ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors present their approach to self-tracking as part of a processual world, which manifests, intersects and sometimes is contested in different past, present and future temporalities and imaginaries. Self-tracking and personal data are experienced in places and are often co-constitutive of our experience of place. Contemporary self-tracking happens across diverse everyday environments and, as argued elsewhere, personal data can be seen as emerging through the relationship between humans, technologies and aspects of the outdoor environment, including the ground underfoot, the weather and the built environment. Part of living with personal data involves learning how to navigate this world where different modes of imagining futures coincide. Understanding self-tracking technologies and data as part of the materialities and technologies of homes suggests that personal data can become enduringly significant to people precisely because it is bound up with the other everyday materialities and routines that people need to be engaged with in order to accomplish their everyday objectives.
