Susannah Fox of Pew Internet was the opening keynote speaker for the Medicine X 2012 self-tracking symposium at Stanford University on Sept. 28. A steady stream of new apps and devices that can be ...

People who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.” They want to know how to sleep better, stay fit, or ...

How was your workout? Did you sleep well? How far are you in that book? These questions used to be general queries. New apps and gadgets allow us to keep track of every minute detail of our daily ...

It seems like a day doesn't go by where I don't hear about some new self-tracking app or device. Do I honestly need to know where I am or what I'm eating every ding-dong day? Self-tracking, quantified ...

As the self-quantification movement matures, users are expanding beyond physical tracking to assess how they think, decide, ...

Technology has made it easier than ever to track your activity levels, your sleep cycles, how you spend your time, and more. The self-trackers who near-obsessively capture and analyze their own data ...

When you were growing up, the closest you ever got to a personal medical data-collection device was probably a thermometer, or a bathroom scale. But these days, health trackers are a lot more ...

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Sometimes when I’m hanging out with group of friends, fellow writers, or co-workers, the topic of quantified self comes up. Someone will say, “Ask Jamie, he can tell you how many steps he walked from ...