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Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.

By: Neff, Gina, 1971- [author.].

Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].

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BookSeries: MIT Press essential knowledge series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2016]Description: 1 PDF (248 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0262529122; 9780262334693; 9780262529129.Subject(s): Information technology -- Social aspects

| Medical innovations -- Social aspects

| Medical telematics

| Self-care, Health -- Technological innovations

| Self-monitoring

| Patient self-monitoring

Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 610.285 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.

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Welcome to the quantified self -- What is at stake? the personal gets political -- The quantified self as avocation -- The quantified self and the technology industry -- The quantified self and medicine -- Possible futures for the quantified self.

Summary: People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience -- in particular, health and wellness-related experience -- into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others.Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.

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People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience -- in particular, health and wellness-related experience -- into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others.Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.

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Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.

By: Neff, Gina, 1971- [author.].

Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].