Bibliography

Academic Research About Quantified Self

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Abend, P., & Fuchs, M. (2016). Introduction. The Quantified Self and Statistical Bodies. Digital Culture & Society. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2016-0102

Ajana, B. (2017). Digital health and the biopolitics of the Quantified Self. DIGITAL HEALTH. http://doi.org/10.1177/2055207616689509

Alelyani, S., & Ibrahim, A. (2017). Would quantified self prevent obesity and diabetes among adults in Saudi Arabia? In Informatics, Health & Technology (ICIHT), International Conference on (pp. 1–5).

Almalki, M., Gray, K., & Martin-Sanchez, F. (2016). Activity theory as a theoretical framework for health self-quantification: A systematic review of empirical studies. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(5). http://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5000

Anonymous. (2013). WTF: The commercial benefits of the Quantified Self. PR Week.

Appelboom, G., LoPresti, M., Reginster, J.-Y., Sander Connolly, E., & Dumont, E. P. L. (2014). The quantified patient: a patient participatory culture. Current Medical Research and Opinion. http://doi.org/10.1185/03007995.2014.954032

Barcena, M., Wueest, C., & Lau, H. (2014). How safe is your quantified self? Symantec. http://doi.org/me12010016 [pii]

Barta, K., & Neff, G. (2016). Technologies for Sharing: lessons from Quantified Self about the political economy of platforms. Information, Communication & Society, 19(4), 518–531.

Baumgart, R. (2016). How Does Quantified Self Run? In AMCIS.

Beato, G. (2012). The Quantified Self. Reason. http://doi.org/10.1089/big.2012.0002

Becher, S. (2016). [Quantified self movement–the new mantra of life insurance companies]. Versicherungsmedizin.

Buchanan, K., Lockton, D., & College, R. (2015). Understanding human connectivity and the Quantified Self. Working Papers of the Sustainable Society Network+.

Bushhousen, E. (2014). The Quantified Self Movement and Hospital Librarians. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. http://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2014.861705

Butterfield, A. D. (2012). Ethnographic Assessment of Quantified Self Meetup Group. M.A. Thesis.

Cena, F., Likavec, S., & Rapp, A. (2015). Quantified self and modeling of human cognition. In UbiComp and ISWC 2015 – Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. http://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800954

Choe, E. K., Lee, B., & Schraefel, M. C. (2015). Characterizing Visualization Insights from Quantified Selfers’ Personal Data Presentations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 35(4). http://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2015.51

Choe, E. K., Lee, N. B., Lee, B., Pratt, W., & Kientz, J. A. (2014). Understanding quantified-selfers’ practices in collecting and exploring personal data. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1143–1152).

Cohen, J. (2014). Quantified Self: The algorithm of life. Prospect.

Crawford, K., Lingel, J., & Karppi, T. (2015). Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4–5), 479–496. http://doi.org/10.1177/1367549415584857

Etkin, J. (2016). The Hidden Cost of Personal Quantification. Journal of Consumer Research, 42(6), 967–984. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucv095

Eynon, R. (2015). The quantified self for learning: critical questions for education. Learning, Media and Technology. http://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2015.1100797

Fox, B. I., & Felkey, B. G. (2016). The Quantified Self. Hospital Pharmacy. http://doi.org/10.1310/hpj5102-189

Gilmore, J. N. (2016). Everywear: The quantified self and wearable fitness technologies. New Media & Society, 18(11). http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815588768

Gimpel, H., Nißen, M., & Görlitz, R. A. (2013). Quantifying the quantified self: A study on the motivation of patients to track their own health. Icis 2013, i(3). http://doi.org/10.4156/jdcta.vol4.issue7.6

Grew, J. C., & Svendsen, M. N. (2017). Wireless Heart Patients and the Quantified Self. Body & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X16663005

Haddadi, H., & Brown, I. (2014). Quantified self and the privacy challenge. Technology Law Futures.

Haddadi, H., Ofli, F., Mejova, Y., Weber, I., & Srivastava, J. (2015). 360° Quantified Self. In Proceedings – 2015 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2015. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2015.95

Haddadi, H., Ofli, F., Mejova, Y., Weber, I., & Srivastava, J. (2015). 360-degree Quantified Self. In 2015 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2015.95

Hall, T. S. (2014). THE QUANTIFIED SELF MOVEMENT: LEGAL CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF PERSONAL BIOMETRIC DATA TRACKING. AKRON INTELL. PROP. http://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2007.54.1.23.

Hammarfelt, B., De Rijcke, S., & Rushforth, A. D. (2016). Quantified academic selves: The gamification of research through social networking services. Information Research.

