Quantified-Self 2.0: Using Context-Aware Services for Promoting Gradual Behaviour Change
Author(s): Guo, Li Abstract: The recent development of smartphone and wearable sensor technologies enable general public to carry self-tracking tasks more easily. Much work has been devoted to life data collection and visualisation to help people with better...
Insights From Machine-Learned Diet Success Prediction
Author: Ingmar Weber Palakorn Achananuparp Abstract: To support people trying to lose weight and stay healthy, more and more fitness apps have sprung up including the ability to track both calories intake and expenditure. Users of such apps are part of a wider...
An Ambiguous Health Education: The Quantified Self and the Medicalization of the Mental Sphere
Author(s): Maturo AMori LMoretti V Abstract: It is hard to deny that contemporary society is becoming increasingly medicalized. Mental health is likely the most medicalized sphere. The pathologization of emotions is entangled with the rise of a therapeutic culture....
Front-end device technology for human centric IoT
Author(s): Sawasaki, NaoyukiIshihara, TeruoMouri, MakotoMurase, YuichiMasui, ShoichiNakamoto, Hiroyuki Abstract: We are now in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which all information about humans, things, and the environment is digitized and connected to...
An ontology for quantified self: Capturing the concepts behind the numbers
Author(s): Cena, FedericaLikavec, SilviaRapp, AmonMarcengo, Alessandro Abstract: This paper tackles an important issue of how to use semantic web technologies for Quantified Self (QS). Ontologies offer a great opportunity for data integration and reasoning over data...
Are Happiness and Life Satisfaction Different Across Religious Groups? Exploring Determinants of Happiness and Life Satisfaction
Author(s): Ngamaba, Kayonda HubertSoni, Debbie Abstract: This study explores whether different religions experience different levels of happiness and life satisfaction and in case this is affected by country economic and cultural environment. Using World Value Survey...
Wireless Heart Patients and the Quantified Self
Author: Grew, Julie Christina Svendsen, Mette Nordahl Abstract: Remote monitoring of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients links patients wirelessly to the clinic via a box in their bedroom. The box transmits data from the ICD to a remote database...
Managed forgetting, data condensation & preservation in application
Author Jilek, ChristianSchwarz, SvenMaus, HeikoDengel, Andreas Abstract: With an increasing amount of available sensors lifelogging produces more and more data. Thus, realizing necessary condensation and forgetting processes becomes a challenge. In the last three...
Reconsidering the device in the drawer: Lapses as a design opportunity in personal informatics
Author(s): Epstein, Daniel A.Kang, Jennifer H.Pina, Laura R.Fogarty, JamesMunson, Sean A. Abstract: People stop using personal tracking tools over time, referred to as the lapsing stage of their tool use. We explore how designs can support people when they lapse in...
Health empowerment through activity trackers: An empirical smart wristband study
Author(s): Nelson, Elizabeth C.Verhagen, TibertNoordzij, Matthijs L. Abstract: The increasing popularity of activity trackers has shown a remarkable shift in human computer interaction; individuals seem willing to wear a device that constantly tracks health related...