Hacking Happiness (35 page)

Chapter Two

1
. Rachel Botsman, “The Currency of the New Economy Is Trust,” TED Talk video, June 2012, http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust.html.

2
. Malgorzata Wozniacka and Snigdha Sen, “Credit Scores: What You Should Know About Your Own,”
Frontline
, November 23, 2004, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/more/scores.html.

3
. John C. Havens, “Why Social Accountability Will Be the New Currency of the Web,”
Mashable
, July 28, 2011, http://mashable.com/2011/07/28/social-media-influence-accountability/.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Sandy Pentland,
Sensible Organization
, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2006, http://hd.media.mit.edu/tech-reports/TR-602.pdf.

6
. Sandy Pentland, “Sensible Organizations: Technology and Methodology for Automatically Measuring Organizational Behavior,”
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics:
Part B: Cybernetics
39, no. 1 (February 2009): 43–55, http://realitycommons.media.mit.edu/Sensible_Organizations.pdf.

7
. Klint Finley, “What if Your Boss Tracked Your Sleep, Diet, and Exercise?”
Wired
, April 17, 2013, http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/quantified-work-citizen/.

8
. Quinn Simpson, user experience director, Citizen, interview with author, April 23, 2013.

9
. Jon Bowermaster, “Thanks to Plastic, Your Chances of Finding Nemo Just Got Way Worse,” TakePart.com, April 19, 2013, http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/19/plastic-pollution-in-the-ocean.

10
. “The Rise of the Sharing Economy,”
Economist
, March 9, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-everything-hire-rise-sharing-economy.

Chapter Three

1
. Senator Al Franken, interview with author, April 26, 2013.

2
. “Under 13 Year Olds on Facebook: Why Do 5 Million Kids Log in if Facebook Doesn’t Want Them To?”
Huffington Post
, September 19, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/under-13-year-olds-on-facebook_n_1898560.html.

3
. William Hoffman, director of the World Economic Forum’s Information, interview with author, March 23, 2013.

4
.
Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage
, Boston Consulting Group, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, February 2013, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_IT_UnlockingValuePersonalData_CollectionUsage_Report_2013.pdf.

5
. Latanya Sweeney, “Simple Demographics Often Identify People Uniquely,” Data Privacy Working Paper 3, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000, http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf.

6
.
Unlocking the Value of Personal Data,
Boston Consulting Group.

7
. Fatemeh Khatibloo,
Personal Identity Management: Preparing for a World of Consumer-Managed Data
, Forrester Research, September 30, 2011, http://www.forrester.com/Personal+Identity+Management/fulltext/-/E-RES60322?docid=60322.

8
. Shane Green, CEO of Personal.com, interview with author, March 8, 2013.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation.com, interview with author, April 9, 2013.

11
. David Bollier,
Power-Curve Society: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Emerging Networked Economy
, Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, 2013, http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/upload/Power-Curve-Society.pdf.

12
. Senator Al Franken, interview with author, April 23, 2013.

Chapter Four

1
. Tim O’Reilly, quoted in Mac Slocum, “What Lies Ahead: Data,”
O’Reilly Radar
, December 27, 2010, http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/12/2011-data.html.

2
. R. W. Picard, “Affective Computing,” MIT Media Laboratory Perceptual Computing Section Technical Report 321, April 1995, https://www.pervasive.jku.at/Teaching/_2009SS/SeminarausPervasiveComputing/Begleitmaterial/Related%20Work%20%28Readings%29/1995_Affective%20computing_Picard.pdf.

3
. Karen Weintraub, “But How Do You Really Feel? Someday the Computer May Know,”
New York Times
, October 15, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/science/affective-programming-grows-in-effort-to-read-faces.html?pagewanted=all&gwh=637D4752C266669B2E2F0CA12CE24454.

4
. Barbara Dunk and Kevin Doughty, “The Aztec Project: Providing Assistive Technology for People with Dementia and Their Carers in Croydon,” paper presented at Laing & Buisson 2006 Telecare & Assistive Technology Conference, Cavendish Conference Centre, London, January 18, 2006, http://www.alzheimers-support.com/downloads/case-study-the-aztec-project.pdf.

5
. Dimitris Mandiliotis, Kostas Toumpas, Katerina Kyprioti, and Kiki Kaza,
Symbiosis Alzheimer’s Support: An Innovative Approach to Alzheimer’s Support
, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, http://www.symbiosis.ee.authgr/e-Symbiosis/Welcome_files/Symbiosis%20Additional%20Application%20Material%20IC%20Grants%202012.pdf.

6
. Kat Houghton, cofounder of Ilumivu, interview with author, July 27, 2013.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Mary Czerwinski, research manager, VIBE Research Group, Microsoft, interview with author, August 5, 2013.

