Imagining Personal Data

<p>Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. <em>Imagining Personal Data</em> examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking which attends to its past present and possible future. Building on social science approaches the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working in design philosophy and human-computer interaction. It problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking devices presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory and affective experiences of self-tracking and questions the status of big data. In doing so it proposes an agenda for future research and design that puts people at its centre.</p>