How Self-tracking and the Quantified Self Promote Health and Well-being: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-tracking technologies are widely used in people's daily lives and health care. Academic research on self-tracking and the quantified self has also accumulated rapidly in recent years. Surprisingly, there is a paucity of research that reviews, classifies, and synthesizes the state of the art with respect to self-tracking and the quantified self.

Objective

Our objective was to identify the state of the art of self-tracking and the quantified self in terms of health and well-being.

Methods

We have undertaken a systematic literature review on self-tracking and the quantified self in promoting health and well-being. After a rigorous literature search, followed by inclusions, exclusions, and the application of article quality assessment protocols, 67 empiric

SUBMITTER: Feng S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493454 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature