Towards interactional symbiosis: Epistemic balance and co-presence in a quantified self-experiment
Author(s): Nicolas RolletVarun JainChristian LicoppeLaurence Devillers Abstract: In the frame of an experiment dealing with quantified self and reflexivity, we collected audio-video data that provide us with material to discuss the ways in which the participants would...
Trust and privacy in the context of user-generated health data
Author(s): Ostherr, Kirsten Borodina, Svetlana Bracken, Rachel Conrad Lotterman, Charles Storer, Eliot Williams, Brandon Abstract: This study identifies and explores evolving concepts of trust and privacy in the context of user-generated health data. We define...
Implementing 360° Quantified Self for childhood obesity: Feasibility study and experiences from a weight loss camp in Qatar
Author(s): Fernandez-Luque, LuisSingh, MeghnaOfli, FerdaMejova, Yelena A.Weber, IngmarAupetit, MichaelJreige, Sahar KarimElmagarmid, AhmedSrivastava, JaideepAhmedna, Mohamed Abstract: Background The explosion of consumer electronics and social media are facilitating...
Interactionism and digital society
Author: William Housley Robin James Smith Abstract: In this article we consider the extent to which interactionist ideas can inform the analysis of current socio-technical trends and practices that surround the emerging contours of digital society. We make reference...
Self-tracking and mobile media: New digital materialities
Author(s): Pink, S.Fors, V. Abstract: In this article we take the novel step of bringing together recent scholarship about mobile media and communications with new ethnographic research and scholarship about mobile self-tracking. The correspondences and entanglements...
How does health feel? Towards research on the affective atmospheres of digital health
Author: Deborah Lupton Abstract: The concept of affective atmospheres has recently emerged in cultural geography to refer to the feelings that are generated by the interactions and movements of human and nonhuman actors in specific spaces and places. Affective...
Quantifying the Changeable Self: The Role of Self-Tracking in Coming to Terms With and Managing Bipolar Disorder
Author(s): Matthews, MarkMurnane, ElizabethSnyder, Jaime Abstract: There has been a recent increase in the development of digital self-tracking tools for managing mental illness. Most of these tools originate from clinical practice and are, as a result, largely...
Regulating wellbeing in the brave new quantified workplace
Author(s): P. Moore L. Piwek Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to lay out the conceptual issues arising alongside the rise of sensory technologies in workplaces designed to improve wellness and productivity. Design/methodology/approach: This is a text...
Health experience model of personal informatics: The case of a quantified self
Author(s): Dong-Hee ShinFrank Biocca Abstract: The “quantified self” movement and wearable devices with health monitoring and activity tracking functions are experiencing increased popularity, as they allow users to become more aware of their health-related behavior....
Making sense with sensors: Self-tracking and the temporalities of wellbeing
Author(s): Martin Berg Abstract: Self-tracking devices and apps often measure and provide interpretations of personal data in a rather straightforward way, for instance by visualising the speed and distance of a run or the quality of sleep during night. There is,...