The thing-power of the human-app health assemblage: thinking with vital materialism
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Hundreds of thousands of apps are now available that have been designed to monitor, manage or improve users’ health. In this article, I draw on feminist new materialist perspectives, and particularly the vital materialism offered...
Creating ‘automatic subjects’: Corporate wellness and self-tracking
Author(s): Till, Christopher Abstract: The use of self-tracking devices has increased dramatically in recent years with enthusiasm from the public as well as public health officers, healthcare providers and workplaces seeking to instigate behaviour change in...
A New Quantified Self: Embodied Pedagogy and Artistic Practice
Author(s): Liat Berdugo Megan V. Nicely Abstract: We live in an age of the ‘quantified self’, where activities, moods, and consumer habits are increasingly tracked. Accelerometers in devices like FitBit chart our activity, GPS-trackers locate us, and advertising...
Use of Health Apps and Wearable Devices: Survey Among Italian Associations for Patient Advocacy
Author(s): Paola MosconiSilvia RadrezzaEmanuele LettieriEugenio Santoro Abstract: Background: Technological tools such as Web-based social networks, telemedicine, apps, or wearable devices are becoming more widespread in health care like elsewhere. Although patients...
Evaluation of Wearable Digital Devices in a Phase I Clinical Trial
Author(s): Elena S. Izmailova, Ian L. McLean, Gaurav Bhatia, Greg Hather, Matthew Cantor, David Merberg, Eric D. Perakslis, Christopher Benko, John A. Wagner Abstract: We assessed the performance of two US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k)-cleared wearable...
A general and adaptive robust loss function
Author(s): Barron, Jonathan T. Abstract: We present a generalization of the Cauchy/Lorentzian, Geman-McClure, Welsch/Leclerc, generalized Charbonnier, Charbonnier/pseudo-Huber/L1-L2, and L2 loss functions. By introducing robustness as a continuous parameter, our loss...
Will I or Will I Not? Explaining the Willingness to Disclose Personal Self-Tracking Data to a Health Insurance Company
Author(s): von Entreß-Fürsteneck, MatthiasBuchwald, ArneUrbach, Nils Abstract: Users of digital self-tracking devices increasingly benefit from multiple services related to their self-tracking data. Vice versa, new digital as well as "offline" service providers, such...
Visions and Challenges in Managing and Preserving Data to Measure Quality of Life
Author(s): Estrada-Galinanes, VeroWac, Katarzyna Abstract: Health-related data analysis plays an important role in self-knowledge, disease prevention, diagnosis, and quality of life assessment. With the advent of data-driven solutions, a myriad of apps and Internet of...
Exploring the Future Role of Self-Tracking Data in the Rheumatology Clinic
Author(s): William Hue Simon Jones Raj Sengupta Abstract: Despite enormous growth in the use of consumer self-tracking devices, the data that many patients collect about their condition is seldom integrated into conversations that take place in the clinic. In this...
Self-tracking data as digital traces of identity: A theoretical analysis of contextual factors of self-observation practices
Author(s): Kneidinger-Müller, Bernadette Abstract: Digital traces occur as a consequence of using digital devices or applications, but they can also be produced intentionally, as in the case of self-tracking activities. Self-tracking increases the amount of data that...