I'm starting a PhD in Information Systems and Communications at Robert Morris University 22 Aug 2022 and will graduate in the Spring of 2025. My dissertation topic will focus on the necessary automation for Lifegraphs (or Lifescense) to be ubiqitious and effective for everyone living in the 1st world.

X3D and the Web3D Consortium are alive and thriving in 2020. I'm still the Humanoid Animation Working Group Co-Chair. The International Standardization Organization ratified the HAnim v2.0 specification this year. The HAnim WG is focused on modeling the adult human body's organs--all 80+ of them. I joined the IEEE Standards Association Industry Connections to participate in the 3D Body Processing standards, P3141. That group considered the X3D file format amongst others for its work. I am preparing for my enterprise architecture certification in the spring and will use the thoughts on lifegraphing for the past 15 years as motivation to pass the FEAC exam with fyling colors.

Temporary hiatus 3D Body Surface Scanning while I build a customer base

I will stop 3D body surface scanning in 19 days (early Jan 2018) due to my software licenses expiring and I'm choosing not to pay $2,000 for an annual renewal. Unfortunately, my ad hoc marketing did not generate the revenue to defray the cost of operations. I personally handed out self-printed business cards to 250 folks I sized up as interested only to hear crickets after pitching the value of having 3D body surface scans. No radio, TV, Facebook, Google or internet ads to supplement my "whenever I think someone might be" approach. I promised my family I would cease paying the renewal if I did not raise the funds from selling body surface scans to others for $5 after the first free session! I generated $5 from one scanning session in the past year! I met that guy at a Quantified Self MeetUp a year ago. I'm looking for someone or business to buy my SizeStream SS14 now. I'm asking $5,000 for my SS14. I paid $10K in Aug 2014. SizeStream doesn't advertise the SS14 anymore since they launched the SS20 model this year. Depending on who you are (i.e., academic institution, commercial entity or governmental agency) and how many you are buying at once, the cost is ~$15,000 and the annual software license required to operate the scanner is ~$3,000/yr. So if you are business using the scanner as a means to an end then like many touch labor consulting services you want to generate at least $60/hr for every hour you are open assuming one low-wage (i.e., <$20/hr) employee. The startups like Naked.fit still are not shipping the $1,000 3D Body Scanner for the home yet. No low-cost in-home 3D body scanning options exist yet.

3D Body Surface Scanning (and Total Body Skin Photography) everyday I'm home

I purchased a www.sizestream.com 3D body scanner in August 2014. Having a 3D body scanner in my home was the only practical way to amass the data for the development of the UI I will design and build for the LifeGraph/HealthGraph software suite of apps. I intend to use Ada 2012, HTML 5 and X3D/H-Anim technologies to name a few. I'm using Enterprise Architect for the requirements engineering and UML.

4th International Conference and Exhibition on 3D Body Scanning Technologies

I am going to this event to meet who I hope are future business partners in my human health graph enterprise. I'm convinced no one has emerged out of stealth development with a direct to consumer solution for whole/total/full body scanning and imaging with automatic orthorectification. The requisite inputs for orthorectification are 1) an image with accurate sensor geometry and 2) an elevation model of the body surface in VRML/X3D format. I haven't found any providers of automatic orthorectification for a human body of any age, size, posture or gender at rest. Developing the body scaffold for the panoply of scanners and imagers moving along it is one of many development projects necessary for HHG success. The field of regard and field of view for the scanners and imagers will be smaller than the scanned and imaged area no matter where they are along the body scaffold. This will require a dynamic shutter as the slant range between he body and the scanners and imagers will vary 50% from a nominal distance of 15 cm. The elevation and image resolutions will be designed to match an adult human's unaided vision or 90 micrometers. This equates to approximately 200,000,000 vertices (elevation mesh) and 200,000,000 pixels per spectral band.

