Let me start with some characteristics of my sleep pattern. My mean hours of actual sleep is 7.19, of which 20.4% is REM sleep, light sleep 60.1%, deep sleep 15.7%. According to the Emfit QS website my REM sleep is on the low end and my light sleep on the high end needed for complete […]
Author Archives: Danielle
sleepGalaxy: design & calories
I’ve been working on the overall design step by step, alternating between coding and looking. I want to incorporate my calorie intake after 6 PM. I’m not recording the times I ate and I suspect they influence my whole sleep. So the most logical position is to circle all around the “sleep circles”. There is […]
sleepGalaxy: recovery
As I explained in my previous post I find the recovery measurement very useful. It seems a good representation of how rested I feel. It is calculated using RMSSD. The Emfit knowledge base explains it like this: “… For efficient recovery from training and stress, it is essential that parasympathetic nervous system is active, and […]
sleepGalaxy: kick off
Finally, I’ve started to work on a piece that’s been on my mind for almost two years. Ever since I met the nice people from Emfit at the Quantified Self conference. They kindly gave me their sensor in return for an artwork I would make with it. You put the sensor in your bed, go […]
Quantified Self Europe conference 2015
As always, I was very much looking forward to the conference. The program looked promising and I hoped to meet QS pals. And because I was giving an Ignite talk and testing my Virtual View installation with updated software (view below.) This is an account of the most striking things I heard and saw. The […]
Virtual View: building the installation
During the discussion with the hospitals it became clear that I couldn’t just put my stuff in a room and leave it there, especially as the space was open to the public all day. So I had the idea of building a piece of furniture that would act both as a chair and a chest […]
Virtual View: statistics for experiment 3
In experiment three I wanted to see if adding movement to visual content had a bigger lowering effect on heart-rate and subjective stress then just using a still. And I wanted to know if variables like heart-rate and skin conductance could be restored to or below the baseline following a stress stimulus. Sound accompanied the […]
Virtual View: experiment 3 setup
For the design of the third experiment I got advice from Petra van der Schaaf, environmental psychologist. The main research question for this experiment is: does animation have added value in the restorative effect of natural stimuli? So far I’ve tested the stimuli in sets containing 6 or 12 slides. The sound didn’t have a […]
Virtual View: programming animation
I’m still working hard on my animation. It’s going a bit slower then anticipated (what else is new) but I’m confident that I’ll have a nice, representative animation finished for the experiment. As an inventory, these are the elements that I want in the testing (and probably) final landscape: horizon with hills, sky, water body, […]
Virtual View: developing animation
The past month I’ve been working on my landscape animation. By chance I discovered a great book by Daniel Shiffman called The nature of code. The book explains how to convert natural forces into code. I’m working through the book picking the forces and algorithms that suit my needs. So far the noise function in […]