[Last modified: December, 9 2024 03:45 AM]
background
Wearable self-health monitoring devices usually refer to a type of devices which are wearable and have the function of data collection and dealing and can quantify users’ physical information. In the qualitative research on wearers of wearable health monitoring devices, there is no lack of attention to this self-health monitoring behavior. On the one hand, it affirms the technical discipline and media interaction in the process, and on the other hand, points out the essence of cybernetics behind the datalization of the body. Some studies pointed out the possible privacy problems of such monitoring behaviors, social control and technical failure and other social risks. However, these studies pay less attention to the “digital body” and “technical body” shaped by the wearer and their interaction with the physical body.
Compared with those who must monitor their health conditions in real time due to health problems, the concepts and behavioral logic of those who actively choose to wear health monitoring devices without necessity better reflect the results of the combination of the new body concept with digital and information technology.
After wearing intelligent monitoring devices, on the one hand, a digital body constructed by the monitoring results is born. On the other hand, the physical body is reduced from the subject to the object to be recognized, and the body combined with technology becomes the Cyborg, achieving the subjective status in the cognitive process. There are complex relationships among physical body, technology and digital body: digital body is constructed by monitoring results; The physical body becomes the object of cognition; The technical body takes the lead.
Problems
What is the specific process by which users of wearable health monitoring devices use devices to “quantify themselves” and construct new Cyborg bodies?
How do these body agents interact with each other?
What are the experiences and feelings that come with it?
How does self-monitoring during this period relate to the discipline and control of society?
Methods
Generation of network ethnography: I will enter wearable device APPs, online community, etc. to record the interaction process of wearers through the digital identity generated by wearable health monitoring devices and expand the field to the whole virtual community.
Actual field research: The actual field data were completed by semi-structured in-depth interviews with the wearers during the tracking period. However, in my opinion, long-term observation is still an irreplaceable research method, so the author will still follow the wearer relatively closely.
Quantity methods: Use statistical auxiliary qualitative techniques to collect a larger sample pool for descriptive statistics, analyze the time, quantity, use, psychology, etc. of their wearing, and roughly obtain user portraits. After summarizing the questionnaire, qualitatively survey about 20-30 device users.
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questionaire
What devices do you use?
How long have you been using for your device?
Why do you try to use it?
Please describe your beginning.
What do you use it for?
Do you mind your devices’ outlook?
How often do you look at your device?
Do you link your devices with digital APPs?
Have you joined any communities?
What is your mood when you use your device?