my IRAD proposal slide nine (last) note

Here is my wishful thinking for a ROM cost to do what I proposed. No one mentioned in this has seen these numbers so you can laugh aloud. Labor 2,000 hrs direct Project Manager ($150/hr = $300K) 4,000 hrs Consultants labor (@ $150/hr = $600K) 4,000 hrs Subcontractors labor (@ $150/hr = $600K) MarkLogic for NXD Sizestream for body scanners and Canfield Scientific for skin imagers Web3D Consortium and equivalents for Acoustics and Haptics Materials and Equipment $25K for instrument fees (buy, rent, lease) to generate data from (tissue, fluid, gas, EMR) measurements needed to develop and initialize the Native XML DB (NXD). Sizestream will provide 3D body scanner and Canfield will provide the whole body skin imager prototypes for home use $15K for computing machinery (i.e., laptops, tablets, smart phones, peripherals) $50K for s/w licenses (Mark Logic Server, Ada 2012 complier, Bitmanagement X3D SDK, …) and class libraries. $5K technical publications (journal articles, papers, books, etc.) not freely accessible Travel $15K for 20 person-travel days, 10 round-trips to subcontractors and partners’ locations for meetings and body measurements. Virtual Worlds will used for collaboration and development. Other Direct Costs N/A The slide note follows: Basis of Estimates from Work Breakdown Structure (Earned Value Worksheet) Software Security Engineering Software Reliability Engineering eCommerce Design Computer Programming MarkLogic XML Server: WebServer, Search and Database Management System Instrument Manufacturers Consortia, Institutes, Associations, Councils, Societies, XML Schema | DTD Instrument data and metadata Web3D Consortium Members | International Society of Human Simulation Humanoid Simulation Tissues Hard Soft Fluids Gases Electromagnetic Electrical Fields Magnetic Fields X3D Standards Humanoid Animation 3D Graphics 3D Haptics 3D Acoustics

my IRAD proposal slide eight note

here is my eighth slide note for my Human Health Graph proposal Clearly, I attempt to stress myself out to achieve this productivity numbers! 8 hours per scenario, case or story 10 minutes per XML schema element or attritube 10 minutes per SysML or UML documented symbolic statement 1 hr per feature point or function point 30 minutes per declarative language statement (e.g., X3D node implementation) for 3D graphics, 3D acoustics and 3D haptics languages 4 hrs per specification change description 4 hrs per computing machine configuration 8 hrs per demonstration per platform So here is the list of work products in on the slide Statement of Work Create the 100-Yr human health baseline (documented as a HTML5 web site) Objectives—Database all data types, value ranges and measurement requirements Approach—Request health instrument interfaces and data types from manufacturers Results—UML data model of 100-Yr male & female life and postmortem disposition Create human avatar with interfaces via linguistics, graphics, acoustics and haptics Objective—Avatar acts w/date, time, location, motion, schedule, and health awareness Approach—Benchmark male & female health over 100 yrs then postmortem disposition Results—Avatar rendering and user interactions—25 most common 100-Yr life situations Milestones and Accomplishments (hrs are cumulative) I'm dreaming! 1k hrs M0: S/W Reqs A0: 100 Scenarios or Use Cases and 100 User Stories (1/gender-yr) 2k hrs M1: Data Baseline A1: Native XML DB of all health data types searchable and profiled 3k hrs M2: Instruments Benchmark A2: Relationships btwn instruments, data, …, and health 4k hrs M3: System Architecture A3: SysML diagrams created and fully documented 6k hrs M4: S/W Design A4: UML diagrams created and fully documented 9k hrs M5: S/W Prototype A5: mobile & desktop clients function 100 min demonstrating 100 feature pts and all UI feature navigation w/o warnings, errors or rebooting 10k hrs M6: Partner Agreements A6: Federal, State, local and tribal government facilities declare IOC

