ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how self-tracking devices, and the digital infrastructures through which they are connected, ‘think’, how they perceive of the people that use and engage with them, and how they interpret their everyday lives and their imagined problems. Self-tracking devices and their software often promise, either explicitly or implicitly, to provide potential users with solutions to imagined everyday problems, such as coping with stressful situations, figuring out how to eat and workout properly, or how to sleep better. The body is imagined to produce infallible data, yet at the same time it is understood as hopelessly incapable of making sense of the data it produces without technological assistance. The app builds on the idea that any understanding of health requires several data sources to fully engage with the complexity of the human body.
