by Research Team | Oct 10, 2017 | Research Publications
Author(s): Moore, Phoebe Abstract: We have, in the 21st century, moved into a new series of fascinations with biosensing, where our autonomic systems or an autonomic ‘self’, largely out of bounds for our own knowledge and understanding before now, are available....
by Research Team | Oct 4, 2017 | Research Publications
Author: Ruffino, Paolo Abstract: This chapter looks at the notion of engagement and its interpretation in the development and marketing of self-tracking wearable devices and in the literature on the Quantified Self and gamification. It concludes that the vision...
by Research Team | Oct 4, 2017 | Research Publications
Author(s): Ajana, Btihaj Abstract: Practices of self-tracking and quantification through digital technologies have become commonplace in recent years. With the rapid spread of apps and devices enabling the data capturing and monitoring of the individual’s everyday...
by Research Team | Oct 3, 2017 | Research Publications
Authors: Minna Ruckenstein Natasha Dow Schüll Abstract: Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; at every turn, there is...
by Research Team | Sep 22, 2017 | Research Publications
Author(s): Goodyear, Victoria A.Kerner, CharlotteQuennerstedt, Mikael Abstract: An international evidence-base demonstrates that healthy lifestyle digital technologies, like exergames, health-related mobile applications (‘apps’) and wearable health devices are being...