Author Archives: DrWinfree

About DrWinfree

Dr. Winfree is the director of the Wearable Informatics Lab at Northern Arizona University. What is wearable informatics? The data science of wearable devices. This includes collection, management, and processing of the data from non-invasive data loggers and microcomputers designed to integrate into everyday-life.

The Wearable Informatics Lab at NAU – An Introduction

The quantified self. What does that mean? What about the quantified public? What questions can be asked with the advent of wearable quantified devices? As it so turns out, there are numerous interesting questions to ask. The Wearable Informatics Lab, a new lab at NAU in the Informatics and Computing Program, is deeply focused on such questions pertaining to health.