MyMe
Medical data is oddly impersonal considering its personal origins. How can people engage with, internalize and process medical data (or any data...) if it does not relate to them in a personalized way? How can the data be actionable or meaningful if we engage with it in binary contexts of numbers that are good or bad and devices that turn on and off. How do we make our data actionable? Whether it is your activity data, your diabetes data or your cholesterol data. Health care design right now is largely focused on data and technology and rooted in behaviorism. It does not account for the idiosyncratic and personal nature of our bodies or ourselves. Through personal and creative interactions with our own experience of the data, we cultivate visual mnemonics that we can engage with. Through understanding and engaging with our data in a personal way it becomes meaningful and valuable.
