Sensing Health - 9780472056590

The University of Michigan Press

Sensing HealthBodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies\nAuthor(s): Mikki Kressbach\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472056590, 978-0472056590\nSynopsis\nIn the age of Apple Watches and Fitbits, the concept of health emerges through an embodied experience of a digital health device or platform, not simply through the biomedical data it provides. Sensing Health: Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies analyzes popular digital health technologies as aesthetic experiences to understand how these devices and platforms have impacted the way individuals perceive their bodies, behaviors, health, and well-being. By tracing design alongside embodied experiences of digital health, Kressbach shows how these technologies aim to quantify, track and regulate the body, while at the same time producing moments that bring the bodys affordances and relationship to the fore. This mediated ex.