## UExperience: Personal data collection app ### MyData Meetup on July 2019 Presented by: Sara Jakša

## How it all started? * Emperical phenomenology / First-person research * Using DES methodology * Loooong time ago by my co-presenter

## DES (Descriptive sampling method)

## DES * Study of: * **Personal** (not general) * **Experience** (not just thought or what you think I want to hear) * **in this moment** (using beepers)

## UExperience * App, to allow you to study experience using DES * [https://github.com/datafund/UExperience](https://github.com/datafund/UExperience) * [https://sarajaksa.eu/2019/uexperience/](https://sarajaksa.eu/2019/uexperience/)

## UExperience #### DEMO

## Why should you care? * Better data about experience collected in real time * Ecologically valid research * Better analysis about oursleves * Apps, that help us achive our goals in a personalized way

## Importance of this Data "*Your inner experience includes your thoughts, feelings, sensations, tickles, etc., whatever 'appears before the footlights of your consciousness'. Your inner experience is **<font style="color:yellow">the most intimate thing you have and are</font>**: what you attend to or ignore, what you think about and how you think it, how you feel about something—these experiences shape (and are shaped by) your existence.*" ~ Russell T. Hurlburt

## Feedback-loops are important Any kind of feedback is very welcome. Either here at the meetup or later. * [sarajaksa@sarajaksa.eu](malito:sarajaksa@sarajaksa.eu) * [https://github.com/datafund/UExperience](https://github.com/datafund/UExperience)