CL037: Tanzeem Choudhury on creating new and novel tech for mental health

Tanzeem Choudhury is Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University. At Cornell she directs the People Aware Computing Group which develops applications that improve people's well-being. Part of this work is changing the way mental health is diagnosed and treated by creating new and novel wearable and mobile apps and devices. As part of her doctoral thesis at MIT she created the sociometer and the first experiments which led to a new field called Reality Mining, an area of science that Technology Review Magazine declared as one of the "10 technologies most likely to change the way we live". She is also an entrepreneur and has recently co-founded Health Rhythm. In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast, Tanzeem talks about her current projects on designing, mobile technologies that can measure human well being and working on how to influence human behaviour to increase quality of life. She tells us about how she was interested in Science and Math when she was growing up, but was never exposed to technology and had never owned a computer . "Technology does not live in isolation." - Tanzeem Choudhury Tanzeem Choudhury Show Notes: Girls and technology (5:31) The importance of breaking things (6:37) Who are you solving the problem for? (9:35) How technology can help with mental health (15:20) Analyzing voice pattern (22:02) Talking to people (25:19) Gap between clinical adoption and customer views (29:50) Raspberry Pi (38:31) The Maker Movement (38:45)  Tools Mentioned: Apple Health My Fitness Pal Favorite Book: Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon Favorite Record: Zakir Hussein Join James's Facebook fans: https://www.facebook.com/jamestaylordotme LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jameskirktaylor This is The Creative Life, James Taylor's weekly YouTube show. -------------------- ABOUT JAMES -------------------- As a creativity expert Taylor is a frequent guest speaker at universities and international conferences. He has given keynotes and talks at Apple, Subscription Site Summit in San Francisco, the British Music Show in the UK and at several universities across Europe including University of Dundee in Scotland and University of Macerata in Italy. He is often called upon by media outlets to give his views on trends in creativity and innovation. He has been quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Columbus Dispatch, STV, Business Insider and San Jose Mercury News as well as featured on BBC TV and being the subject of a 30minute program on his life for BBC Radio Scotland. As a host on shows about creativity and innovation he has interviewed legendary investor Maynard Webb (Yahoo.com, eBay.com & Salesforce.com board member) and New York Times best-selling writers Chris Guillebeau ($100 Startup), Rolf Potts (Vagabonding), Brand Cooper (The Lean Entrepreneur) and Ryan Holiday (Trust Me I'm Lying). James is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). Meet James at http://www.JamesTaylor.me -------------------- ABOUT THE CREATIVE LIFE -------------------- The Creative Life is a weekly self-improvement show full of #motivation, #inspiration, and #creativity strategies with creativity speaker and author James Taylor. The Creative Life blog can be read at: http://www.jamestaylor.me -------------------- SUBSCRIBE -------------------- Never miss a video, and join the Youtube self-help community living the fully creative life: http://www.youtube.com/jamestaylorme