Digital bodies
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Human bodies have always interacted with technologies. However, the nature of the technology has changed over the millennia. In the contemporary digital era, bodies are digitized, both by individuals on their behalf and by other...
Robust Automated Human Activity Recognition and its Application to Sleep Research
Author(s): Sathyanarayana, AartiOfli, FerdaFernandes-Luque, LuisSrivastava, JaideepElmagarmid, AhmedArora, TeresaTaheri, Shahrad Abstract: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a powerful tool for understanding human behaviour. Applying HAR to wearable sensors can...
Digital health and the biopolitics of the Quantified Self
Author: Btihaj Ajana Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an intensive growth of systems of measurement and an increasing integration of data processes into various spheres of everyday life. From smartphone apps that measure our activity and sleep, to digital devices...
Know Thyself: A Theory of the Self for Personal Informatics
Author: Amon Rapp Maurizio Tirassa Abstract: Although Personal Informatics stresses the importance of “self”-awareness and “self”-knowledge in collecting personal data, a description of the “self,” to which all these knowledge endeavors are addressed, is missing in...
The datafied Child: The Dataveillance of Children and Implications for their Rights
Authors: Deborah Lupton Ben Williamson Abstract: Children are becoming the objects of a multitude of monitoring devices that generate detailed data about them, and critical data researchers and privacy advocates are only just beginning to direct attention to these...
Motivation and user engagement in fitness tracking: Heuristics for mobile healthcare wearables
Author(s): Stavros Asimakopoulos Grigorios Asimakopoulos Frank Spillers Abstract: Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation...
The Effect of Religiosity on Life Satisfaction in a Secularized Context: Assessing the Relevance of Believing and Belonging
Author(s): ten Kate, Josjede Koster, Willemvan der Waal, Jeroen Abstract: The positive relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction is well-established. This relationship is, however, likely to vary across cultural contexts and different religious...
Semi-Automated Tracking: A Balanced Approach for Self-Monitoring Applications
Author(s): Choe, Eun KyoungAbdullah, SaeedRabbi, MashfiquiThomaz, EdisonEpstein, Daniel A.Cordeiro, FeliciaKay, MatthewAbowd, Gregory D.Choudhury, TanzeemFogarty, JamesLee, BongshinMatthews, MarkKientz, Julie A. Abstract: The authors present an approach for designing...
Personal data practices in the age of lively data
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: In this chapter I discuss the ways in which people engage with the data that are generated from their interactions with online technologies and digital sensing and communication devices. Due to the reactive and responsive nature of...
Deep Learning for Health Informatics
Author(s): Daniele Rav Charence Wong Fani Deligianni Melissa Berthelot Javier Andreu-Perez Benny Lo Guang-Zhong Yang Abstract: With a massive influx of multimodality data, the role of data analytics in health informatics has grown rapidly in the last decade. This has...