The Mining Minds digital health and wellness framework
Author(s): Oresti BanosMuhammad Bilal AminWajahat Ali KhanMuhammad AfzalMaqbool Hussain Abstract: Background The provision of health and wellness care is undergoing an enormous transformation. A key element of this revolution consists in prioritizing prevention and...
How Does Quantified Self Run?
Author(s): Baumgart, Ruth Abstract: While self-tracking applications are often advertised with a healthier life and more movement scant studies investigate the effect of self-tracking and those few studies reported contradictory reactions of self-tracking users....
Exploratory study of the implications of research on the use of smart connected devices for prevention: A scoping review
Author(s): Petit, AudreyCambon, Linda Abstract: Background: Smart devices and mobile applications are now an integral part of all aspects of everyday life. They are particularly numerous in the field of health, contributing to the movement called ehealth. What is the...
Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health
Author(s): Smith, Gavin J.D.Vonthethoff, Ben Abstract: The widespread availability of portable sensing devices has given rise to growing numbers of people voluntarily self-tracking their daily experiences through the medium of digital data. At the extreme end of this...
Are we fit yet? English adolescent girls’ experiences of health and fitness apps
Author(s): Depper, AnnaleiseHowe, P. David Abstract: In recent years, society has witnessed a proliferation of digital technologies facilitate new ways to monitor young people’s health. This paper explores a group of English adolescent girls’ understandings of...
Wearable fitness technology: A structural investigation into acceptance and perceived fitness outcomes
Author(s): Lunney, AbbeyCunningham, Nicole R.Eastin, Matthew S. Abstract: Wearable fitness technologies (WFT) track physical activity, such as steps taken, calories burned and workout intensity, through a device that is typically worn at all times. While the market...
User Experience Design for Green IT Products Through Wearable Computing and Quantified Self
Author(s): Qin, JingyanCao, ShaWang, Xiaohui Abstract: Green IT products collect personal small data by wearable computing and Quantified Self, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE) link the small data with the big data, and transform the user...
Assessing Levels of Attention Using Low Cost Eye Tracking
Author(s): Bækgaard, PerPetersen, Michael KaiLarsen, Jakob Eg Abstract: The emergence of mobile eye trackers embedded in next generation smartphones or VR displays will make it possible to trace not only what objects we look at but also the level of attention in a...
A provenance model for quantified self data
Author(s): Schreiber, Andreas Abstract: Quantified Self became popular in recent years. People are tracking themselves with Wearables, smartphone apps, or desktop applications. They collect, process and store huge amounts of personal data for medical and other...
Lifelogging: Digital self-tracking and lifelogging – between disruptive technology and cultural transformation
Author(s): Selke, Stefan Abstract: The following anthology delivers sound analysis to the theoretical classification of the current societal phenomenon - between innovative, world changing and yet disruptive technology, as well as societal and cultural transformation....