Measuring commitment to self-tracking: development of the C2ST scale
Author(s): Elçin HancıJoyca LacroixPeter A. M. RuijtenAntal HaansWijnand IJsselsteijn Abstract: Self-tracking technologies bring a new set of experiences into our lives. Through sensors and ubiquitous measurements of bodily performance, a new form of automation...
A more‐than‐human approach to bioethics: The example of digital health
Author(s): Deborah Lupton Abstract: Digital health technologies are often advocated as a way of helping people monitor, promote and manage their health, care for others and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Yet these technologies have also been subject to...
Facilitating physical activity through on-site quantified-self data sharing
Author(s): Yang, Nanvan Hout, GerbrandFeijs, LoeChen, WeiHu, Jun Abstract: With the development of sensing technology and the popularization of quantified-self devices, there are increasing types of health-related data that can be sensed, visualized and presented to...
The fragility of curating a pioneer community: Deep mediatization and the spread of the Quantified Self and Maker movements
Author(s): Hepp, Andreas Abstract: The aim of this article is to reconstruct the ways in which the organizational elites of the Quantified Self and Maker movements curate their respective pioneer communities. Based on a media ethnography carried out in Germany, the...
Quantified Self-Using Consumer Wearable Device: Predicting Physical and Mental Health
Author(s): Pardamean, BensSoeparno, HaryonoBudiarto, ArifMahesworo, BharunoBaurley, James Abstract: Objectives: Recently, wearable device technology has gained more popularity in supporting a healthy lifestyle. Hence, researchers have begun to put significant efforts...
Digital inequalities in the use of self-tracking diet and fitness apps: Interview study on the influence of social, economic, and cultural factors
Author(s): Régnier, FaustineChauvel, Louis Abstract: Background: Digital devices are driving economic and social transformations, but assessing the uses, perceptions, and impact of these new technologies on diet and physical activity remains a major societal...
A Life of Data: Characteristics and Challenges of Very Long Term Self-Tracking for Health and Wellness
Author(s): Jochen MeyerJudy KayDaniel A. EpsteinParisa EslambolchilarLie Ming Tang Abstract: As self-tracking has evolved from a niche movement to a mass-market phenomenon, it has become possible for people to track a broad range of activities and vital parameters...
Student discourse on digital self-tracking: Rhetorics and practices
Author(s): Evgeniya G. Nim Abstract: The article examines how Russian students comprehend and use digital technologies for self-tracking (mobile apps, smart wristbands, smartwatches) allowing them to receive behavioral biometrics data. The study presents the results...
What Gets Measured Gets Done: Can Self-Tracking Technologies Enhance Advice Compliance?
Author(s): Wittkowski, KristinaKlein, Jan F.Falk, TomasSchepers, Jeroen J.L.Aspara, JaakkoBergner, Kai N. Abstract: Self-tracking technologies (STTs) in the form of smart devices and mobile applications enable consumers to monitor, analyze, and interpret personal...
Changing emotional engagement with running through communal self-tracking: the implications of ‘teleoaffective shaping’ for public health
Author(s): Spotswood, FionaShankar, AviPiwek, Lukasz Abstract: Emerging research explores the role of self-tracking in supporting healthy behaviour. Self-tracking comprises a number of interrelated practices; some individual some communal. In this article, we focus on...
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