Self-Tracking as Knowledge Production: Quantified Self between Prosumption and Citizen Science
Author(s): Nils B. Heyen Abstract: “Self knowledge through numbers“ is the slogan of the growing international Quantified Self movement. This paper deals with the question what kind of knowledge is actually being acquired here and how this knowledge production is to...
You are Your Data: Self-Tracking Practices and Concepts of Data
Author(s): Lupton, Deborah Abstract: In this chapter I examine the concepts and uses of data as they are expressed in representations of self-tracking (otherwise known as life logging, the quantified self or personal informatics).Self-tracking is not only a technology...
To log or not to log? SWOT analysis of self-tracking
Authors: Na Li Frank Hopfgartner Abstract: With more and more wearable devices and smartphone apps being released that are capable of unobtrusively recording various aspects of our life, we are currently witnessing the emergence of a new trend. Followers of this trend...
Wellbeing in the Making: Peoples’ Experiences with Wearable Activity Trackers
Author(s): Evangelos KarapanosRúben GouveiaMarc HassenzahlJodi Forlizzi Abstract: Background Wearable activity trackers have become a viable business opportunity. Nevertheless, research has raised concerns over their potentially detrimental effects on wellbeing. For...
Fostering engagement with Personal informatics systems
Author(s): Gulotta, RebeccaForlizzi, JodiYang, RayoungNewman, Mark W. Abstract: Personal informatics systems are becoming increasingly prevalent as their price, form, and ease of use improves. Though these systems offer great potential value to users, many systems are...
Towards Provenance Capturing of Quantified Self Data
Abstract Quantified Self or self-tracking is a growing movement where people are tracking data about themselves. Tracking the provenance of Quantified Self data is hard because usually many different devices, apps, and services are involved. Nevertheless receiving...
Training to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer
Author(s): Fotopoulou, AristeaO’Riordan, Kate Abstract: In this article, we provide an account of Fitbit, a wearable sensor device, using two complementary analytical approaches: auto-ethnography and media analysis. Drawing on the concept of biopedagogy, which...
Social rhythms of the heart
Author(s): Pantzar, MikaRuckenstein, MinnaMustonen, Veera Abstract: A long-term research focus on the temporality of everyday life has become revitalised with new tracking technologies that allow methodological experimentation and innovation. This article approaches...
Quantified academic selves: The gamification of research through social networking services
Author(s): Hammarfelt, BjörnDe Rijcke, SarahRushforth, Alexander D. Abstract: Introduction: Our study critically engages with techniques of self-quantification in contemporary academia, by demonstrating how social networking services enact research and scholarly...
Activity theory as a theoretical framework for health self-quantification: A systematic review of empirical studies
Author(s): Manal AlmalkiKathleen GrayFernando Martin-Sanchez Abstract: Background: Self-quantification (SQ) is a way of working in which, by using tracking tools, people aim to collect, manage, and reflect on personal health data to gain a better understanding of...