Mobile Awareness: Design for Connectedness
Author(s) Ghajargar, Maliheh Gargiulo, Eleonora Giannantonio, Roberta Abstract: This article describes our ongoing research project about design for behavior change, which is facilitated by Ubiquitous Computing technologies. In particular in this paper we discuss the...
Sleep Monitoring Tools at Home and in the Hospital: Bridging Quantified Self and Clinical Sleep Research
Author(s): Vandenberghe, BertGeerts, David Abstract: The quantified self movement suggests solutions for diverse long-term measurements, including sleep monitoring. However, those solutions do not seem to meet the challenges facing clinical sleep research. Where...
Sleep Monitoring Tools at Home and in the Hospital: Bridging Quantified Self and Clinical Sleep Research
Author(s): Vandenberghe, BertGeerts, David Abstract: The quantified self movement suggests solutions for diverse long-term measurements, including sleep monitoring. However, those solutions do not seem to meet the challenges facing clinical sleep research. Where...
Self-tracking as communication
Author(s): Lomborg, StineFrandsen, Kirsten Abstract: Self-tracking has attracted a lot of attention from researchers and public opinion makers owing to its potential for improving life conditions through preemptive action on health, and as a tool of user empowerment...
Who Needs a Doctor Anymore? Risks and Promise of Mobile Health Apps
Author(s): Huuskonen, PerttiHäkkilä, JonnaCheverst, Keith Abstract: Personal health monitoring is a hot topic. With bracelets and other wearables, we keep track of our heart rate, exercising, sleep, and more. We are becoming our own doctors and coaches. Improving...
Uncovering everyday rhythms and patterns: Food tracking and new forms of visibility and temporality in health care
Author(s): Ruckenstein, Minna Abstracts: This chapter demonstrates how ethnographically-oriented research on emergent technologies, in this case self-tracking technologies, adds to Techno- Anthropology's aims of understanding techno-engagements and solving problems...
Personal health technologies, micropolitics and resistance: A new materialist analysis
Author: Fox, Nick J. Abstract: Personal health technologies are near-body devices or applications designed for use by a single individual, principally outside healthcare facilities. They enable users to monitor physiological processes or body activity, are frequently...
Doctor-scientist-patients who barketh not: The quantified self-movement and crowd-sourcing research
Author: Forsdyke, Donald R. Document: https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12425 References: 1. Jones, D. S. & Podolsky, S. H. (2015) The history and fate of the gold standard. Lancet, 385, 1503–1504. 2. Appelboom, G., LoPresti, M., Reginster, J.-Y., Connolly, E. S. &...
Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk and consumption
Author(s): Thomas, Gareth M.Lupton, Deborah Abstracts: In this article, we draw on the findings of a critical discourse analysis of pregnancy-related mobile software applications designed for smartphones (‘apps’) to examine how such apps configure pregnant embodiment....
Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device
Author: Crawford, KateLingel, JessaKarppi, Tero Abstract: The recent proliferation of wearable self-tracking devices intended to regulate and measure the body has brought contingent questions of controlling, accessing and interpreting personal data. Given a...