The impact of new technologies is hard to predict. We suggest the value of theories of performativity in understanding dynamics around the convergence of biomedical and information technology. Drawing on the ideas of Butler and Foucault, we discuss a new, internal, context for HCI and raise potentially disturbing issues with monitoring health. We argue that by adopting explicitly social framings we can see beyond the idea of medical interventions to tools for wellbeing and recognize more of the implications of looking within. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Light, A., & Wright, P. (2009). The panopticon and the performance arena: HCI reaches within. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5727 LNCS, pp. 201–204). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_26
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