Implications of Wearables, Fitness Tracking Services, and Quantified Self on Healthcare
Author: Katherine Chen Mary Zdorova Dan Nathan-Roberts Ph.D. Abstract: Self-quantifying fitness tracking services and wearable devices have become more ubiquitous but still suffer from high abandonment rates. Wearable devices can monitor the physiological changes of...
Self-Tracking Reconfigurations
Author: Stojanov, Martin Edenius, Mats Abstract: Data produced by sensor-equipped artefacts is often associated with techno-utopian visions of a smooth path from data to insight. We examine how sensors are put into use in practice, through a case study on a...
Review: Dawn Nafus (ed.), Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life
Author(s): Moore, Phoebe Abstract: We have, in the 21st century, moved into a new series of fascinations with biosensing, where our autonomic systems or an autonomic ‘self’, largely out of bounds for our own knowledge and understanding before now, are available....
The Quantified Workplace: A Study in Self-Tracking, Agility, and Change Management
Author(s): Phoebe Moore, Lukasz Piwek Ian Roper Abstract: While self-and other tracking devices are increasingly common in workplaces, they are normally implemented either for explicit productivity and efficiency monitoring (warehouses) or as part of wellness...
Engagement and the Quantified Self: Uneventful Relationships with Ghostly Companions
Author: Ruffino, Paolo Abstract: This chapter looks at the notion of engagement and its interpretation in the development and marketing of self-tracking wearable devices and in the literature on the Quantified Self and gamification. It concludes that the vision...
Self-tracking: Empirical and philosophical investigations
Author(s): Ajana, Btihaj Abstract: Practices of self-tracking and quantification through digital technologies have become commonplace in recent years. With the rapid spread of apps and devices enabling the data capturing and monitoring of the individual’s everyday...
The Datafication of Health
Authors: Minna Ruckenstein Natasha Dow Schüll Abstract: Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; at every turn, there is...
Quantified Self. Self-tracking a Problem Identity
Translated from Polish Author(s): Łukasz Iwasiński Abstract: PURPOSE / THESIS: Self-tracking is the practice of obtaining various data about themselves by individuals, primarily using mobile devices and related applications. The function of self-tracking is to...
Young people’s uses of wearable healthy lifestyle technologies; surveillance, self-surveillance and resistance
Author(s): Goodyear, Victoria A.Kerner, CharlotteQuennerstedt, Mikael Abstract: An international evidence-base demonstrates that healthy lifestyle digital technologies, like exergames, health-related mobile applications (‘apps’) and wearable health devices are being...
Making Sense in the Long Run: Long-Term Health Monitoring in Real Lives
Author(s): Meyer, JochenBeck, ElkeWasmann, MerlinBoll, Susanne Abstract: Long term self monitoring with connected personal health devices offers tremendous opportunities for wellbeing, health, and prevention. However, to date it is not fully understood how users...