Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life.
Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital …

This chapter seeks to explore how the “data self” is experienced by users and how self-
tracking practices serve to restructure bodily experience. The aim of this chapter is to …

The widespread availability of portable sensing devices has given rise to growing numbers
of people voluntarily self-tracking their daily experiences through the medium of digital data …

Currently self-tracking systems, that sense and infer data about an individual or 'the self',
focus on gathering quantitative data about the body. The social features present in these …

This paper critically examines the use of digital technologies to track physiological
processes (heart rate, physical activity, sleep), daily routines and behaviours (hydration …

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 …

Digital health technologies, self-tracking devices and social media platforms enable a
variety of ways to represent 'health'. Such practices are often celebrated as empowering …

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new
adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self …

Self-tracking is becoming a prominent and ubiquitous feature in contemporary practices of
health and wellness management. Over the last few years, we have witnessed a rapid …

In this chapter I examine the concepts and uses of data as they are expressed in
representations of self-tracking (otherwise known as life logging, the quantified self or …