Abandonment of personal quantification: A review and empirical study investigating reasons for wearable activity tracking attrition
Author(s): Attig, ChristianeFranke, Thomas Abstract: Wearable activity trackers hold great potential for facilitating self-regulated health behavior, thereby improving physical fitness and preventing cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, many users discontinue...
Eye tracking in developmental cognitive neuroscience – The good, the bad and the ugly
Author(s): Hessels, Roy S.Hooge, Ignace T.C. Abstract: Eye tracking is a popular research tool in developmental cognitive neuroscience for studying the development of perceptual and cognitive processes. However, eye tracking in the context of development is also...
From self-tracking to self-expertise: The production of self-related knowledge by doing personal science
Author(s): Heyen, Nils B. Abstract: This article explores the production and type of knowledge acquired in the course of specific digital self-tracking activities that resemble research and are common among followers of the Quantified Self movement. On the basis of...
Data mattering and self-tracking: what can personal data do?
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Self-tracking practices have attracted burgeoning academic interest in recent years. This article draws on interviews with Australians who identify as regular self-trackers, examining the ways in which they describe their...
Becoming Airbnbeings: on datafication and the quantified Self in tourism
Author(s): Minca, ClaudioRoelofsen, Maartje Abstract: Provocatively drawing inspiration from an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror and China’s Social Credit System this article critically examines the politics and practices of datafication, quantification and...
Personalization in Real-Time Physical Activity Coaching Using Mobile Applications: A Scoping Review
Author(s): Francisco Monteiro-Guerra Octavio Rivera-Romero Luis Fernandez-Luque Brian Caulfield Abstract: Mobile monitoring for health and wellness is becoming more sophisticated and accurate, with an increased use of real-time personalization technologies that may...
Measurement, self-tracking and the history of science: An introduction
Author(s): Sysling, Fenneke Abstract: This article introduces the papers contained in this special issue and explores a new field of interest in the history of science: that of measurement and self-making. In this special issue, we aim to show that a focus on...
Learning for a Healthier Lifestyle Through Gamification: A Case Study of Fitness Tracker Applications
Author(s): Aylin Ilhan Kaja Joanna Fietkiewicz Abstract: Nowadays, many people have to increasingly deal with the question “How can I improve my health?” Fortunately, the market for wearable technologies (e.g., Fitbit or Garmin) supports people by enabling them to...
Smartphones in Personal Informatics: A Framework for Self-Tracking Research with Mobile Sensing
Author(s): Sumer S. VaidGabriella M. Harari Abstract: Recent years have seen a growth in the spread of digital technologies for self-tracking and personal informatics. Smartphones‚ in particular, stand out as being an ideal self-tracking technology that permits both...
Recommender systems for IoT enabled quantified-self applications
Author(s): Erdeniz, Seda PolatMenychtas, AndreasMaglogiannis, IliasFelfernig, AlexanderTran, Thi Ngoc Trang Abstract: As an emerging trend in big data science, applications based on the Quantified-Self (QS) engage individuals in the self-tracking of any kind of...