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1 online resource |
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Digital culture books |
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Digital culture books.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index. |
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In the age of Apple Watches and Fitbits, the concept of "health" emerges through an embodied experience of a digital health device or platform, not simply through the biomedical data it provides. Sensing Health: Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies analyzes popular digital health technologies as aesthetic experiences to understand how these devices and platforms have impacted the way individuals perceive their bodies, behaviors, health, and wellbeing. By tracing design alongside embodied experiences of digital health, Kressbach shows how these technologies aim to quantify, track and regulate the body, while at the same time producing moments that bring the body's affordances and relationship to the fore. This mediated experience of "health" may offer an alternative to biomedical definitions that define health against illness. To capture and analyze digital health experiences, Kressbach develops a method that combines descriptive practices from Film and Media Studies and Phenomenology. After examining the design and feedback structures of digital health platforms and devices, the author uses her own first-person accounts to analyze the impact of the technology on her body, behaviors, and perception of health. Across five chapters focused on different categories of digital health-menstrual trackers, sexual wellness technologies, fitness trackers, meditation and breathing technologies, and posture and running wearables-Sensing Health demonstrates a method of analysis that acknowledges and critiques the biomedical structures of digital health technology while remaining attentive to the lived experiences of users. Through a focus on the intersection of technological design and experience, this method can be used by researchers, scholars, designers, and developers alike. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Open access |
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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Activity trackers (Wearable technology) -- Psychological aspects.
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Self-care, Health.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women -- Mental health.
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Self Care |
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Autothérapie.
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Femmes -- Santé mentale.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Self-care, Health
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Women -- Mental health
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Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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Bodies, data, and digital health technologies |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kressbach, Mikki. Sensing health Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024 9780472076598 (DLC) 2023035008 |
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9780472904013 (ebook) |
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0472904019 |
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9780472076598 (hardcover) |
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9780472056590 (paperback) |
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10.3998/mpub.12744203 doi |
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AU@ 000075359739 |
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