Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.

  • Neff, Gina, 1971-
Date:
[2016]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Physical description

xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

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Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WB327 2016N38s
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780262529129
  • 0262529122