my IRAD proposal slide seven note

Here is my seventh slide note to my Human Health Graph proposal I will take the “Unlimited Pie” negotiation approach with partners (subcontractors, consultants, Consortia etc.). I attended the second International Summit for Human Simulation this May in St. Pete Beach, FL. I was part of the Standards Working Group after the first day. There are no standards for human simulation now but the members in the WG believe there is room for some. It will be a long journey to ISO standardization of some feature set for digital simulation of the human being because one has to choose where in a 100-Yr lifespan of a given gender and health state to standardized. The first step is to collect the services sold to date of the leading companies in this market. The survey results will form the basis for could be standardized and have market value. the slide content is worth reading too. Relevance and Contribution High Definition (HD) Digital Humans are relevant in any market where human safety or security is a factor in the trade of goods or services; developers want HD virtual humans for product development-BioCAD, BioCAE, BioCAM, and let's not forget about BioPrinting, 3D & 4D printing! Trusted, secure, low-cost and high speed exchange of HD digital health data, whether actual or desired from owner to retailer, vendor, supplier and/or provider at levels and quantities fit for purpose contributes to the reduction of the costs for doing business and the improvement of human health (all types—dental, mental, etc.) Markets such as Healthcare, Defense, Intelligence, Insurance, and Homeland Security are investing in human simulation which lacks ready, HD, low-cost access to longitudinal data from all ages and genders in the populace to develop goods and services in synthetic environments using the full spectrum of accredited digital humans for product decision making Business Potential, Opportunities, and Key Customers The potential for catalyzing human simulation, animation and modeling standards is huge if a significant percentage of the full human spectrum (age and gender) adopts and addicts to health graphing via a personally anthropometric avatar for several decades if not a life-thru-death time The opportunity to be first to market with the health platform built to evolve to a 100-Yr lifeline and generational bloodlines is huge—average $00s per human per year via payers and providers if not patients. Neither Google nor Microsoft personal health record initiatives are comparable because their interfaces are not optionally standalone nor anthropometric yet alone personally anthropometric via regular 3D total body scans and skin images Military Health System, Social Security Administration, NASA, ODNI, DHS, and DHHS will salivate for this technology

my IRAD proposal slide six note

Here is the sixth slide note in my Human Health Graph proposal Parents, single adults, relatives caring for their elders will have the platform to manage their and their children’s health while learning about the cause and effect of healthcare. The user based will become smarter and responsible patients, which makes tracking treatment and preventing diseases that much easier, hopefully less costly. I pasted the content for this slide because the note doesn't reveal much. Distinctive Attributes, Advantages, and Discriminators A personally anthropometric interface to health data history, monitoring and schedules discriminates this Health Graphs from every other health record yet alone its artificial intelligence for rendering your anticipatory avatar, obviating highly probable UI navigation steps Schedule, location, condition, instrumentation, and motion awareness True-color rendering of imaged and morphed anatomy, virtual reality acoustics of bodily functions and behaviors and haptic feedback Native XML DB architecture for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data I/O Based on international standards intended for highly-reliable, safety-critical, high-integrity, secure software engineering and programming methods (i.e., Ada 2012, et al) Tangible Assets Created C3 Group for project management artifacts HTML5 / WebGL website for interactive, anthropometric, multi-scale 100-Yr health baseline C3 Wiki for 100 scenarios, use cases and user stories Native XML database (NXD) of biometrics for 100-yo humans (incl. postmortem disposition) Integrated 3D body-shape scanner and HD radio- and photometric skin imager prototypes Service and System architectures in System Modeling Language (Enterprise Architect) NXD and software design in Unified Modeling Language (Enterprise Architect) NXD and software prototypes in Integrated Development Environment OS X, iOS, Windows 8, Linux, and Android OS prototypes

my IRAD Proposal slide five note

Here is my fifth slide note in my Human Health Graph proposal This isn’t a solution graphic as much as it is representation of the scalar (as opposed to an anthropometric or vector) human health graph. The area of the parallelogram represents the 2-D view of data volume possible during a life-death time. I need to illustrate a 3rd dimension to really bring the volume of data by type per unit type to life. Whether the data is measured or calculated from sensors | detectors | meters of any type, networked and coupled or not, in, on or off the body doesn’t matter. The reader needs to see a color map of my estimate of the number of measurands known to man as a function of time versus the number of measurements occurring. In the 2D graph, a dot would appear for one or more measurements or calculations during that interval. I want the baseline time interval to be one second meaning 3.15576 billion-second baseline (i.e., 100 Years)! Moreover, if you assume the number of affordable, probable intelligent simultaneous measures and calculated parameters for the human body & mind over all spatial and temporal scales during a century of life is 300 on average for any individual, each measurement-calculation second, consuming a centi-joule, weighing a megabyte (compressed and encrypted), spread over 100 kHz, and consuming one million instructions, implies the 100-Yr human health graph will consume 30 megajoules, weigh approximately 4 petabytes (10^15) and execute at least a peta instructions and floating point operations. Some unmetered amount of air time (RF bandwidth) will be used for subscription-based (fee for access) biotelemetry and biotelematics during the same life-death time. The solution graph is found in previous post from last year. I'm working on an H-Anim humanoid to bring the idea to life. developing software to take most of the friction out of various quantified self real-time measurement threads to H-Anim files (XML documents in an native XML database or catalog of databases) is one hard part of this project.

