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Self Tracking
Venture Labor
Surviving the New Economy

Technologies for Sharing: lessons from Quantified Self about the political economy of platforms

December 30, 2015

Quantified Self (QS) is a group that coordinates a global set of in-person meetings for sharing personal experiences and experiments with self-tracking behaviours, moods, and activities. Through participation in US-based QS events and watching online QS presentations from around the globe, we identify a function of ambiguous valuation for supporting sharing communities. Drawing on Stark’s […]

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Self-Tracking

October 17, 2015

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 gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, […]

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Keynote Address at Texas A&M on Jobsite Communication

October 17, 2015

I gave a keynote address at an annual research symposium on built environments held by the College of Architecture at Texas A&M.  My colleague Carrie Dossick and I spoke on how visualization and communication tools can address problems at construction jobsites.

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