dc.contributor.author | Nagele, AN | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hough, J | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Dinnen, Z | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-07T09:07:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-18 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2022-04-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/78727 | |
dc.description.abstract | Self-reported quality and duration of sleep in Western populations is declining. The interest in wearable sleep-trackers that are promis- ing better sleep is growing. By wearing a device day and night the sleeper is continuously connected to a more-than-human net- work. The mass-adoption of sleep-tracking devices has an impact on the personal, social and cultural meaning of sleep. This study looks at the discourse forming around wearable sleep-trackers. This extended abstract presents how non-human subjectivities are accounted for in this discourse. Through a posthuman discourse analysis of textual and visual artefacts from interviews, academic research and popular media, six distinct roles for these non-human social agents were identified: ‘Teacher’, ‘Informant’, ‘Companion’, ‘Therapist’, ‘Coach’ and ‘Mediator’. This characterisation is a first step to understanding sleep-trackers as social agents, reorganising personal and contextual relationships with the sleeping self. | en_US |
dc.rights | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version accepted for publication in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Analysis following peer review. The version of record is available https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519677 | |
dc.subject | agency | en_US |
dc.subject | discourse analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | personal informatics | en_US |
dc.subject | posthumanism | en_US |
dc.subject | sleep-tracking | en_US |
dc.subject | subjectivity | en_US |
dc.subject | wearable technology | en_US |
dc.title | The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers - A Discourse Analysis | en_US |
dc.type | Conference Proceeding | |
dc.rights.holder | © 2022, Association of Computing Machinery. Inc | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/3491101.3519677 | en_US |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | en_US |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-02-18 | en_US |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en_US |
qmul.funder | EPSRC and AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology::Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | en_US |