Self-Tracking

by Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529122
• ISBN13: 9780262529129
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher