Baby Lucent: Pitfalls of applying quantified self to baby products

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 263-268

  Gaunt, Kevin ^a   Nacsa, Júlia ^a   Penz, Marcel ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Infant body data; Quantified baby and family products; Quantified self; Quantified self obstacles; Smart pacifiers

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

INFANT BODY DATA; QUANTIFIED BABY AND FAMILY PRODUCTS; QUANTIFIED SELF; QUANTIFIED SELF OBSTACLES; SMART PACIFIERS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84900535257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2580937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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