Harris, A., Kelly, S. E., & Wyatt, S. (2016). Autobiologies: making sense of engagements with healthcare technologies. Ea.

Hilviu, D., & Rapp, A. (2015). Narrating the quantified self. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers – UbiComp ’15. http://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800959

Khorakhun, C., & Bhatti, S. N. (2016). MHealth through quantified-self: A user study. In 2015 17th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2015. http://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454520

Kjærgaard, T., & Sorensen, E. K. (2014). Qualifying the quantified self-a study of conscious learning. 9th International Conference on E-Learning, ICEL 2014.

Lee, V. R. (2014). What’s happening in the “quantified self” movement? Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS .

Lee, V. R., Drake, J. R., & Thayne, J. L. (2016). Appropriating Quantified Self Technologies to Support Elementary Statistical Teaching and Learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. http://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2016.2597142
Lomborg, S. (2017). Review of Deborah Lupton’s The Quantified Self and Dawn Nafus’ Quantified. Taylor & Francis.

Lupton, D. (2017). Self-tracking, health and medicine. Health Sociology Review, 26(1). http://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2016.1228149

Lupton, D. (2016). 3D printed self-replicas: Personal digital data made solid. Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666600

Lupton, D. (2016). The diverse domains of quantified selves: self-tracking modes and dataveillance. Economy and Society, 45(1). http://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2016.1143726

Lupton, D. (n.d.). Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies. Critical Public Health. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2013.794931#.UbZvNZN–V4

Lupton, D. (2014). Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics. OZCHI 2014: The 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Designing Futures, the Future of Design, 1–10. http://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686623

Lupton, D. (2013). Understanding the Human Machine [Commentary]. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 32(4), 25–30. Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6679313

Lupton, D. (2013). Emergence and Rise of the Quantified Self. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. http://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2013.2286431

Lupton, D. (2012). The quantified self movement: some sociological perspectives. This Sociological Life: A Blog by Sociologist Deborah Lupton.

Lupton, D., & Jutel, A. (2015). “It”s like having a physician in your pocket!’ A critical analysis of self-diagnosis smartphone apps. Social Science and Medicine, 133. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.004

Marcengo, A., Rapp, A., Abigail, S., Whittaker, S., Allen, A. L., Barbaro, M., … Zhang, J. (2014). Visualization of Human Behavior Data: The Quantified Self. In Innovative Approaches of Data Visualization and Visual Analytics. http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4309-3.ch012

Maturo, A. (2014). M-Health and Quantified Self: developments, potential and risks . Salute E Societa.

Maturo, A. (2014). Measuring life. The quantified self and digital health. Sociologia Della Comunicazione.

Maturo, A. (2014). M-Health e Quantified Self: Sviluppi, potenzialità e rischi. Salute E Societa.

Mcfedries, P. No Title, IEEE Spectrum (2013). http://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2013.6565555

McNeal, M. (2013). SELF TRACKING. Marketing Research.

Mehta, R. (2011). The Self-Quantification Movement – Implications For Health Care Professionals, 2(May), 87–92.

Meyer, J., Simske, S., Siek, K. A., Gurrin, C. G., & Hermens, H. (2014). Beyond quantified self. In Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems – CHI EA ’14. http://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560469

Meyer, J., Simske, S., Siek, K. a., Gurrin, C. G., & Hermens, H. (2014). Beyond quantified self: data for wellbeing. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI EA ’14. http://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2560469

Moore, P., & Robinson, A. (2016). The quantified self: What counts in the neoliberal workplace. New Media & Society, 18(11), 2774–2792. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815604328

Nafus, D., & Sherman, J. (2014). This one does not go up to 11: The quantified self movement as an alternative big data practice. International Journal of Communication, 8(1). http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4309-3.ch012

Nafus, D., & Sherman, J. (2012). This One Does Not Go Up To Eleven : The Quantified Self Movement as an Alternative Big Data Practice Draft currently under review — please contact the authors if you would like to cite.

Newell, B. R., & Shanks, D. R. (2014). Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(1), 1–19.

