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Self-Tracking (Paperback)
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
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What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data:
an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of
self-tracking. 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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