The Quantified Self (QS) movement and some emerging opportunities for the educational technology field
Author(s): Lee, Victor R Abstract: The Quantified Self (QS) movement is a growing global effort to use new mobile and wearable technologies to automatically obtain personal data about everyday activities. The social and material infrastructure associ- ated with the...
Quantifying the quantified self: A study on the motivation of patients to track their own health
Author(s): Gimpe, HennerNißen, MarciaGörlitz, Roland A. Abstract: A new generation of patient-driven healthcare information systems (HIS) is emerging to advance traditional healthcare services and empower patient self-responsibility. Pro-fessional approaches to...
The irony and re-interpretation of our quantified self
Author(s): Calvo, Rafael A.Peters, Dorian Abstract: The new possibilities afforded by cloud computing infrastructure, with respect to the large amounts of data that can now be collected and processed unobtrusively, have triggered a growing interest in systems that...
Activity recognition for the mind: Toward a cognitive “Quantified Self”
Author: Kunze, KaiIwamura, MasakazuKise, KoichiUchida, SeiichiOmachi, Shinichiro Abstract: Applying mobile sensing technology to cognitive tasks will enable novel forms of activity recognition. Physical activity recognition technology has become mainstream-many...
Big Data and Disease Prevention: From Quantified Self to Quantified Communities
Authors: Barrett, Meredith A.Humblet, OlivierHiatt, Robert A.Adler, Nancy E. Abstract: Big data is often discussed in the context of improving medical care, but it also has a less appreciated but equally important role to play in preventing disease. Big data can...
Tracking the quantified self [Technically Speaking]
Author(s): Mcfedries, Paul Abstract: Self-tracking is not really a tool of optimization but of discovery, and if tracking regimes that we would once have thought bizarre are becoming normal, one of the most interesting effects may be to make us re-evaluate what...
Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Author(s): Gundlach, ErichOpfinger, Matthias Abstract: The empirical relation between happiness and religiosity is considered from the perspective of basic utility theory. An unbalanced cross-country panel data set is used to study whether religiosity can be...
Personal Analytics as a Factor of Change in Enterprise Communication and Collaboration Patterns
Author(s): Serguei Dobrinevski Abstract: Many categories of individual work transactions and activities in an enterprise are directly or indirectly performed through computer-based systems and thus become available for analysis. One possible way to utilize such...
The Digitally Engaged Patient: Self-Monitoring and Self-Care In the Digital Health Era
Author(s): Deborah Lupton Abstract: The phenomenon of digital health has emerged as a key dimension of contemporary healthcare policy and delivery in many countries. This review article focuses on one aspect of digital health discourses: the concept of patient...
The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery
Author(s): Swan, Melanie Abstract: A key contemporary trend emerging in big data science is the quantified self (QS)-individuals engaged in the self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental information as n=1 individuals or in groups....