{"id":12222,"date":"2026-08-26T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=12222"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:34:10","slug":"quantified-self-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/quantified-self-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantified Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Quantified-Self-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:1024px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Quantified-Self-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Quantified-Self-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Quantified-Self-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Quantified-Self-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Quantified-Self.jpg 1777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>The data-gathering capacity of wearable devices,&nbsp;including smartphones, combined with cloud-based analytics, has&nbsp;proven itself&nbsp;in clinical health applications (e.g. cardiac recovery) and for personal improvement (e.g. FitBit devices). &nbsp;Data can extend beyond health indicators such as movement, pulse, etc., to behaviours, attention, sociability, etc. &nbsp;The two-fold benefit of such&nbsp;<strong>Quantified Self&nbsp;<\/strong>concepts is that the data can generate live&nbsp;and long-duration \u2018mirrors\u2019 (where the wearer is offered&nbsp;actionable intelligence about themselves) and \u2018portraits\u2019 (where actionable intelligence is available to helping professionals, such as physicians or teachers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>523 Inspiration: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>What is the future\u00a0for \u2018quantified learners\u2019? \u00a0For example, poor diet and lack of sleep limit learning ability, so what range, combinations and dashboards of self-measurement feedback could help us become better learners? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion: &nbsp;&nbsp;The data-gathering capacity of wearable devices,&nbsp;including smartphones, combined with cloud-based analytics, has&nbsp;proven itself&nbsp;in clinical health applications (e.g. cardiac recovery) and for personal improvement (e.g.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/quantified-self-7\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quantified Self<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w01-frontiers-poll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions\/12224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}