Conference Paper/Proceeding/Abstract 365 views
The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers - A Discourse Analysis
Anna Nolda Nagele,
Julian Hough 
,
Zara Dinnen
,
Zara Dinnen
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
Swansea University Author:
Julian Hough
Full text not available from this repository: check for access using links below.
DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3491101.3519677
Abstract
Self-reported quality and duration of sleep in Western populations is declining. The interest in wearable sleep-trackers that are promising better sleep is growing. By wearing a device day and night the sleeper is continuously connected to a more-than-human network. The mass-adoption of sleep-tracki...
| Published in: | CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-9156-6 |
| Published: |
New York, NY, USA
ACM
2022
|
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64928 |
| Abstract: |
Self-reported quality and duration of sleep in Western populations is declining. The interest in wearable sleep-trackers that are promising better sleep is growing. By wearing a device day and night the sleeper is continuously connected to a more-than-human network. 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. |
|---|---|
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |