This paper argues that first-person data—video, audio, and other data that is recorded from the research...
Tag: wearables
‘It’s Not Just about the Patient’: A ‘360° Feedback’ Ethnography of Chronic Care Knowledge Generation
The paper attempts to offer a method to consistently monitor and capture a data eco-system in the everyday of a patient-caregiver relationship. We offer an account of the capture and intermeshing of different types and quality of data sources and their gainful deflection into a methodological...
The Anthropology of Wearables: The Self, The Social, and the Autobiographical
A wide range of new digital products lumped together under the category of ‘Wearables’ or ‘Wearable Technology’ raises fundamental questions about the way we think about our individual bodies and the species Homo Sapiens. This paper traces three different relationships to what are called the...
Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, the Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections
As predictions about the impact of AI on our futures take over the news, it helps to take a step back and consider previous hype cycles which similarly promised to revolutionize how we live and work. One instructive case is the evolution of the self-tracking market which I examine in my recent...