Journal article
Bodily Intra-actions with Biometric Devices
Abstract
We investigated the interface between biomedia and humans by inviting participants to interact with biometric devices that measured and visualized their body data. At first, they struggled with the alienating and disembodying nature of the devices and the constrained, reductionist representation of data. Through their bodily interactions with these devices, however, participants reframed the data and inserted their bodies into the process of …
Authors
Gardner P; Jenkins B
Journal
Body & Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 3–30
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
March 2016
DOI
10.1177/1357034x15604030
ISSN
1357-034X