A Narrative Review of Commercial Platforms Offering Tracking of Heart Rate Variability in Corporate Employees to Detect and Manage Stress
Author(s): Craig S. McLachlan Hang Truong Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in employees being at risk of significant stress. There is increased interest by employers to offer employees stress monitoring via third party commercial sensor-based devices....
Myscéal: A Deeper Analysis of an Interactive Lifelog Search Engine
Author(s): Ly-Duyen Tran Manh-Duy Nguyen Binh T. Nguyen Liting Zhou Abstract: There is a growing number of lifelogging retrieval systems that have been introduced in several lifelogging workshops and sessions. Across all systems at the LSC, which is an annual...
Pearl: A Technology Probe for Machine-Assisted Reflection on Personal Data
Author(s): Matthew Jörke Yasaman S. Sefidgar Talie Massachi Jina Suh Gonzalo Ramos Abstract: Reflection on one’s personal data can be an effective tool for supporting wellbeing. However, current wellbeing reflection support tools tend to offer a one-size-fits-all...
Sleep Physicians Dealing with Quantified Self Technologies Dedicated to Sleep Management
Author(s): C. Calvignac Abstract: The article is based on the sociological analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with French sleep physicians during the spring of 2021. These interviews were meant to define the part played by quantified self technologies...
Personal Data Stores (PDS): A Review
Author(s): Khalid U. Fallatah Mahmoud Barhamgi Charith Perera Abstract: Internet services have collected our personal data since their inception. In the beginning, the personal data collection was uncoordinated and was limited to a few selected data types such as...
Patients’ Information Needs Related to a Monitoring Implant for Heart Failure: Co-designed Study Based on Affect Stories
Author(s): Ambre Davat Fabienne Martin-Juchat Abstract: Background: RealWorld4Clinic is a European consortium that is currently developing an implantable monitoring device for acute heart failure prevention. Objective: This study aimed to identify the main issues and...
How Digital Technology Shapes Self-Consciousness in Work Relationships? Reference to Hegel
Author(s): Albena Neschen Abstract: Up to now, there is a big debate, about what self-consciousness is, what inhibits it, and how this is related to work. By referring to classical theories of mind by Hegel this paper advances the thesis of an apparent congruence of...
A Study on ML-Based Sleep Score Model Using Lifelog Data
Author(s): Jiyong Kim Minseo Park Abstract: The rate of people suffering from sleep disorders has been continuously increasing in recent years, such that interest in healthy sleep is also naturally increasing. Although there are many health-care industries and...
Friend or Foe? Can Anthropomorphizing Self-Tracking Devices Backfire on Marketers and Consumers?
Author(s): Lane Peterson Fronczek Martin Mende Maura L. Scott Gergana Y. Nenkov Anders Gustafsson Abstract: Self-quantification, with the promise of motivating consumers to engage in health behaviors through measuring their performance, is a popular trend amongst...
Blind Image Quality Assessment with Deep Learning: A Replicability Study and Its Reproducibility in Lifelogging
Author(s): Ricardo Ribeiro Alina Trifan António J. R. Neves Abstract: The wide availability and small size of different types of sensors have allowed for the acquisition of a huge amount of data about a person’s life in real time. With these data, usually denoted as...