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Hacking H(app)inesss by John Havens

Posted by on 19 May 2014
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Editor's Note: This post
is written by Annie Pettit, PhD, the Chief Research Officer at Peanut Labs,
a company specializing in self-serve panel sample.

OPENING MORNING
KEYNOTE
Hacking H(app)iness ' How to Give Big Data a Direction

John Havens, Founder, THE H(APP)ATHON PROJECT,
Author, HACKING H(APP)INESS- WHY YOUR PERSONAL DATA COUNTS AND HOW
TRACKING IT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
  • What are YOU worth? What are WE worth? Money? Home life,
    family
  • I think therefore I am' I sync therefore I am ' our identity
    is our data
  • It's more than being on facebook. Lots of people are on
    facebook via photos and references even though they have never touched
    facebook.
  • Lots of things happen without seeing them ' sound waves,
    stress ' but can be quantified regardless ' facial recognition technology, MRIs
  • You can wear a device that measures your health or diet or
    fitness. Allows you to collect a lot of data without deciding exactly what you
    want to measure.
  • what is a data broker? [i have no idea]
  • privacy should be considered as control, privacy is
    personal. do i have the right to see copies of data collected on me
  • the property that you collected, the data that you gathered,
    that's ME.
  • get people to trust your use of their data and they will
    share more with you
  • people who are happier need less medication
  • hedonic happiness goes up and down as good and bad things
    happen; unomonic happiness is intrinsic well-being such as altruism which makes
    you feel like you have purpose
  • you can be choiceful about what you allow into your brain '
    you CAN turn off the 11 pm news, tell yourself 3 three you are happy about
  • 'Do you want to go consume a movie'? 'Do you want to
    consume a barbie doll'? This is not how people communicate with each
    other
  • Would you wear every wearable device if someone gave you $20
    000? Only if you trust them [yeah, not happening for me!]
  • People think the word consumer is impersonal, commoditized,
    transactional, negative. Why do we keep on using this word?
  • Consumers WANT to be called guest, shopper, friend, client,
    valued, customer, person, partner, patron
  • Stop calling them consumers. the paradigm won't change. the
    relationship won't change. [I've switched. I call people people now.]
  • What are you worth? Not money.

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