Using idle moments to record your health via mobile applications
Neal Lathia · 2012
As smart mobile phones permeate society, so too does the opportunity to use these technologies to unobtrusively capture patterns of daily life and interact with people in situ. The ability to record facets of daily life has given rise to the notion of the quantified self; researchers operating at the intersection of computer and social science are now seeking to understand how these mobiles' data can aide the design of health interventions and inform future psychological and social science research.