Self-Tracking
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2016
Summary
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 sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262529129 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262529122 |
| Author: | Gina Neff, Dawn Nafus |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 13mm |
| Series: | MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
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About The Author
Gina Neff
Gina Neff is Professor of Technology & Society at the University of Oxford. She is author of Venture Labor- Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT Press).Dawn Nafus is Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs and the editor of Quantified- Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life (MIT Press).
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