Solving Big Data Challenges for Enterprise Application Performance Management
Author(s): Rabl, TilmannSadoghi, MohammadJacobsen, Hans-ArnoGómez-Villamor, SergioMuntés-Mulero, VictorMankowskii, Serge Abstract: As the complexity of enterprise systems increases, the need for monitoring and analyzing such systems also grows. A number of companies...
Elements of a Sociological Contribution to Happiness Studies
Author: Bartram, David Abstract: A significant body of social-science research on happiness has accrued in recent decades, produced mainly by economists and psychologists. Sociologists, however, have made more limited contributions to "happiness studies". This paper...
Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales
Author(s): Diener, EdInglehart, RonaldTay, Louis Abstract: National accounts of subjective well-being are being considered and adopted by nations. In order to be useful for policy deliberations, the measures of life satisfaction must be psychometrically sound. The...
Applying quantified self approaches to support reflective learning
Author(s): Rivera-Pelayo, VerónicaZacharias, ValentinMüller, LarsBraun, Simone Abstract: This paper presents a framework for technical support of reflective learning, derived from a unification of reflective learning theory with a conceptual framework of Quantified...
The Category of the Daily Life* Contemporary theoretical and methodological perspectives
Author(s): Gèza Bánffy Abstract: The purpose of this study is to draw attention upon the category of the daily life, the clue of a possible contemporary philosophical synthesis. The daily life – the everyday occurrence, as an ontological reality, category and...
On Sociomateriality
Author(s): Faulkner, PhilipRunde, Jochen Abstract: This chapter examines the foundations of the emerging sociomateriality perspective via a critical analysis of three of its guiding themes: relationality, interpenetration, and " agential cuts." The chapter argues that...
Personal Health and Consumer Informatics
Author(s): Guardia A. Boyer C. Abstract: Objectives To summarize current outstanding research in the field of Personal Health and Consumers Informatics. Methods A selection of excellent research articles published in 2011 in the field of Personal Health Informatics...
Understanding my data, myself
Author(s): Li, IanDey, Anind KForlizzi, Jodi Abstract: This study explores whether different religions experience different levels of happiness and life satisfaction and in case this is affected by country economic and cultural environment. Using World Value Survey...
Understanding my data, myself: supporting self-reflection with ubicomp technologies
Authors: Ian Li Jodi Forlizzi Anind K. Dey Abstract: We live in a world where many kinds of data about us can be collected and more will be collected as Ubicomp technologies mature. People reflect on this data using different tools for personal informatics. However,...
Passively Recognising Human Activities Through Lifelogging
Author(s): Aiden R. Doherty Niamh Caprani Ciarán ÓConaire Vaiva Kalnikaite Cathal Gurrin Alan F. Smeaton Noel E. O’Connor Abstract: Lifelogging is the process of automatically recording aspects of one’s life in digital form. This includes visual lifelogging using...