Deck to accompany ITP DIYHealth 2012 opening lecture. Created by Steven Dean, uploaded by Myles Recny.

1. Designing and Building
a System for Self-Care
DIY Health
Steven Dean
steven.dean@nyu.edu
917 538-5194

2. World Health Organization defines health as
“a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being”

3. Health is mostly driven by behavior. Not genetics.
Your DIY health solutions will focus on behavior.

4. course description

5. Traditional medical care focuses on fixing sickness but
doesn't do a very good job of helping prevent it.
Who does a good job of preventing sickness?

6. Self-care solutions that help us take better care of
ourselves have the potential to improve our health and
well-being, and may keep us from experiencing the
consequences of chronic disease, or even reversing it.
What does self-care mean to you?

7. The sensor and self-tracking revolution is changing our
understanding of data and ourselves. We need new
systems that collect, understand and interpret this data to
help us know ourselves better and make better choices in
light of that knowledge.
How do you currently learn about yourself?

8. How might we design a self-care system that engages us
in our own monitoring, goal setting, experimenting,
reflecting and understanding as it relates to our bodies,
minds, emotions, relationships and environment?
What system, if any, do you use now?

9. Since self-care applies to all of us, you will focus inwardly
on your own needs and situations.

10. The goal of the course is to design a self-care system that
helps you take stock of yourself by exploring ways to
measure, reflect and act upon your health and lifestyle.

11. You will be making interactive interfaces, visualizations
and feedback systems that use existing technologies and
methods to support your health and well-being.

12. You will employ design techniques to develop problem
statements, generate concepts, prototype, and then test
and refine your solutions to evolve them into high-fidelity
prototypes that use sketches, scenarios, videos and user
journeys to convey the complete user experience.

13. The emphasis is on the lightest weight prototype, which
works through the solution over actual implementations in
software and hardware. Significant portions of class time
will be set aside for teamwork, designing and critique.

14. goals of the course

15. Learn how actions lead to achieving goals.

16. Learn how behavior change works.

17. Learn how to design for behavior change.

18. Learn how to model systems.

19. Design a self-care system that works for you.

20. Collaborate with others to test and improve your designs.

21. requirements

22. Come to class.

23. Arrive on time.

24. Contact me.

25. Blog.

26. Pass.

27. Do all assignments.

28. Distractions.

29. Contribute.

31. The Plan

32. Week 1
Monday 10 Sep
Disappearing (at sea) by Andrew Friend http://www.andrewfriend.co.uk

33. Intro, what is health?
Syllabus overview
Goals of the course
What does health mean to you?
What is self-care?

34. Week 2
Monday 17 Sep
to be rescheduled

35. What is the Quantified Self?
Self-tracking and the QS movement
Body hacking, self-experimenters
Guest QSer TBD

36. Week 3
Monday 24 Sep

37. What is behavior change?
Human nature and some basic psychology
What is a behavior?
Models of behavior change
Types of behaviors

38. Week 4
Monday 1 Oct

39. How do you change behavior?
Motivation and ability
Well-timed triggers
Designing for behavior change
What works? What doesn’t work?

40. Week 5
Monday 8 Oct

41. Habit formation
What are habits?
Rewards and incentives
Shaping and reinforcement
Building a habit machine
Self-tracking in habit creation
Guest: Fred Muench

42. Week 6
Monday 22 Oct

43. Body as an interface
Sensors, devices, technology on the horizon
Hacking the body, mind, self
Performance

44. Week 7
Monday 29 Oct

45. Goals, actions and feedback loops
Cybernetic systems
Self-tracking and self-monitoring
Design Brief for final project
Guest: Paul Pangaro

46. Week 8
Monday 5 Nov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

47. Designing a Self-Care System
Final project brief
Concept maps
Sketch models
Brainstorm ideas
Guest speaker

48. Week 9
Monday 12 Nov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

49. Designing a Self-Care System
Project draft
1st and 2nd order feedback models
Document B=MAT
Journey maps

50. Week 10
Monday 19 Nov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

51. Designing a Self-Care System
Document process
Improve feedback models
Design interventions
Prototype
Sketches

52. Week 11
Monday 26 Nov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

53. Designing a Self-Care System
Storyboard
Test ideas
Iterate and improve
Prototype

54. Week 12
Monday 3 Dec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

55. Designing a Self-Care System
Prototype
Design
Voiceover
Video shoot, edit
Rough cut

56. Week 14
Monday 10 Dec
Wednesday 12 Dec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

57. Designing a Self-Care System
Refine
Final presentations