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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Quantified Self"”.
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The quantified self : the affect on health behavior from self-tracking
… have demonstrated to be a valuable solution for self tracking and monitoring vital signs, both for recreational and professional health care purposes. This thesis research investigates the opinions of people towards Quantified self, self tracking and self-tracking communities with the purpose of …
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Visual Imprints: Understanding Location Data Through Information Architecture
… about biometric information, there is a larger quantified self movement encompassing any type of personal data collected by any means and recorded and shared in a variety of ways. Participants in this movement are experimenting with new ways to view and interact with their generated digital …
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Link: Designing Activity Tracking Solutions for the Soccer Athlete
The trending quantified self movement has seen the consumer activity tracking market explode over the past few years. These users have become more and more interested in not only tracking their activity but understanding the value of the data captured. Currently, many of these devices are purpose …
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Bio-rhythms / Digi-rhythms: Synthesising the Digitally Mediated Body Through Performative Methodologies
… focuses on contemporary practices of digital self-tracking, popularised through the rise in biometric devices, which enable subjects to track their health in terms of biometric data and movements such as the Quantified Self which provide a platform for individuals to share their health data …
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A privacy-preserving personal sensor data ecosystem
… mobile phone or web browser. A number of example quantified-self and social applications are built on top of this framework to demonstrate feasibility of the system from both development and user perspectives.
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Network design : a theory of scale for ubiquitous computing
… respectively, include: exercise wristwatches and quantified self literature, responsive environments like smart homes and smart offices, and smart city initiatives dealing with sensors placed in urban infrastructure. In each scale, I identify common characteristics of that scale, historical …
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Interactive phototherapy : integrating photomedicine into interactive architecture
… the fields of (I) healthcare innovation, (2) self-tracking or the "quantified self," and (3) interactive architecture would be solved. First, if healthcare systems are to gain greater insight into a number of conditions that are difficult to diagnose or treat, then passive monitoring and …
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Personal Healthcare Agents for Monitoring and Predicting Stress and Hypertension from Biosignals
… easier. This has given rise to the domain of quantified self where we can continuous record and quantify the various signals generated in everyday life. Sensors on smartphones can continuously record our location and motion profile. Sensors on wearable devices can track changes in our bodies’ …
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To and fro : digital data-driven analyses of pedestrian mobility in urban spaces
… urban design-from an analysis of the quantified self toward the understanding of the quantified community.
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Museum-worthy smartwatches: A medical humanities perspective
This thesis focuses on the relationships that bind people to their smartwatches along the Sea Point Promenade in the city of Cape Town. The study identifies smartwatches as objects with immense social, personal, and interpersonal traction. Materiality in anthropology is well explored and offers a …
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Designing for lived experience : a suite of tools for people with Type 1 diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic, patient-managed illness. Type 1 diabetics must maintain near-constant awareness of their blood sugar levels and perform frequent medical interventions in order to remain alive and healthy. Research has shown that symptoms of poor treatment adherence manifest both physically …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… between contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help in order to illuminate key concerns around selfhood and authorship. It seeks to question dominant understandings of the relationship between self-help and fiction which often fail to account for the irreducible multiplicity of ways in …
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Application of Self-Monitoring for Situational Awareness
<p>Self-monitoring devices and services are used for physical wellness, personal tracking and self-improvement. These individual devices and services can only provide information based on what they can measure directly or historically without an intermediate system. This paper proposes a …
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ThemTech: Digital Menstrual Tracking Practices Among Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Users
… and disrupting existing understandings of self-tracking. Through a deconstructionist reading of configuration, an examination of how self-tracking conflates juxtaposed identities, and an investigation into the collaborative efforts of transgender users, technology companies and medical …
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ThemTech: Digital Menstrual Tracking Practices Among Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Users
… and disrupting existing understandings of self-tracking. Through a deconstructionist reading of configuration, an examination of how self-tracking conflates juxtaposed identities, and an investigation into the collaborative efforts of transgender users, technology companies and medical …