Lifelogging

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1

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“…In various popular discourses as well as some scholarship on self‐tracking knowledge practices, tracking data is seen as providing access to objectivity about the self and the body, as per the quantified self movement adage of ‘self‐knowledge through numbers’ (Heyen, 2016 ; Sharon, 2016 ). Heyen ( 2016 ) describes the ‘knowledge and data‐producing activities’ of people who practise self‐tracking as ‘personal science’ that ‘attempts to produce verified knowledge’ (p. 297). In these views, the measured numerical data collected through self‐tracking is seen as objective and reliable, providing access to insights that users would otherwise lack.…”

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Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking

Algera

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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Scholars have criticised reproductive self-tracking software applications (apps) for reducing embodied experiences to objective quantifications and leading to user self-alienation. Building on scholarly work that underscores the sensory and affective dimension of self-tracking, this ethnographic study explores how users of contraceptive self-tracking apps come to know their bodies during their everyday tracking practices. By relating tracking data to embodied experiences and relating their experiences back to the data, users produce knowledge of their own lived hormonal physiology. Users learn to articulate how their body feels and acts, foregrounding their body as an instrument of knowing alongside technical devices used. Users also articulate how their body is affected by everyday factors such as personal behaviours, diet, sleep and stress, thereby enacting what I call situated health. By foregrounding people's sensory and affective engagements with their data and their bodies through self-tracking, this study contributes to understanding how reproductive self-tracking may be meaningful to users as well as encourages a move beyond the hierarchical opposition between 'objective' numerical data and embodied, lived experiences.

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Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking

Algera

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…As we focus in this study on lifelogging technologies, in the first step, we briefly outline the definition of the term. Selke [ 1 ] described “lifelogging” as different types of digital self-tracking and recording of everyday life and a phenomenon that can be placed between innovative technologies and cultural transformation. Lifelogging refers to diverse types of self-tracking, ranging from health prevention and the monitoring of bodily functions over one’s location and motion to the measurement of productivity at work and in private life.…”

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“…The current development in information and communication technologies enables a variety of applications in many different contexts. Assisting technologies such as wearable devices as well as lifelogging applications [ 1 ] capable of assisting users in their (smart) home environments or in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) institutions allow for meaningful support in different areas of life [ 2 , 3 ]. Especially within the context of healthcare and social care, lifelogging technology opens up far-reaching opportunities for preventive medicine, diagnostics, therapeutical/rehabilitation measures and allows controlling healthcare cost.…”

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Analyzing technology acceptance and perception of privacy in ambient assisted living for using sensor-based technologies

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People increasingly use various technologies that enable them to ease their everyday lives in different areas. Not only wearable devices are gaining ground, but also sensor-based ambient devices and systems are increasingly perceived as beneficial in supporting users. Especially older and/or frail persons can benefit from the so-called lifelogging technologies assisting the users in different activities and supporting their mobility and autonomy. This paper empirically investigates users’ technology acceptance and privacy perceptions related to sensor-based applications implemented in private environments (i.e., passive infrared sensors for presence detection, humidity and temperature sensors for ambient monitoring, magnetic sensors for user-furniture interaction). For this purpose, we designed an online survey entitled “Acceptance and privacy perceptions of sensor-based lifelogging technologies” and collected data from N = 312 German adults. In terms of user acceptance, statistical analyses revealed that participants strongly agree on the benefits of such sensor-based ambient technologies, also perceiving these as useful and easy to use. Nevertheless, their intention to use the sensor-based applications was still rather limited. The evaluation of privacy perceptions showed that participants highly value their privacy and hence require a high degree of protection for their personal data. The potential users assessed the collection of data especially in the most intimate spaces of domestic environments, such as bathrooms and bedrooms, as critical. On the other hand, participants were also willing to provide complete data transparency in case of an acute risk to their health. Our results suggest that users’ perceptions of personal privacy largely affect the acceptance and successful adoption of sensor-based lifelogging in home environments.

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“…As a possible reason, lacking systematic access to community knowledge has been evoked [ 5 ]. To date, in spite of existing pathways for documentation and exchange—such as community forums, blogs and social media groups, no accumulation of a shared community knowledge base has been observed [ 9 , 16 ].…”

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Co-designing a wiki-based community knowledge management system for personal science

Kloppenborg,

Price Ball,

Jonas

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Personal science is the practice of addressing personally relevant health questions through self-research. Implementing personal science can be challenging, owing to the need to develop and adopt research protocols, tools and methods. While online communities can provide valuable peer support, tools for systematically accessing community knowledge are lacking. The objective of this study is to apply a participatory design process involving a community of personal science practitioners to develop a peer-produced knowledge base that supports the needs of practitioners as consumers and contributors of knowledge. The process led to the development of the Personal Science Wiki, an open repository for documenting and accessing individual self-tracking projects while facilitating the establishment of consensus knowledge. After initial design iterations and a field testing phase, we performed a user study with 21 participants to test and improve the platform, and to explore suitable information architectures. The study deepened our understanding of barriers to scaling the personal science community, established an infrastructure for knowledge management actively used by the community and provided lessons on challenges, information needs, representations and architectures to support individuals with their personal health inquiries.

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Lifelogging

Cited by 105 publications

References 127 publications

Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking

Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking

Analyzing technology acceptance and perception of privacy in ambient assisted living for using sensor-based technologies

Co-designing a wiki-based community knowledge management system for personal science

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