Examining the links between self-tracking and perfectionism dimensions [PDF]
Background Self-tracking – the collection, storage, analysis, and evaluation of self-related data (e.g., on one’s diet, fitness activities, sports performance, or finances) – is a recent and widespread trend.
Robert Körner, Astrid Schütz
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Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour [PDF]
The recent increase in the use of digital self-tracking devices has given rise to a range of relations to the self often discussed as quantified self (QS).
Chris Till
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The Impact of Mindset on Self-Tracking Experience [PDF]
Self-tracking technologies aim to offer a better understanding of ourselves through data, create self-awareness, and facilitate healthy behavior change. Despite such promising objectives, very little is known about whether the implicit beliefs users may ...
Elçin Hancı +3 more
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Episodic use: Practices of care in self-tracking [PDF]
The development of self-tracking technologies has resulted in a burst of research considering how self-tracking practices manifest themselves in everyday life.
Nanna Gorm, Irina Shklovski
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Commitment to Self-Tracking Among Wearable-Device Users: Validation of the C2ST Scale and Known-Groups Evidence [PDF]
Background/Objectives: Commitment to self-tracking refers to the extent to which individuals are dedicated to the practice of wearable- and app-based self-monitoring.
Jiri Remr
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Digital Self-Evaluation and the Cybernetic Regime: A Sketch for a Materialist Apparatus Analysis [PDF]
Using the example of self-tracking, this paper develops a materialist approach to the methodology of apparatus analysis. It builds on the Foucauldian concept of the apparatus, which it then subdivides into micro apparatus, as a concrete digital ...
Simon Schaupp
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The double-edged sword of self-tracking: investigating factors of technostress in performance-oriented cycling and triathlon [PDF]
This study is dedicated to the investigation of technostress caused by self-tracking in performance-oriented amateur sports and thus addresses a significant research gap in the understanding of stress factors operating in this specific context.
Mirjam Werner, Andreas Bischof
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Editorial: Long-Term Self-Tracking for Life-Long Health and Well-Being [PDF]
Jochen Meyer +4 more
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Exploring entertainment medicine and professionalization of self-care : interview study among doctors on the potential effects of digital self-tracking [PDF]
Background: Nowadays, digital self-tracking devices offer a plethora of possibilities to both healthy and chronically ill users who want to closely examine their body.
Gabriels, Katleen, Moerenhout, Tania
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The Time of the Smartwatch: Taking Care or Wasting Time?
The aim of this article — drawing on qualitative methodology — is to enlarge self-tracking studies, thus to problematise the management of time required to produce reliable and interpretable data.
Letizia Zampino
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