Other interesting talks of Morten Aagaard

1. International & interdisciplinary collaboration – Symbolic management is the solution

2. Persuasive Meta Application – new ways out of treatment

3. Cognitive Support – for the rest of us!4. Ethics – down to earth5. Theory and Praxis – HANDS version of the old story6. Bayes net – qualified maybe/how can be non

discrete phenomenas?

New Evidence and New Human Science

- a true phd talk

Morten AagaardMarch 2nd, 2011

EscienceThe end of TheoryWired articleVBN-research group

New data

Present evidence•Qualitative interviews, •Observations, •Queries, •Documents and artifacts

New evidence

Description Examples Emergence Innovative examples

Costs($)

Kvalitatitive microasssesment

Video, sound or other writings captured in context

Blogs med video, twitter

Blogs Kairos based interventioner. Nothing known

Twitter, blogs etc are free

Kvantitative microassesment

Simple statements captured in context

HANDS - interventions

SMS – beskeder med mulighed for svar.

”Quit smoking campaign” from changetech.no

Free do exist, but they are not individualised

Logdata Log of computermediated behaviour

Google analytics webside log

Quality assurance of websites

Evaluation of digital therapi/effekt in HANDS(to be published)

Almost free

Sensor data Measurement of physical wellbeing, emotional state and behaviour

Measurement of stress during computer use

Medicin, derefter Affective Computing

Monarcha - Varies, relevant equipment starts at 300 $

Rapid technological development takes place

Examples/2

Examples/Micro assesmentsTobias – how did like swimming today?

Bowling starts in a short time – would like advice on not being angry?

Send OK

I loved itI was OKI was stressedI cried

No Yes Video Later

A first analysis of the consequences

1. The new empirical data are cheap2. The new empirical data are context bound3. The new evidence can be very credible…4. The biosensors is evidence about biology and

affections5. The new cheap evidence will ease case studies6. The hermeneutical ”bridge” can be minimised

Discussion

New evidence is not relevant:

Problems:

Theoretically interesting, but…

A first discussion of the consequences

1. Information overload in human science should be taken serious

2. A new math is demanded. Keywords is: a hierarchy of understandings, Web 2.0