Oh, J., & Lee, U. (2015). Exploring UX issues in quantified self technologies. In 2015 8th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking, ICMU 2015. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICMU.2015.7061028

Pantzar, M., & Ruckenstein, M. (2015). The heart of everyday analytics: emotional, material and practical extensions in self-tracking market. Consumption Markets & Culture, 18(1), 92–109. http://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2014.899213

Prince, J. D. (2014). The Quantified Self: Operationalizing the Quotidien. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. http://doi.org/10.1080/15424065.2014.909145

Rapp, A., Cena, F., Kay, J., Kummerfeld, B., Hopfgartner, F., Larsen, J. E., & Van Den Hoven, E. (2016). FuturePD. the future of personal data: Envisioning new personalized services enabled by Quantified Self technologies. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Rapp, A., Cena, F., Kay, J., Kummerfeld, B., Hopfgartner, F., Plumbaum, T., & Larsen, J. E. (2015). New frontiers of quantified self. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers – UbiComp ’15. http://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2807947

Rapp, A., Cena, F., Kay, J., Kummerfeld, B., Hopfgartner, F., Plumbaum, T., … Gouveia, R. (2016). New frontiers of Quantified Self 2: Going Beyond Numbers. In Workshop at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016). http://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2968331

Righi, A. (2017). The Corpulence of Self-tracking: The Quantified Self, Derrida, and Writing in the Age of Digital Accountability. Theory & Event, 20(3), 679–698.

Rivera-Pelayo, V., Zacharias, V., Müller, L., & Braun, S. (2012). Applying quantified self approaches to support reflective learning. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge – LAK ’12. http://doi.org/10.1145/2330601.2330631

Ruckenstein, M. (2014). Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles. Societies, 4(1), 68–84. Retrieved from http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/4/1/68/htm

Ruckenstein, M., & Pantzar, M. (2017). Beyond the Quantified Self: Thematic exploration of a dataistic paradigm. New Media & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815609081

Russo, C. R. (2015). The quantified self. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20816-9_49

Sharon, T. (2017). Self-Tracking for Health and the Quantified Self: Re-Articulating Autonomy, Solidarity, and Authenticity in an Age of Personalized Healthcare. Philosophy and Technology, 30(1), 93–121. http://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-016-0215-5

Sharon, T., & Zandbergen, D. (2016). From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data. New Media & Society, 146144481663609. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816636090

Sharon, T., & Zandbergen, D. (2016). From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data. New Media & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816636090

Shin, D. H., & Biocca, F. (2017). Health experience model of personal informatics: The case of a quantified self. Computers in Human Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.019

Sjöklint, M., Constantiou, I. D., & Trier, M. (2015). The Complexities of Self-Tracking – an Inquiry into User Reactions and Goal Attainment. ECIS 2015 Completed Research Papers, (2015).

Smith, G. J. D., & Vonthethoff, B. (2017). Health Sociology Review Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health. Health Sociology Review. http://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2016.1196600

Smith, G. J. D., & Vonthethoff, B. (2017). Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health. Health Sociology Review. http://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2016.1196600

Swan, M. (2013). The Quantified Self. Big Data. http://doi.org/10.1089/big.2012.0002

Swan, M. (2013). The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery. EmTech, 1(2). http://doi.org/10.1089/big.2012.0002

Thornquist, E., & Kirkengen, A. L. (2015). The quantified self: closing the gap between general knowledge and particular case? Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(3), 398–403. http://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12239

Till, C. (2014). Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour. Societies, 4(3), 446–462. http://doi.org/10.3390/soc4030446

van Berkel, N., Luo, C., Ferreira, D., & Goncalves, J. (2015). The curse of quantified-self: an endless quest for answers. 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. http://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800946

van Berkel, N., Luo, C., Ferreira, D., Goncalves, J., & Kostakos, V. (2015). The curse of quantified-self. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers – UbiComp ’15. http://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800946

Van den Bulck, J. (2015). Sleep apps and the quantified self: Blessing or curse? Journal of Sleep Research. http://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12270

Vesnic-Alujevic, L., Breitegger, M., & Guimarães Pereira, Â. (2016). “Do-It-Yourself” Healthcare? Quality of Health and Healthcare Through Wearable Sensors. Science and Engineering Ethics, 1–18. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9771-4

Wang, Y., Weber, I., & Mitra, P. (2016). Quantified Self Meets Social Media. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Health Conference – DH ’16. http://doi.org/10.1145/2896338.2896363

Watson, S. M. (2013). Living with Data: Personal Data Uses of the Quantified Self. Oxford University. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/172418320/Living-With-Data-Personal-Data-Uses-of-the-Quantified-Self

Whooley, M., Ploderer, B., & Gray, K. (2014). “On the Integration of Self-tracking Data amongst Quantified Self Members” (pp. 151–160). http://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.16

Williams, A. D. (2016). Harnessing the quantified self movement for optimal mental health and wellbeing. In Proceedings of the first Workshop on Lifelogging Tools and Applications – LTA ’16. http://doi.org/10.1145/2983576.2983585

Wilson, M. W. (2015). Flashing lights in the quantified self-city-nation. Regional Studies, Regional Science. http://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2014.987542

Yang, Y. (2014). Saving the Quantified Self. Boom: A Journal of California.