Essays about: "Self-tracking"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the word Self-tracking.

  1. 11. Visualization of Quantified Self data from Spotify using avatars

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM)

    Author : Stefan Aleksikj; [2018]
    Keywords : Quantified Self; Chernoff faces; avatars; data visualization; Spotify;

    Abstract : The increased interest for self-tracking through the use of technology has given birth to the Quantified Self movement. The movement empowers users to gain self-knowledge from their own data. The overall idea is fairly recent and as such it provides a vast space for exploration and research. READ MORE

  3. 12. Power Nap: Visualising sleep and neoliberal governmentality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Eilidh Urquhart; [2018]
    Keywords : Neoliberalism; sleep; governmentality; reality TV; quantified self; self-tracking; biopolitics; time; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how representations of sleep and sleeplessness in mass culture can be reflective of shifts in the constitution of time and self-image driven by neoliberal capitalism, using Shattered, a reality TV show and Sleep Cycle, a self-tracking app, as points of analysis. The first part of the thesis introduces various discourses around sleep, optimisation and productivity that exist in present day late capitalism, and authors and theorists who have studied them. READ MORE

  4. 13. Using Magic Machines to Elaborate Menstrual Self-Tracker­s for Women with Endometriosis

    University essay from KTH/Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID

    Author : Miriam Afework; [2018]
    Keywords : Self-tracking; Endometriosis;

    Abstract : Existing self-tracking tools for women concentrate on one’s general well-being and keeping track of ovulation and periods. With around 10% of women worldwide suffering from endometriosis there is an unmet need to leverage self-tracking for women whose cycles are affected by more variables. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Digital Turn, a Corporeal Return : Sensory Self-tracking with the Contraceptive App Natural Cycles

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Isa Chen; [2017]
    Keywords : sensory self-tracking; self-monitoring; female embodiment; contraceptive app; fertility tracker; personal data; Social Sciences;

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  6. 15. Visualization of Quantified Self with movement and transport data

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)

    Author : Emil Westin; [2017]
    Keywords : Visualization; Quantified Self; Sustainable HCI; Persuasive technology; Human Computer Interaction;

    Abstract : Transport systems account for a large part of the worlds CO2 emissions. In order to reach goals, set to lower emissions, we need to travel less by car and increase the use of sustainable means of transportation. READ MORE