9
. Iggy Fanlo, cofounder and CEO of Lively, interview with author, April 4, 2013.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Patrick Meier, “MatchApp: Next Generation Disaster Response App?”
iRevolution Blog
, February 27, 2013, http://irevolution.net/2013/02/27/matchapp-disaster-response-app/.

12
. Patrick Meier, “Jointly: Peer-to-Peer Disaster Recovery App,”
iRevolution Blog
, April 24, 2013, http://irevolution.net/2013/04/24/jointly-app/.

13
. Patrick Meier, “MatchApp.”

14
. Margaret Morris, “The New Sharing of Emotions,” TED Talk video, April 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWdTVmWhAEs.

15
. Margaret E. Morris, Qusai Kathawala, Todd K. Leen, Ethan E. Gorenstein, Farzin Guilak, Michael Labhard, and William Deleeuw, “Mobile Therapy: Case Study Evaluations of a Cell Phone Application for Emotional Self-Awareness,”
Journal of Medical Internet Research
12, no. 2 (April–June 2010); e10, http://www.jmir.org/2010/2/e10/.

16
. Margaret Morris, clinical psychologist and senior researcher at Intel, interview with author, August 26, 2013.

17
. John C. Havens, “The Value of a Happiness Economy,”
Mashable
, June 13, 2012, http://mashable.com/2012/06/13/happiness-economy/.

18
. Bart King, “Run Up to SB ’13: John Havens Crowdsourcing Happiness to Save the World,” Sustainable Brands website, May 7, 2013, http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/blog/run-sb13-john-havens-crowdsourcing-happiness-save-world.

Chapter Five

1
. “Wearable Computing Devices, Like Apple’s iWatch, Will Exceed 485 Million Annual Shipments by 2018,” ABI Research website, February 21, 2013, http://www.abiresearch.com/press/wearable-computing-devices-like-apples-iwatch-will.

2
. Gary Wolf, “The Data-Driven Life,”
New York Times Magazine
, April 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02self-measurement-t.html?pagewanted=all&gwh=BA49EBFD810CB1BA3B78ED44071DE9CB.

3
. Antonio Regalado, “Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics,”
MIT Technology Review
, May 8, 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514356/stephen-wolfram-on-personal-analytics/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130509.

4
. Susannah Fox and Maeve Duggan,
Tracking for Health
, Pew Internet & American Life Project, January 28, 2013, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Tracking-for-Health.aspx.

5
. https://twitter.com/RachelleDiGreg.

6
. http://quantifiedself.com/guide/.

7
. Ari Meisel, “Don’t Try to Prioritize, Work on Your Timing,”
The Blog of Ari Meisel
, March 20, 2012, http://www.lessdoing.com/2012/03/20/dont-try-to-prioritize-work-on-your-timing/.

8
. John C. Havens, “How Big Data Can Make Us Happier and Healthier,”
Mashable
, October 8, 2012, http://mashable.com/2012/10/08/the-power-of-quantified-self/.

Chapter Six

1
. Chris Rezendes, “IOT: Grandest Opportunity, Most Stubborn Challenges,”
Business Weekly
, April 29, 2013, http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/blog/business-weekly-guest-blog/15338-iot-grandest-opportunity-most-stubborn-challenges.

2
. Anne Hart, “How Trees Contribute to Health by Producing Oxygen and Lowering Cortisol Levels,”
Examiner,
August 6, 2012, http://www.examiner.com/article/how-trees-contribute-to-health-by-producing-oxygen.

3
. Sarah Zielinski, “Going to the Park May Make Your Life Better,”
Smithsonian
, April 22, 2011, http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/04/going-to-the-park-may-make-your-life-better/.

4
. John C. Havens, “The Impending Social Consequences of Augmented Reality,”
Mashable
, February 8, 2013, http://mashable.com/2013/02/08/augmented-reality-future/.

5
. “Impaired Driving: Get the Facts,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, April 17, 2013, http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html.

6
. M. Mobeen Khan, executive director of mobility marketing, AT&T Business, interview with the author, May 2, 2013.

7
. Bill Zujewski, CMO and EVP of product strategy for Axeda Corporation, interview with author, April 15, 2013.

8
. Liat Ben-Zur, senior director of product management, Qualcomm, interview with author, April 4, 2013.

9
. Gartner, Inc., “Gartner Identifies the Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2013,” press release, October 23, 2012, http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2209615.

Chapter Seven

1
. Greg Satell, “5 Trends That Will Drive the Future of Technology,”
Forbes
, March 12, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/03/12/5-trends-that-will-drive-the-future-of-technology/.

2
. “Algorithm,”
Wikipedia
, accessed 06:29, July 23, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm.

3
. John Tierney, “A Match Made in the Code,”
New York Times
, February 11, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/skepticism-as-eharmony-defends-its-matchmaking-algorithm.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&&gwh=943C82A4AE35C31D744677CCB7C27153.