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Epistemic Agency: AI Qualitative Analysis of Self-Tracking
Researchers and practitioners are asking whether self-tracking is merely data production or a form of knowledge creation: the Frontiersin.org review frames this question as epistemic agency in self-tracking and maps a spectrum from low to high agency. The primary keyword for this article is "epistemic agency in self-tracking" and this post shows how AI-enabled qualitative research methods can extract who asked the question, who analyzed the data, and who benefited from the answer. The audience is qualitative researchers, UX and health researchers, and teams running citizen science or patient-led projects who want reproducible syntheses of interviews, self-experiments, and open-ended reports.
In this article
- Key Takeaways
- What Happened and How the Review Measured Agency
- Findings Snapshot
- Implications for qualitative researchers and research teams
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