2. Topics - Day 2
• Exercise data: Garmin Connect / Google Earth / rubiTrack
• Sleep data: Zeo! How’d you sleep and what can we make
of it?
• Tools I Use: weight and body composition, nutrition/food
info, and making it fun -- Fitocracy / Fleetly /Geocaching
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25. Day 2 – Tuesday, Oct 18
•Weight loss through tracking
–The Hacker’s Diet / website
–FatWatch iPhone app
•Examine Zeo sleep data from previous 5 days
•30 - 45 minutes exercise session (walk/hike/run)
•Upload and examine the data
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26. Day 3 – Friday, Oct 21
•“Sensors and the Self”
–Erik Hofer presents for 1 hour on the topic of his work with personal
informatics
•Course wrap-up
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27. Course Description
• Title: Tech-savvy Fitness
The goal of this elective is to explore some of the high-tech and cost-effective (consumer-grade) tools that
are available for fitness and health management.
Participants will gain first-hand experience using heart rate monitoring, weight and body composition, and
body-space integration (GPS) tracking technologies as feedback-generating tools in a personally tailored
fitness program.
Course focus will be on examining the participants’ own metrics gained through exercise sessions, and how
these technologies can help empower their future patients to help manage their own fitness and health care.
Students will be asked to weigh-in twice a week at the LRC (~2 minutes) for the month prior to the elective
to establish a base-line of data.
Note: this elective is not a weight-loss or exercise program; it is intended to get you familiar with some of the
technologies involved in health metric gathering (e.g. exercise monitor, weight tracking, etc)
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