Adapting the Stage-Based Model of Personal-Informatics for Low-Resource Communities in the Context of Type 2 Diabetes
Author(s): Meghan Reading Turchioe Marissa Burgermaster Elliot G.Mitchell Pooja M.Desai Lena Mamykina Abstract: Growing availability of self-monitoring technologies creates new opportunities for collection of personal health data and their use in personalized health...
Why Users Comply with Wearables: The Role of Contextual Self-Efficacy in Behavioral Change
Author(s): Annamina Riedera U. Yeliz Eseryel, Christiane LehrerReinhard Jung Abstract: Wearables provide great opportunities for improving personal health, but research challenges their capacity to evoke behavioral change effectively. Realizing the full potential of...
Wearable Activity Trackers in the Management of Rheumatic Diseases: Where Are We in 2020?
Author(s): Thomas Davergne Antsa Rakotozafiarison Hervé Servy Laure Gossec Abstract: In healthcare, physical activity can be monitored in two ways: self-monitoring by the patient himself or external monitoring by health professionals. Regarding self-monitoring,...
Potential Benefits and Risks Resulting From the Introduction of Health Apps and Wearables Into the German Statutory Health Care System: Scoping Review
Author(s): Heidel, AlexandraHagist, Christian Abstract: Background: Germany is the first country worldwide that has introduced a digital care act as an incentive system to enhance the use of digital health devices, namely health apps and wearables, among its...
Self-Tracking Health Over Time: From the Use of Instagram to Perform Optimal Health to the Protective Shield of the Digital Detox
Author(s): Rachael Kent Abstract: Instagram and self-tracking technologies enable multiple ways to perform and represent the body and health. No research has yet explored how self-tracking technologies and self-representations of health identity on social media, in...
Measuring commitment to self-tracking: development of the C2ST scale
Author(s): Elçin HancıJoyca LacroixPeter A. M. RuijtenAntal HaansWijnand IJsselsteijn Abstract: Self-tracking technologies bring a new set of experiences into our lives. Through sensors and ubiquitous measurements of bodily performance, a new form of automation...
A Scientometric Analysis of Self-tracking in Relation to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
Author(s): Xue WuMan ZhaoHan-Teng LiaoSi-Pan Sun Abstract: As an increasing amount of personal data has been gathered by wearable and mobile devices, self-tracking, or the practice that people keep track, has become an important topic in Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
The Quantified Woman: Exploring Perceptions on Health App Use among Austrian Females of Reproductive Age
Author(s): Daniela Haluza Isabella Böhm Abstract: Smartphones have become the most important commodity for today’s digitalized society. Besides direct interpersonal communication, their most used features are third-party applications (apps). Apps for monitoring health...
Cultural Impact on Perceptions of Aging, Care, and Lifelogging Technology: A Comparison between Turkey and Germany
Author(s): Julia Offermann-van Heek Wiktoria Wilkowska Martina Ziefle Abstract: An aging society characterized by rising numbers of people in need of assistance and care poses tremendous challenges for care services, hospitals, families, and the whole society. Using...
A more‐than‐human approach to bioethics: The example of digital health
Author(s): Deborah Lupton Abstract: Digital health technologies are often advocated as a way of helping people monitor, promote and manage their health, care for others and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Yet these technologies have also been subject to...