Activity Self-Tracking with Smart Phones: How to Approach Odd Measurements?
Author(s): Villalobos-Zúñiga, GabrielaCherubini, Mauro Abstract: Tracking physical activity reliably is becoming central to many research efforts. In the last years specialized hardware has been proposed to measure movement. However, asking study participants to carry...
Long-term Compliance Habits: What Early Data Tells Us
Author(s): Faust, Louis Jiménez, Priscilla Hachen, David Lizardo, Omar Striegel, Aaron Chawla, Nitesh V Abstract: The rise in popularity of physical activity trackers provides extensive opportunities for research on personal health, however, barriers such as...
Self-reflection and personal physicalization construction
Author(s): Thudt, AliceHinrichs, UtaHuron, SamuelCarpendale, Sheelagh Abstract: Self-reflection is a central goal of personal informatics systems, and constructing visualizations from physical tokens has been found to help people reflect on data. However, so far,...
Eat & Tell: A Randomized Trial of Random-Loss Incentive to Increase Dietary Self-Tracking Compliance Palakorn
Author(s): Achananuparp, Palakorn Lim, Ee-Peng Abhishek, Vibhanshu Yun, Tianjiao Abstract: A growing body of evidence has shown that incorporating behavioral economics principles into the design of financial incentive programs helps improve their cost-effectiveness,...
Gamification for self-tracking: From World of Warcraft to the design of Personal Informatics systems
Author(s): Rapp, Amon Abstract: World of Warcraft (WoW) may be a source of inspiration to enrich the Personal Informatics systems user's experience and, at the same time, improve gamification design. Through the findings of a four-year reflexive ethnography in WoW, I...
Flexible and mindful self-tracking: Design implications from paper bullet journals
Author(s): Ayobi, AmidSonne, TobiasMarshall, PaulCox, Anna L. Abstract: Digital self-tracking technologies offer many potential benefits over self-tracking with paper notebooks. However, they are often too rigid to support people's practical and emotional needs in...
Deep learning for sentiment analysis: A survey
Author(s): Zhang, Lei Wang, Shuai Liu, Bing Abstract: Deep learning has emerged as a powerful machine learning technique that learns multiple layers of representations or features of the data and produces state‐of‐the‐art prediction results. Along with the success of...
“Find Your Fit”: Wearable technology and the cultural politics of disability
Author(s): Julie Passanante Elman Abstract: By examining advertisements, technological design, workplace wellness programs, and legal discourses involving Fitbit activity trackers, this article examines how cultural ideas about disability infuse the representation,...
A Survey on Neural Network-Based Summarization Methods
Author(s): Dong, Yue Abstract: Automatic text summarization, the automated process of shortening a text while reserving the main ideas of the document(s), is a critical research area in natural language processing. The aim of this literature review is to survey the...
Digital technologies and the biomedicalisation of everyday activities: The case of walking and cycling
Author(s): Carter, SimonGreen, JudithSpeed, Ewen Abstract: Walking and cycling have been transformed by digital technologies, which range from mapping apps for wayfinding, through ‘wearables’ which monitor activity, to social media apps for comparing activity within...