New Frontiers of Quantified Self 2: Going Beyond Numbers
Author(s): Rapp, AmonCena, FedericaKay, JudyKummerfeld, BobHopfgartner, FrankPlumbaum, TillLarsen, Jakob EgEpstein, Daniel AGouveia, Rúben Abstract: While the Quantified Self (QS) community is described in terms of "self-knowledge through numbers" people are...
Data’s Intimacy: Machinic Sensibility and the Quantified Self
Author: Sun-ha Hong Abstract: Today, machines observe, record, sense the world – not just for us, but sometimes instead of us (in our stead), and even indifferently to us humans. And yet, we remain human. Correlationism may not be up to a comprehensive ontology, but...
Privacy-related decision-making in the context of wearable use
Author: Wieneke, AlexanderLehrer, ChristianeZeder, RaphaelJung, Reinhard Abstract: The widespread use of wearables for self-tracking activities despite potential privacy risks is an intriguing phenomenon. For firms, the data collected from individuals' wearable use...
Who Wants to Self-Track Anyway? Measuring the Relation between Self-Tracking Behavior and Personality Traits
Author(s): Chatzigeorgakidis, GeorgiosCuttone, AndreaLehmann, SuneLarsen, Jakob Eg Abstract: We describe an empirical study of the usage of a mobility self-tracking app, SensibleJournal 2014, which provides personal mobility information to N=796 participants as part...
Appropriating Quantified Self Technologies to Support Elementary Statistical Teaching and Learning
Author(s): Lee, Victor R.Drake, Joel R.Thayne, Jeffrey L. Abstract: Wearable activity tracking devices associated with the Quantified Self movement have potential benefit for educational settings because they produce authentic and granular data about activities and...
A framework for smartphone-enabled, patient-generated health data analysis
Author(s): Shreya S. GollamudiEric J. TopolNathan E. Wineinger Abstract: Background: Digital medicine and smartphone-enabled health technologies provide a novel source of human health and human biology data. However, in part due to its intricacies, few methods have...
Metric Power
Author: Beer, David Abstract: This chapter introduces the concept of metric power. It begins to contextualise this concept by exploring its links to contemporary expansions in the data assemblage. It then focusses upon the role of metrics in relation to questions of...
QS Mapper: A Transparent Data Aggregator for the Quantified Self: Freedom From Particularity Using Two-Way Mappings
Author(s): Uffe Kock Wiil Rasmus Rosenqvist Petersen; Adriana Lukas; Abstract: Quantified Self is a growing community of individuals seeking self-improvement through self-measurement. Initially, personal variables such as diet, exercise, sleep, and productivity are...
Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies: towards a critical research agenda
Author(s): Rich, EmmaMiah, Andy Abstract: In this article, we review critical research on mobile and wearable health technologies focused on the promotion of ‘healthy lifestyles’. We begin by discussing key governmental and policy interests which indicate a shift...
Self-tracking in the Digital Era: Biopower, Patriarchy, and the New Biometric Body Projects
Author(s): Sanders, Rachel Abstract: This article employs Foucauldian and feminist analytics to advance a critical approach to wearable digital health- and activity-tracking devices. Following Foucault’s insight that the growth of individual capabilities coincides...