Everywear: The quantified self and wearable fitness technologies
Author(s): Gilmore, James N. Abstract: What does it mean to wear a routine? This article explores a number of implications for the engagement of wearable fitness technology in everyday life. It straddles both a critical hermeneutic that explores the institutional...
The Complexities of Self-Tracking – An Inquiry into User Reactions and Goal Attainment
Author(s): Sjjklint, MimmiConstantiou, Ioanna DTrier, Matthias Abstract: The activity of self-tracking is an emerging trend that often involves adopting wearable technology. Vendors promise new personal insights and opportunities to optimize health and lifestyle by...
The Complexities of Self-Tracking – An Inquiry into User Reactions and Goal Attainment
Authors: Mimmi Sjöklint Ioanna D Constantiou Matthias Trier Abstract: The activity of self-tracking is an emerging trend that often involves adopting wearable technology. Vendors promise new personal insights and opportunities to optimize health and lifestyle by...
From Objectivity to the Scientific Self
Author(s): de Stefano, Jason Document: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.2.0089 References: Peter Galison, How Experiments End (Chicago: University of Chi-cago Press, 1987), ix. Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics(Chicago: University...
Statistics of the Self: Shaping the Self Through Quantified Self-Tracking
Author(s): Rowse, Lauren M Abstract: Self-tracking practices are growing in popularity worldwide. From heart-rate monitoring to mood tracking, many believe that wearable technologies are making their users more mindful in exclusively positive ways. However, I will...
From Quantified Self To Quantified Neighborhood
Author(s): Kun, PeterMulder, Ingrid Abstract: The past decade has shown a great rise in digital tools to measure various aspects of daily life. Such measured data does not exist in a vacuum and is increasingly integrated in newly designed interactive products....
Characterizing Visualization Insights from Quantified Selfers’ Personal Data Presentations
Author(s): Choe, Eun KyoungLee, BongshinSchraefel, M. C. Abstract: Data visualization and analytics research has great potential to empower people to improve their lives by leveraging their own personal data. However, most quantified selfers (Q-Selfers) are neither...
Characterizing Visualization Insights from Quantified Selfers’ Personal Data Presentations
Author: Choe, Eun Kyoung Lee, Bongshin Schraefel, M.c. Abstract: Data visualization and analytics research has great potential to empower people to improve their lives by leveraging their own personal data. However, most quantified selfers (Q-Selfers) are neither...
Fabricated data bodies: Reflections on 3D printed digital body objects in medical and health domains
Author(s): Deborah Lupton Abstract: The advent of 3D printing technologies has generated new ways of representing and conceptualising health and illness, medical practice and the body. There are many social, cultural and political implications of 3D printing, but a...
Privacy Challenges in the Quantified Self Movement – An EU Perspective
Author(s): Leibenger, DominikMöllers, FrederikPetrlic, AnnaPetrlic, RonaldSorge, Christoph Abstract: The gathering of data about oneself (such as running speed, pulse, breathing rate, food consumption, etc.) is rapidly becoming more popular, and has lead to the catch...