03147cam a2200457 i 4500 18948169 BJBSDDR 20260217104748.0 ta 160126s2016 maua b 001 0 eng 2015039937 9780262529129 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc TK 7882 N383s 2016 610.285 Neff, Gina, 1971- author. 42221 Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016] xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier The MIT Press essential knowledge series Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 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. Patient self-monitoring. Self-monitoring. Self-care, Health Technological innovations. Medical telematics. Medical innovations Social aspects. Information technology Social aspects. Tecnología portátil Aspectos sociales 47105 Innovaciones tecnológicas Aspectos sociales 1631 Nafus, Dawn 42222 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123565 123565 0 0 lcc 0 0 CT BJB BJB HU 2025-05-23 0 TK 7882 N383s 2016 00000192827 2025-05-23 00:00:00 1 2025-05-23 BK