What Gets Measured Gets Done: Can Self-Tracking Technologies Enhance Advice Compliance?
Author(s): Wittkowski, KristinaKlein, Jan F.Falk, TomasSchepers, Jeroen J.L.Aspara, JaakkoBergner, Kai N. Abstract: Self-tracking technologies (STTs) in the form of smart devices and mobile applications enable consumers to monitor, analyze, and interpret personal...
Changing emotional engagement with running through communal self-tracking: the implications of ‘teleoaffective shaping’ for public health
Author(s): Spotswood, FionaShankar, AviPiwek, Lukasz Abstract: Emerging research explores the role of self-tracking in supporting healthy behaviour. Self-tracking comprises a number of interrelated practices; some individual some communal. In this article, we focus on...
Changing emotional engagement with running through communal self-tracking: the implications of ‘teleoaffective shaping’ for public health
Author(s): Spotswood, Fiona Shankar, Avi Piwek, Lukasz Abstract: Emerging research explores the role of self-tracking in supporting healthy behaviour. Self-tracking comprises a number of interrelated practices; some individual some communal. In this article, we focus...
Life-Swap: How Discussions Around Personal Data Can Motivate Desire for Change
Author(s): Rowanne Fleck, Marta E. Cecchinato, Anna L. Cox, Daniel Harrison, Paul Marshall, Jea Hoo Na Anya Skatova Abstract: Personal informatics technologies support the collection of and reflection on personal data, but enabling people to learn from and act on this...
In the Face of Negative Data, the Effects of Goal Type and Feedback Type on the Willingness to Continue to Participate Quantified-Self
Author(s): Yang, XiaofanPan, Ding Abstract: In order to ensure the continuous participation of consumers in quantified-self, this paper studies the influence of target type and feedback type on the intention of quantified-self continuous participation in the face of...
Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation in Physical Activity through Quantified-self Data Sharing
Author(s): Yang, Nanvan Hout, GerbrandFeijs, LoeChen, WeiHu, Jun Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Quantified-self application is widely used in sports and health management; the type and amount of data that can be detected and fed back to the user are growing rapidly. However,...
Four Ironies of Self-quantification: Wearable Technologies and the Quantified Self
Author(s): D.A. Baker Abstract: Bainbridge’s well known “Ironies of Automation” (in: Johannsen, Rijnsdorp (eds) Analysis, design and evaluation of man–machine systems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 129–135, 1983. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-029348-6.50026-9) laid out...
The Internet of Things: Social dimensions
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast, dispersed system in which a diverse array of objects, humans, and other living things is connected via “smart” technologies and the Internet. In this article, I present a thematic review of...
The utility of wearable fitness trackers and implications for increased engagement: An exploratory, mixed methods observational study
Author(s): Zakkoyya H. Lewis Lauren Pritting, Anton-Luigi Picazo, Milagro JeanMarie-Tucker Abstract: Objective To explore which features of wearable fitness trackers are used and deemed helpful. Methods Forty-seven participants took part in an online survey. All...
Beyond empowerment, experimentation and reasoning: The public discourse around the Quantified Self movement
Author(s): Hepp, AndreasAlpen, SusanSimon, Piet Abstract: This article presents the results of a discourse analysis of press coverage on the Quantified Self (QS) movement in the German and British (online) press between 2007 and 2018. The analysis is driven by two...