{"id":24120,"date":"2022-07-18T18:54:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:35","slug":"professor-michael-mopas-interviewed-for-roxana-girju-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2022\/professor-michael-mopas-interviewed-for-roxana-girju-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Michael Mopas interviewed for Roxana Girju podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Professor Michael Mopas interviewed for Roxana Girju podcast\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Professor Michael Mopas was recently interviewed for the Creative Language Technologies<\/em> podcast, “Wearable Fitness-Trackers and Data Sensing: Learning from Endurance Athletes”. Read a brief introduction below and listen to the podcast here<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n

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Today I sat down, virtually, of course, with Dr. Michael Mopas, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. He is cross-appointed to the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Law and Legal Studies, and serves as a member of the Duncombe Studio for Social and Cultural Research. Most of Michael\u2019s work is in the area of science, technology, and law with a focus on ‘sound’. In his spare time, he plays upright bass in several jazz bands in the city and participates in long-distance triathlons. He has completed two Ironman races (Lake Placid and Mont-Tremblant) and several other events.<\/p>

In our discussion, we turned to wearable fitness-trackers and mobile apps that allow athletes to measure, monitor, visualize, and record a variety of training metrics. Dr. Mopas and his collaborators have looked into the deeply embodied and sensory dimensions of self-tracking. The overall insight seems to be that the data generated by self-trackers are not only cognitively processed, but also sensed and felt by users. While we do have some understanding of what exactly self-tracking devices measure and quantify, we know less about how\/when do their users know these quantitative metrics work for them. How do we mitigate the potential dissonance between these quantitative metrics and the athletes\u2019 lived experiences?<\/p>

The second part of the discussion moved toward technology. We talked about the future of wearable self-tracking devices and debated if AI can be employed to better understand the emotional needs of the user.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Michael Mopas was recently interviewed for the Creative Language Technologies podcast, “Wearable Fitness-Trackers and Data Sensing: Learning from Endurance Athletes”. Read a brief introduction below and listen to the podcast here: Today I sat down, virtually, of course, with Dr. Michael Mopas, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sociology-faculty-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24276,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions\/24276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}