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The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers - A Discourse Analysis

Anna Nolda Nagele, Julian Hough Orcid Logo, Zara Dinnen

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Swansea University Author: Julian Hough Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3491101.3519677

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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...

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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
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