Expereal iPhone App - How To
- 1. Expereal A Brief Introduction November 8, 2012
- 3. Who
- 4. Founded by Jonathan Cohen, NY-based strategist Experience in consumer research & analysis Lover of music, design & books on human thinking
- 6. What
- 7. Expereal is an iPhone app for rating, analyzing, sharing & comparing your life 2nd free version (1.6) to test & get user feedback
- 8. Why
- 9. Inspired by Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast & Slow” Experiencing & remembering selves Self-understanding & connections to others
- 10. Daniel Kahneman *To be clear, Expereal is NOT endorsed, supported, owned or controlled by Kahneman.
- 11. Is there a connection between the reflective self & our connected selves?
- 12. Does capturing and reviewing such data lead to improved decision making and life, and how can we know that this process is contributing to that improvement (vs. other factors?)
- 13. Are more people (beyond QS) willing to actively measure their lives on an ongoing basis, even if there is clear benefit to doing so?
- 14. How
- 15. 1. Login with Facebook -Requires Facebook account -Won’t auto-post to Timeline -If you use Places Picker or Friend Finder, FB might attribute that to your profile, but will not post to timeline -Facebook does not see ratings or descriptions unless you post to Timeline (not a default setting)
- 16. 2. Terms & Conditions -Please read them, really! -Also available at Expereal.com -Warning: App has social components, but doesn’t auto-share to your Facebook timeline -DON’T use as therapist/medicine replacement. Please!
- 17. 3. Capture -Rate life in the moment -1 through 10 scale: 10 being the best/ highest, 1 being the lowest/worst -What is captured: Day, Date, Time, Rating and longitude/latitude if geo- location is enabled -Opportunity to add details on next screen (Optional)
- 18. Swipe or Tap Rating Tap to make arc reappear Press Submit to enter
- 19. 4. Capture Details -Precise instructions follow on next pages
- 20. 4a. Location -Find places near me uses Facebook Places Picker: does not publish to Facebook, but might be captured in Facebook database -Enter manually is an open field: typewriter pops up
- 21. 4b. Tag -Tag can be a word, phrase, sentence or paragraph -Unlimited number of descriptions -After clicking ‘Done’, a new line will appear. Tapping on the line will allow you to enter an additional description -This process repeats for as many “tags” as you’d like to enter
- 22. 4c. People Tags -Use Facebook Friends finder: likely that Facebook tracks this, but does NOT auto-publish to News Feed -Search contacts uses iPhone address book (does NOT upload contacts to Expereal servers) -Enter manually: open field with keyboard
- 23. 4d. Facebook / Photo -Share on Facebook: Means that Facebook will see your rating and tags (if you don’t want this, don’t share to Facebook!) -Choose/Take Photo: Photo is NOT saved to camera roll (if this is important, take the photo using the camera outside the app and then ‘Choose Photo’ to upload) -Press Done to save
- 24. 5. Menu -Always accessible at top left -Please follow on Twitter for updates, tips and help
- 25. Calendar icon at top right switches to Visualize Month 6. Visualize Week Numbers at top of You (in colors), Friends (in light screen are weekly gray) and All (in dark gray) averages, starting with most recent Sunday Your daily highs and lows are represented by the colored vertical lines Each day is touchable to see your ratings and tags for that day
- 26. 7. Visualize Month -Month view by day -You on left (color), All on right (b&w) -Swipe to view past months -Each day is touchable to see ratings and tags for that day
- 27. 8. Visualize (Day) -By tapping on individual day in Visualize Week or Month view, you can view all individual ratings and associated locations, tags, people and pictures
- 28. 9. Notifications -Default 5 times daily -Can be turned off (“Never”) -Next version: greater flexibility
- 29. 10. Profile (top) -Average ratings for Past Day (24 hours), Past 7 Days & Past 30 Days -You, Facebook friends (anonymous) and All (anonymous everyone using app) -Computed every 10 minutes -Top 10 tags for everyone, computed every 12 hours
- 30. 10. Profile (bottom) -Average ratings for Past Day (24 hours), Past 7 Days & Past 30 Days -You, Facebook friends (anonymous) and All (anonymous everyone using app) -Computed every 10 minutes -Top 10 tags for everyone, computed every 12 hours