my IRAD proposal slide four note

Here is the updated slide 4 note (potential solution and challenges) to my Human Health Graphs proposal The human Health Graph is all about human health data and data structures! The solution to the problem starts with a 100-Yr baseline of those data for a healthy human that comes from a universal understanding of how to valid health of all types (mental, sexual, oral, etc.). Since this note is so short here's the slide content My theory is pan-awareness, animated, personalized, anthropometric interfaces for one’s simulatable digital human model will cause addiction to measuring their health at home and on the go up to an unknown yet varying plateau of minutes in a day during a lifetime and thus one’s bloodline. Moreover, such an interface will cause a significant increase in usage of extant and emerging biometric and health instruments to “fill in blanks (or biomarkers)” per se of one’s digital human model and in expectations for ever increasingly accurate animations and simulations of one anatomy, physiology and behavior. Bundle software for health graphs with consumer-grade and commercial-grade 3D body scanners and skin imagers. Establish agreements with commercial and government entities to host these devices so they are as numerous and convenient as gas stations. Catalyze the industries comprising the supply and value chains of data in a health graph to create and complete ISO standards for the ecosystem of services that reinforce continual measurement and exchange of measures for the benefit of managing one’s health, the health of their bloodline and public health by implementing artificial intelligence and various efficiencies. Potential Challenges Creating the data structures and algorithms to control the cross-platform avatar with awareness of user location & orientation, motion, date-time, health, constraints, and plan-goal. Persuading hundreds in industries and government offices (e.g., hospitals, grocery stores, libraries, etc.) to agree to conspicuously integrate low-cost yet appealing 3D body scanners and skin imagers onto their premises and customer experience paradigm Maintain backwards compatibility without significant user involvement or cost for services to upgrade legacy data (formats) and software technology

my IRAD proposal slide three note

Here is an updated slide three note of my IRAD proposal on Human Health Graphs The time [seconds-minutes per datum], energy [watt-hours per datum] and effort [logins, mouse clicks, audible commands, keystrokes, gestures, etc.] to manage health data from disparate instruments, facilities (incl. the field), observers (i.e., self, medics, doctors, etc.), etc. hampers its synthesis and effective use during life and postmortem disposition. As of 01 Jan 2012, there are 133,871 unique measurands (variables, parameters, quantities, etc.) available from analog (876) and digital (9,876) instruments in the global medical device [~$200 B/yr] market place. I made up those figures but I would like to know how has taken on the challenge of tracking such factoids! If all types of instruments were used for a female (the stressing gender) during a 100-Yr life and death time in accordance with the 154 medical protocols for training, screening and treating females including my 22 measurement protocols, 63.987 TB of uncompressed data would comprise her health graph. Again, I fabricated the numbers to get past the paralysis of not finding summary stats for body & mind quantification with the latest measurement technologies' data generation extrapolated to the end of a 100-Yr baseline lifetime. The bevy of HealthIT apps have a intolerably high abandonment rate (>59% after 4 weeks) despite their relatively young time in the market (i.e., version and release histories, download rates and sales figures). I don't know the real numbers but I like the sentence. IP Watchdog, Mobile commerce daily, mHIMSS, et al who attempt to measure such behaviors and compute statistics report the reasons for abandonment are varied. Human health management support tools (in the hundreds) are not integrated and accessible via an anthropometric interface of oneself in HD graphic, acoustic and haptic modalities over large [10^9] dynamic ranges of time and space (i.e,. nano, micro, meso and macro). I have not found proof of what additional value (i.e., desired resiliency, immunity, conditions, performance, or outcomes) having such a management tool will bring over a 100-Yr lifetime—lower healthcare insurance premiums, less time spent on therapeutic healthcare, better plans for preventative and performance-enhancing healthcare, HD awareness causing less worry & stress about short or long-term effects of health history, etc. Nonetheless, I believe the abandonment rate of HealthIT apps can be solved by presenting many feature points with your animated virtual [or digital or synthetic for anthromorphic interfaces] self as the UI revolutionizing your UX. After all, how often do you abandon yourself!?! This strategy works with a unified data model for human health and healthcare, which don’t exist.

