The impact of mortality salience on quantified self behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s): Yue LiuXingyang LvZiyan Tang Abstract: Quantified self refers to the process consumers collect, analyze to reflect, control, and optimize their behaviors, thus obtaining self-knowledge. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives dramatically, this...
A Predictive Model for Next Cycle Start Date That Accounts for Adherence in Menstrual Self-Tracking
Author(s): Kathy LiIñigo Urteaga Amanda Shea Virginia J Vitzthum Chris H Wiggins Noémie Elhadad Abstract: Objective The study sought to build predictive models of next menstrual cycle start date based on mobile health self-tracked cycle data. Because app users may...
Your Physical Activity Is in Your Hand—Objective Activity Tracking Among University Students in Hungary, One of the Most Obese Countries in Europe
Author(s): Gergely Ráthonyi Viktor Takács Róbert Szilágy Éva Bácsné Bába Anetta Müller Zoltán Bács Mónika Harangi-Rákos László Balogh Kinga Ráthonyi-Odor Abstract: Inadequate physical activity is currently one of the leading risk factors for mortality worldwide....
Move, eat, sleep, repeat: Living by rhythm with proactive self-tracking technologies
Author(s): Minna VigrenHarley Bergroth Abstract: Proactive self-tracking is a proliferating digital media practice that involves gathering data about the body and the self outside a clinical healthcare setting. Various studies have noted that self-tracking...
From Diaries to Data Doubles: Self-Tracking in Dutch Diaries (1780-1940)
Author(s): Leonieke Vermeer Abstract: In recent years self-tracking technologies have become widely adopted. Life-writing scholars have contributed to the burgeoning academic interest in this phenomenon and pointed to similarities between the diary and present-day...
Algorithmic Self-Tracking for Health: User Perspectives on Risk Awareness and Coping Strategies
Author(s): Noemi Festic Michael Latzer Svetlana Smirnova Abstract: Self-tracking with wearable devices and mobile applications is a popular practice that relies on automated data collection and algorithm-driven analytics. Initially designed as a tool for personal use,...
Quantified Us: a group-in-the-loop approach to team network reconstruction
Author(s): Raphael Tackx Leo Blondel Marc Santolini Abstract: Understanding team collaboration processes is key for the development of new technologies towards increasing groups effectiveness. In particular, the need and challenges of coordinating potentially...
You Are just a №: The Quantified Self From a Semio-pragmatic Perspective
Author(s): Rania Magdi Fawzy Abstract: The aim of this study is to surface pragmatic forces and the semiotically constructed self-governed persona in the self-tracking context. In so doing, the article adopts a pragma-semiotic approach to investigate the self-tracking...
The Challenge of Repurposed Technologies For Youth: Understanding the Unique Affordances of Digital Self-Tracking for Adolescents
Author(s): Jaimie Lee FreemanGina Neff Abstract: Adults’ digital self-tracking practices are relatively well studied, but these pre-existing models of digital self-tracking do not fit for how adolescents use these technologies. We apply the mechanisms-and-conditions...
Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany
Author(s): Charlotte Findeis Benedikt SalfeldStella VoigtBenigna GerischVera King Anna Rosa Ostern Hartmut Rosa Abstract: This study presents a quantitative account of who uses or stops using digital self-tracking (ST). A representative sample of German adults aged...