Using narratives and numbers in performance prediction: Attitudes, confidence, and validity
Author(s): A. Susan M. NiessenEdgar E. KauselMarvin Neumann Abstract: In a preregistered prediction-task experiment, we investigated the effect of narrative versus quantified information on decision-maker perceptions, confidence, predictor weighting, and predictive...
Wearable Technologies, Brand Community and the Growth of the Transhumanist Vision
Author(s): Duygu Akdevelioglu,Sean Hansen Alladi Venkatesh Abstract: By enabling users to digitally monitor their health and behaviour, wearable technologies foster the perspective of the quantified self, a cultural phenomenon emphasising personal improvement through...
Goal Specificity or Ambiguity? Effects of Self-Quantification on Persistence Intentions
Author(s): Haijiao Shi Rong Chen Abstract: Purpose The current study implies self-quantification to consumer behavior and investigates how self-quantification influences consumers' persistence intentions, then indicates the underlying mechanism and examines the role...
Effect of tailored, daily feedback with lifestyle self-monitoring on weight loss: The SMARTER randomized clinical trial
Author(s): Lora E. Burke, Susan M. Sereika, Bambang Parmanto, Zhadyra Bizhanova, Jacob K. Kariuki, Jessica Cheng, Britney Beatrice, India Loar, I Wayan Pulantara, Yuhan Wang, Maribel Cedillo, Molly B Conroy Abstract: Objective This study aimed to test the...
The Association Between Smartphone App–Based Self-monitoring of Hypertension-Related Behaviors and Reductions in High Blood Pressure: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Author(s) Aikaterini Kassavou Michael Wang Venus Mirzaei Sonia ShpendiRana Hasan Abstract: Background: Self-monitoring of behavior can support lifestyle modifications; however, we do not know whether such interventions are effective in supporting positive...
Sport and Fitness App Uses: A Review of Humanities and Social Science Perspectives
Author(s): Bastien Soulé Gonzalo Marchant Raphaël Verchère Abstract: Sport and fitness mobile applications (SFMAs) have led to significant changes in how people engage in sport and physical activity. This development is part of a broader trend of self-tracking (the...
“Just a Place to Keep Track of Myself”: Eating Disorders, Social Media, and The Quantified Self
Author(s): Amanda K. Greene Lisa M. Brownstone Abstract: In order to better understand the functional significance of pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) online spaces for users, the current study investigates identity performance as it plays out on pro-ED Tumblr and...
Accounting for Who We Are and Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
Author(s): Uwe Vormbusch Abstract: Self-trackers are confronted with economic and cultural uncertainty as two fundamental traits of late-modern capitalism. Coping with uncertainty in this context means the calculative quest for discovering the representational forms...
Using an Individual-Centered Approach to Gain Insights From Wearable Data in the Quantified Flu Platform: Netnography Study
Author(s): Bastian Greshake TzovarasEnric Senabre HidalgoKarolina AlexiouLukaz Baldy Basile MoraneIlona Bussod Melvin Fribourg Katarzyna WacGary WolfMad Ball Abstract: Background: Wearables have been used widely for monitoring health in general, and...
Exploring the Personal Informatics Analysis Gap: “There’s a Lot of Bacon”
Author(s): Jimmy MoorePascal GoffinJason WieseMiriah Meyer Abstract: Personal informatics research helps people track personal data for the purposes of self-reflection and gaining self-knowledge. This field, however, has predominantly focused on the data collection...