my IRAD proposal slide two note

Here's my note for slide two of the 9-slide IRAD Proposal for Human Health Graphs No payer, provider or retailer has a data model and concomitant software package for the human being starting from zygote detection through postmortem disposition. The health and medical measurements of human bodies & behaviors with instruments and observations by humans (licensed, registered, certified, …) are segregated and have never been amassed under one document cover or hyperlinked via an age and gender dependent humanoid animation on the WWW. No one knows exactly how many measurements or instruments by type or category exist for the human body & behavior there are for any given date-time group let alone other attributes like costs to own (i.e., store, secure, etc.), operate, calibrate, etc. the instruments (sensors, detectors, etc.). Or the amount of hard or soft tissue, bodily fluid, gas, or electric or magnetic field strength required for a given [in situ or remote] measurement. How long is the measurement for a given accuracy or precision? Health Graphs abolish the centricities of the day in HealtIT, those being: geo-location, payer, treatment, conflict, technology, facility, vehicle, age, activity, employment status, organization, health condition, provider etc. Health Graphs are singularly aimed at the cycle of life and death for the human body and its behavior from single cell fertilization to sealed urn post cremation (or buried body postmortem examination).

my IRAD proposal slide one note

Last year I responded to a invitation for IRAD proposals. I submitted one but I didn't receive any useful feedback. Tell me what you think about my idea based on the notes in the 9-slide deck. Extant health records (aka. Electronic Medical Record, Personal Health Record, Electronic Patient Record, …) are without anthropometric interfaces for the patient, the payers or the providers. I assert such an interface with data structures for real-time 3D visualization (graphics), 3D auralization & sonification (acoustics) and haptic feedback (haptics) is the key to user addiction and viral adoption of health graphs into life management including postmortem disposition for all ages (zygote to super centenarian) and genders shortly after its initial release. The term record connotes the past and health graph is a term for connoting the future through postmortem disposition along with the past—your health and that of your bloodline. Moreover, serving customers via health graphs will catalyze the industries for digital human models, which human simulation and humanoid animation software and services, many Cloud based but others locally executed, will capitalize for acute and novel events in peoples’ lives. More health data (primitive and derived) equates to more revenue and profit for everyone in the chains (supply, value, …) of those data. No one knows how much health data from instruments and recorded human observations are generated as a function of age and gender amongst other subcategories during a 100-Yr lifetime including postmortem disposition so this project will create a baseline to frame the business case for developing the technology needed for health graph software and health management services during a century of life then postmortem disposition.

1,000 unpublished requirements later...

Exactly what I thought 11 months ago when I believed I would exercise the discipline necessary to moderate my everyday health-related experiences worthy of being Human Health Graph requirements. I did not write down 1,000 HHG requirements during the past 11 months but I did think of a few hundred I wish blogged. Not too long ago, I did upgrade to SparxSystems Enterprise Architect 9 (EA v10 was released this week) and develop 15 HHG Use Cases. Most of the year I've been hunting for catalogs, registries, lists, databases, and tables of biometric quadruples--biostructure-biosignal-biosensor-biostatistic. I've had no luck finding them thus far. I've haphazardly asked officials in government healthcare, CXOs in healthcare IT, university professors and germane technologists I have access to in my job. It's sad and funny at the same time how the human as a self-contained package of life is measured and observed throughout its life into postmortem for the purposes of scientific inquiry and commercial endeavor yet all those who take away measurements and observables do not have a platform to integrate those collections so they can be anthropometrically rendered in real-time (or not), possibly via an anthropomorphic display.

