Self-tracking /
Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.
- xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An introduction to self-tracking -- What is at stake? The personal gets political -- Making sense of data -- Self-tracking and the technology industry -- Self-tracking and medicine -- Future directions for self-tracking.
"Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. In this book, Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what it means when people turn their everyday experience into data."--Page 4 of cover.
9780262529129
2015039937
Patient self-monitoring. Self-monitoring. Self-care, Health--Technological innovations. Medical telematics. Medical innovations--Social aspects. Information technology--Social aspects.