Quantified Factory Worker – Expert Evaluation and Ethical Considerations of Wearable Self-tracking Devices
Author(s): Heikkilä, PäiviHonka, AnitaMach, SebastianSchmalfuß, FranziskaKaasinen, EijaVäänänen, Kaisa Abstract: Following the Quantified Self trend, everyday self-tracking practices have become common. Still, self-monitoring of people at work is a rather new research...
Earables for Personal-Scale Behavior Analytics
Author(s): Fahim Kawsar; Chulhong Min; Akhil Mathur; Alessandro Montanari Abstract: The rise of consumer wearables promises to have a profound impact on peoples lives by going beyond counting steps. Wearables such as eSense-an in-ear multisensory stereo device-for...
Group normalization
Author: Yuxin Wu Kaiming He Abstract: Batch Normalization (BN) is a milestone technique in the development of deep learning, enabling various networks to train. However, normalizing along the batch dimension introduces problems—BN’s error increases rapidly when the...
Academic Metrics and Positioning Strategies
Author(s): Chan, JanetJohns, FleurMoses, Lyria Bennett Abstract: Since the 1980s, higher education institutions in many developed Western countries have been facing competition for resources, have undergone economic rationalisation, adopted a New Public Management...
The gaming healthcare practitioner: How practices of datafication and gamification reconfigure care
Author(s): Iris WallenburgRoland Bal Abstract: This article explores how datafication, as an increasing use of quantified performance data (e.g. performance indicators, rating sites), and social media are enacted in everyday healthcare practice. Drawing on the...
‘Made to run’: Biopolitical marketing and the making of the self-quantified runner
Author(s): Vassilis Charitsis Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk Per Skålén Abstract: While previous critical marketing research on co-creation has focused on how consumers’ cognitive and social abilities are governed, this article focuses on how firms’ marketing strategies attempt...
Self-Quantification and the Datapreneurial Consumer Identity
Author(s): Beth Leavenworth DuFault John W. Schouten Abstract: This study delivers a clearer understanding of the constitution of the datapreneurial consumer, the role of the market in that construction, and the implications for consumer identity projects in the age...
People Like Me: Designing for Reflection on Aggregate Cohort Data in Personal Informatics Systems
Author(s): Clayton FeustelShyamak AggarwalBongshin LeeLauren Wilcox Abstract: Increases in data complexity in personal informatics systems require new ways of contextualizing personal data to facilitate meaningful reflection. An emerging approach for providing such...
Digital preservation and curation of self-tracking data: A position paper
Author: F. HopfgartnerJ. Davidson Abstract: Thanks to recent advances in the field of ubiquitous computing, an increasing number of users now rely on tools and apps that allow them to track specific aspects of their lives. An example are step counters and activity...
Young People’s Perspectives on and Experiences of Health-Related Social Media, Apps, and Wearable Health Devices
Author(s): Victoria A. GoodyearKathleen M. Armour Abstract: It has been reported from numerous international and socio-economic contexts that young people are becoming increasingly interested in and/or using social media, apps, and wearable devices for their health....