Making sense with numbers. Unravelling ethico‐psychological subjects in practices of self‐quantification
Author(s): Pols, JeannetteWillems, DickAanestad, Margunn Abstract: Prevention enthusiasts show great optimism about the potential of health apps to modify peoples’ lifestyles through the tracking and quantification of behaviours and bodily signs. Critical sociologists...
Integrating social scientific perspectives on the quantified employee self
Author(s): Calvard, Thomas Abstract: A key technological trend in big data science is that of the quantified self, whereby individuals can self-track their health and well-being using various sources of information. The aim of this article was to integrate...
Recent Advances in Object Detection in the Age of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Author(s): Agarwal, Shivang Terrail, Jean Ogier Du Jurie, Frédéric Abstract: Object detection-the computer vision task dealing with detecting instances of objects of a certain class (e.g., 'car', 'plane', etc.) in images-attracted a lot of attention from the community...
The quantified-self archive: documenting lives through self-tracking data
Author(s): Trace, Ciaran B.Zhang, Yan Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine the ways in which self-tracking data have meaning and value in and after the life of the creator, including how such data could become part of the larger historical...
Recent Advances in Object Detection in the Age of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Author(s): Agarwal, ShivangTerrail, Jean Ogier DuJurie, Frédéric Abstract: Object detection-the computer vision task dealing with detecting instances of objects of a certain class (e.g., 'car', 'plane', etc.) in images-attracted a lot of attention from the community...
Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models
Author(s): Rocher, LucHendrickx, Julien M.de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre Abstract: While rich medical, behavioral, and socio-demographic data are key to modern data-driven research, their collection and use raise legitimate privacy concerns. Anonymizing datasets through...
A federated EHR network data completeness tracking system
Author(s): Estiri, HosseinKlann, Jeffrey G.Weiler, Sarah R.Alema-Mensah, ErnestJoseph Applegate, R.Lozinski, GalinaPatibandla, NandanWei, KunAdams, William G.Natter, Marc D.Ofili, Elizabeth O.Ostasiewski, BrianQuarshie, AlexanderRosenthal, Gary E.Bernstam, Elmer...
I track, therefore I walk – Exploring the motivational costs of wearing activity trackers in actual users
Author(s): Attig, ChristianeFranke, Thomas Abstract: Personal quantification is one fundamental mechanism of gamification. Activity trackers constitute a prototypic case for studying the psychological dynamics of this mechanism. Despite their high potential to...
How motivational feedback increases user’s benefits and continued use: A study on gamification, quantified-self and social networking
Author(s): Hassan, LobnaDias, AntonioHamari, Juho Abstract: With the increasing provenance of hedonic and social information systems, systems are observed to employ other forms of feedback and design than purely informational in order to increase user engagement and...
Quantified Play: Self-Tracking in Videogames
Author(s): Egliston, Ben Abstract: This essay develops the concept of “quantified play” to describe and analyze the recent practice of self-tracking in the play of videogames. I argue that statistical, self-tracking utilities in videogames shape how gameplay “appears”...
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