from French, “advance guard” or “vanguard”, literally “fore-guard”) are people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. […]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde

Thank you for your attentionthomas@blomseth.com

@tblomseth