News

As we come to a close with the Tracking Ourselves? project, we have put together some of the key research findings into easy-to-read documents that are available for you to download. These include:

Commercial partners

This executive summary details the background to the project, methods and our key findings. In particular, it explores:

• why people buy monitoring technologies;

• what products and functions they look for;

• the problems encountered within the home and at the clinic;

• how industry can support healthy monitoring.

Everyday experiences of self-monitoring

This executive summary details the background to the project, methods and our key findings. In particular, it explores:

• how people acquire a monitor;

• the reasons people decide to self-monitor;

• where people keep/store their monitoring devices;

• the regularity of people’s monitoring;

• who is involved in the self-monitoring process;

• how people keep records of their monitoring;

• what happens in the clinic.

Both of these summaries are available to download on our resources page.