Self-Tracking
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 sens...
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 sens...
