A Panopticon on My Wrist: The Biopower of Big Data Visualization for Wearables
A Panopticon on My Wrist: The Biopower of Big Data Visualization for Wearables
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我手腕上的圆形监狱：可穿戴设备大数据可视化的生物力量
作者：
K. Hepworth
摘要大数据可视化-从巨大的数据集中挑选出的定量信息的视觉空间显示-现在已经牢固地嵌入到地球仪人们的日常经验中，但对它的研究仍然少得惊人。在这些文献中，大数据可视化的批判性理论很少，因为数字实证主义观点占主导地位。本文对FitBit等可穿戴健康跟踪生态系统中的大数据可视化提供了一个关键的、设计方面的视角。我认为，这种可视化是个性化的工具，新自由主义的治理，主要通过诱惑和成瘾的经验，以促进参与企业捕获和个人信息的货币化。我对FitBit生态系统的个人体验的探索阐明了这一论点，并强调了对使用这些生态系统的个人造成伤害的能力，从而探索了在可穿戴设备生态系统中从事可视化工作的用户体验设计师面临的复杂专业挑战。
Abstract Big data visualization – the visual-spatial display of quantitative information culled from huge data sets – is now firmly embedded within the everyday experiences of people across the globe, yet scholarship on it remains surprisingly small. Within this literature, critical theorizations of big data visualizations are rare, as digital positivist perspectives dominate. This paper offers a critical, design-informed perspective on big data visualization in wearable health tracking ecosystems like FitBit. I argue that such visualizations are tools of individualized, neoliberal governance that operate largely through experiences of seduction and addiction to facilitate participation in the corporate capture and monetization of personal information. Exploration of my personal experience of the FitBit ecosystem illuminates this argument and emphasizes the capacity for harm to individuals using these ecosystems, leading to an exploration of the complex professional challenges for user experience designers working on visualizations within the ecosystems of wearables.