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.

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我手腕上的全景摄像机：可穿戴设备大数据可视化的生物力量

摘要 大数据可视化——从大量数据集中挑选出的定量信息的视觉空间显示——现在已经牢牢嵌入全球人们的日常体验中，但关于它的学术研究仍然出奇地少。在这些文献中，大数据可视化的批判性理论很少见，因为数字实证主义观点占主导地位。本文为 FitBit 等可穿戴健康追踪生态系统中的大数据可视化提供了一个关键的、基于设计的观点。我认为，这种可视化是个性化、新自由主义治理的工具，主要通过诱惑和成瘾的经验来运作，以促进参与个人信息的企业捕获和货币化。