Does your health really benefit from using a self-tracking device? Evidence from a longitudinal randomized control trial
Author(s): Stiglbauer, BarbaraWeber, SilvanaBatinic, Bernad Abstract: The use of wearable self-tracking devices to increase health and well-being is on the rise; yet, there is a lack of scientific evidence concerning their actual benefits. This article summarizes...
‘It’s made me a lot more aware’: a new materialist analysis of health self-tracking
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: With the advent of apps, other software and wearable devices designed to enable people to easily monitor and measure details about their bodies, much attention has been paid to the phenomenon of health self-tracking. In this...
The rise of motivational information systems: A review of gamification research
Author(s): Koivisto, JonnaHamari, Juho Abstract: Today, our reality and lives are increasingly game-like, not only because games have become a pervasive part of our lives, but also because activities, systems and services are increasingly gamified. Gamification refers...
Turning Data into Better Decision Making: Asking Questions, Collecting and Analyzing Data in a Personal Analytics Project
Author(s): Joe S. Anderson, Susan K. Williams Abstract: In this project, students asked and attempted to answer questions about themselves by collecting and analyzing data. With the prevalence of big data and business analytics, managers have data and quantitative...
Survival of the (Data) fit: Self-surveillance, corporate wellness, and the platformization of healthcare
Author(s): Charitsis, Vassilis Abstract: The emergence and proliferation of smart sensor technologies has enabled the self-tracking of everyday life in an unprecedented manner as the logic of quantification and datafication extends to diverse aspects of life,...
Fitness for sale: The value of self-tracking in secondhand exchange
Author(s): B Lyall Abstract: This article uses online advertisements to gain retroactive insights into the use and disuse of wearable self-tracking technologies in everyday life. This is achieved by examining over 2700 listings for devices from manufacturers like...
Comparative Latent State–Trait Analysis of Satisfaction with Life Measures: The Steen Happiness Index and the Satisfaction with Life Scale
Author: Kaczmarek, Lukasz D. Bujacz, Aleksandra Eid, Michael Abstract: The variance in satisfaction with life can be broken down into trait- and state-like components. We ran tests to determine if a new scale for the measurement of satisfaction with life, the Steen...
Beyond self-tracking: Exploring and unpacking four emerging labels of patient data work
Author(s): Piras, Enrico Maria Abstract: Despite the growing attention of researchers, healthcare managers and policy makers, data gathering and information management practices are largely untheorized areas. In this work are presented and discussed some early-stage...
On the body of the consumer: performance‐seeking with wearables and health and fitness apps
Author: Hardey, Mariann (Maz) Abstract: Contributing to critical digital health research and the sociology of health consumption, this study investigates the phenomenon of self‐tracking and interpretation of consumer data via wearable technology and mobile fitness...
Averaging weights leads to wider optima and better generalization
Author(s): Izmailov, PavelPodoprikhin, DmitriiGaripov, TimurVetrov, DmitryWilson, Andrew Gordon Abstract: Deep neural networks are typically trained by optimizing a loss function with an SGD variant, in conjunction with a decaying learning rate, until convergence. We...