Requirements catch up

Ten differences between the nhumi product and my concept:

The person (patient) uses the app more than anyone else

there is a date-time control from conception to predicted or estimated death

the software interpolates or extrapolates with health data to the chosen date-time group

the humanoid is animated or simulated or reposed based on the Use Case and health data

the user manages health by entering goals, plans, estimates at the any level of resolution for any domain (mental, dental, physical, etc.) of human existence

the user manages health by rendering trends, patterns and changes in an isolated or correlated view via the humanoid and charts or graphs

the user manages healthcare by requesting services with an export of the condition that she signs before electronically sending to a broker or directly to a provider

the user manages health security by granting or denying access to providers who want to know more than the export given. N.B. the software recommends what should be exported if the PCM doesn't when ordering the referral

the software animates the humanoid with real-time feeds so your 180 bpm readout from your Polar heart monitor worn during track workouts drives an animation of your humanoid panting with a heaving chest cavity if you opened the application and went to full frontal view mode.

When I write humanoid animation, I mean the humanoid from your 3D body scans NOT some commercially available (stock) humanoid/avatar. So if you are wearing Polar heart monitors at 13- or 93-yo then your humanoid will resemble your closet 3D body scan to that age.

the software uses augmented reality technologies to render common healthy and unhealthy conditions when you point visible sensors toward yourself.

The AR episodes might be a key trigger for healthcare and self care. Self care being generic prescriptions to perform activities while well to regain levels of form or performance recently loss to inactivity.

the software tracks its usage and the cumulative (actual and estimate to postmortem) costs for health maintenance materiel and services.

Think of Business Analytics for the individual who might have a few hundred terabytes after a century of data collection and generation on everything related to his/her health.

LG-HU-FR-0001.001 Draft

The natural person's Lifegraph shall be initialized with the genotype and phenotype. The genotype and phenotype file formats shall be IAW TBD.

LG-HU-UC-0001.001

A requirement a day, right! Ok, here I go. First, let me explain the naming convention for the system requirements and use cases.

LG stands for LifeGraph
TG stands for TimeGraph
EG stands for EventGraph
SG stands for SceneGraph

HU stands for Human
MA stands for Manufactured
NA stands for Nature

UC stands for Use Case
BR stands for Business Requirement
AR stands for Architecture Requirement
RR stands for pRocess Requirement
FR stands for Functional Requirement
QR stands for Quality Requirement
PR stands for Performance Requirement
CR stands for Constraint Requirement

#### for 0..9 up to 9,999 requirements per unique combination of indices
### for 0..9 for up to 999 subordinate requirements to each 4-digit requirement

Please submit a comment when you read any requirement that does not have any of the following characteristics:

unitary (cohesive)
complete
consistent
non-conjugated (atomic)
current
feasible
unambiguous
mandatory
verifiable

11 months later

Well, I seem to be cruising along instead of cutting my teeth on the hard stuff that will make a difference sooner than later when it comes to LifeGraphs. My day job has exposed me to the world of Health IT from a process improvement perspective. I'm excited about the opportunity but usually get disappointed at the dearth of information from the client. Nonetheless, these engagements gets me access to practioners who I would never get to chat about Lifegraphs.

I still believe there is a Blue Ocean for designing a Lifegraph that takes a century to make your own and master your self awareness. Selling that in a 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl and every other World Sporting Event will take some serious thought. I mean how do you create a commerical to appeal to everyone in vivo to 115 yo and recently postmortem?

I drew the following to illustrate the sections of the LifeGraph and to discuss how the Health IT solutions on the market today haven't had or just don't address health planning (not insurance plans!) like estate or wealth planning. I think that is a big gap to be filled if I can create the image of planning health is cool and worth the effort while not coming off as an elitist or someone who thinks they will be an Olympian or World-class athlete.



I am editing the IEEE Virtual Components Standard.

I am drawing UML diagrams for the Strategy Markup Language committee.

I am going to write a LifeGraph requirement a day no matter what!

New Year's Resolutions - 2011

0. Write the Leading Edge Report I described in my 2008 LEF Grant proposal.
1. Write the Metaverse for National Intelligence paper for the DNI/CIO
2. Request a X3D version every good and service I purchase in CY2011.
3. Write the EmployeeGraph Concept paper I discuss on CSC's C3 site.
4. Author three X3D scenes using all the nodes in H-Animation and ... specifications
5. Author three H3D scenes using all the API elements
6. Author three OpenAL scenes using all the API elements
7. Submit a feature paper for a Virtual Reality publication that's peer reviewed
8. Specify the LifeGraph requirements
9. Analyze the gaps between the LifeGraph specification and COTS products