Guest editors' introduction wearable technologies and communication design

Communication Design Quarterly Feb 2018

Guest editors' introduction wearable technologies and communication design

John Jones ; Catherine C. Gouge

Abstract

Using the data generated by both consumer- and medically-oriented wearable devices to assess and improve fitness, wellbeing, and specific health outcomes demands attention to the user experiences of such devices as well as to the kinds of claims being made about their promise (cf. Gouge & Jones, 2016). This special issue participates in such work by presenting case studies situated at the intersections of wearables, communication design, and rhetorical analysis that explore the health, justice, and wellness-oriented promises of specific wearables. In this introduction, we briefly survey the research on wearables in the fields of rhetoric and technical communication, preview the essays in the collection, and propose some areas for future work that might be of interest to technical communication, communication design, and rhetoric scholars.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2018-02-16
DOI: 10.1145/3188387.3188388
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Topics: multimodality technical communication multilingual writers

Citation Context

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Cites in this index (13)

Jones et al. (2017)

Design principles for health wearables

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Tham (2017)

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Boyle (2016)

Pervasive Citizenship through #SenseCommons

Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Gouge et al. (2016)

Wearables, Wearing, and the Rhetorics that Attend to Them

Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Jack (2016)

Leviathan and the Breast Pump: Toward an Embodied Rhetoric of Wearable Technology

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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Kalin et al. (2016)

Wearing the City: Memory P(a)laces, Smartphones, and the Rhetorical Invention o…

Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Kessler (2016)

Wearing an Ostomy Pouch and Becoming an Ostomate: A Kairological Approach to We…

Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Teston (2016)

Rhetoric, Precarity, and mHealth Technologies

Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Rivers et al. (2016)

Speculative Usability

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Lazard et al. (2015)

e-health first impressions and visual evaluations

Communication Design Quarterly
Meloncon et al. (2015)

Special issue introduction: Charting an emerging field

Communication Design Quarterly
Bellwoar (2012)

Everyday Matters: Reception and Use as Productive Design of Health-Related Texts

Technical Communication Quarterly
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Written Communication

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Rettberg J. W. (2014)

Seeing ourselves through technology: How we use selfies, blogs and wearable devices to se…

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