http://www.commres.net/ 2026-04-17T08:24:03+00:00 http://www.commres.net/ http://www.commres.net/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/1_an_introduction_to_positive_computing?rev=1468246678&do=diff An Introduction to Positive Computing < 100% 50% 50% > “Don't be evil,” wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin on the eve of Google's IPO in 2004. Almost a decade later, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the annual developer's conference with a tribute to emotional experience as part of a campaign in which Apple claimed to ask of their technologies: text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/3._multidisciplinary_foundations?rev=1468246678&do=diff Let's be honest: engineers and computer scientists aren't known for advanced social skills or for their perspicacity with regard to human emotions. Some would also be quick to point out we have a weakness for letting technological interests drive all our decision making. But shameless stereotyping aside, we believe that when it comes to designing for wellbeing, no matter what field you're in, it's critical not to go it alone. text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/4_wellbeing_in_technology_research?rev=1468246678&do=diff 4 Wellbeing in Technology Research Computers should be able to do X. Current techniques only do X-I. We contribute a technique that does I. It's not exactly an inspiring narrative, but this humble argument has nevertheless fueled incremental technological progress over the past century and ushered us through three generations of computing and into the Internet of Things we find ourselves moving today. As devices get embedded into the fabric of our lives and become inextricable parts of the ex… text/html 2016-07-12T03:06:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/6_expert_perspective?rev=1468292780&do=diff Expert Perspective Fun and Pleasure in Computing Systems < 100% 50% > Fun and Pleasure in Computing Systems <[ ]Don Norma, Nielsen Norman Group> Figure 6.1 Don Norma, Nielsen Norman Group The design of human–computer systems used to focus upon the negative, the breakdowns that confused and confounded people. Now it is time to move to the next level, to focus upon the positive, systems that are enjoyable and pleasurable. We need systems that delight as well as inform, systems that create pleasu… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/6_positive_emotions?rev=1468246678&do=diff 6 Positive Emotions 6 Positive Emotions In preschools across the globe, scampering boys and girls paste their scribbly creations into “Wow” books. “Do you know why it’s called a ‘wow book’?” my daughter asks me (Dorian) one afternoon, eager to divulge the surprise. “Because it makes you go ‘Wow!’” Her gleeful answer may not have been a total revelation, but it does reveal something more profound than might be expected. This simple handcrafted artifact is designed to support shared moments of p… text/html 2016-07-12T02:58:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/7_motivation_engagement_and_flow?rev=1468292295&do=diff 7 Motivation, Engagement, and Flow I can hear the threatening moans of the undead gaining on me from behind. Picking up the pace, I break into a run, and my heart quickens. I round a sharp corner, cut through the park, and finally welcome the reassuring news through my earbuds: text/html 2016-07-12T05:21:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/8_expert_perspective?rev=1468300910&do=diff Expert perspectives < 100% 50% 50% > How Emotional Intelligence Can Inform Positive Computing <David R. Caruso, Yale University and EI Skills Group> David R. Caruso, Yale University and EI Skills Group How you feel influences how you think and what you think about. Our decisions can be informed by our emotions and feelings, and they can also be derailed by them. Knowing how we feel, employing these feelings to assist our thinking, understanding the reasons we have these feelings, and successfu… text/html 2016-07-12T03:03:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/8_self-awareness_and_self-compassion?rev=1468292599&do=diff 8 Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion It was late in his life, as he faced his executioners, that one of the world’s greatest thinkers would conclude that death was preferable to giving up philosophy. To those in his midst he declared simply: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates would go on to swallow hemlock for his crimes—crimes that would come to represent a pinnacle of human achievement. text/html 2016-07-19T13:53:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/9_expert_perspective?rev=1468936400&do=diff Expert Perspectives – Technology for Mindfulness Mindfulness Online <Adele Krusche and J. Mark G. Willaims, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford> Adele Krusche and J. Mark G. Willaims, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford At the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, we teach people the skills to be able to let go of unwanted thoughts, to sit still and to pay attention to what is going on right here and now. Within Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry, we work with partner… text/html 2016-07-12T03:37:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/9_mindfulness?rev=1468294674&do=diff . . . . . . < 100% 50% 50% > 9 Mindfulness You get dressed, spill some coffee, put the cereal away in the fridge, pretend you're listening to your kids, and leave without the car keys. It's a typical day in the world of the modern Homo sapiens -- text/html 2016-07-12T03:39:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/10_empathy?rev=1468294764&do=diff 10. Empathy Milo is a small gray mouse. His first memory is of feeding from his mother in a small cage, remarkably similar to the one he’s in now. For as long as he can remember, the man in the white coat has visited periodically with pellets, toys, electrodes, and other variations to his otherwise solitary and monotonous existence. Two weeks ago Milo’s life changed when he got the unexpected delight of a cagemate, an affectionate white mouse named Lula. They play together, chase each other aro… text/html 2016-07-21T13:23:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/10_expert_perspective?rev=1469107380&do=diff Expert Perspectives—Technology for Empathy and Plurality < 100% 50% > Expert Perspectives—Technology for Empathy and Plurality Compassionate Computer Agents <Timothy W. Bickmore, Northeastern University> Figure 10.1 Timothy W. Bickmore, Northeastern University Health represents one of the most primal human needs, and technologies designed to positively impact health thus compose an important aspect of positive computing. Over the past decade, many researchers have investigated the development… text/html 2016-07-12T03:45:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/11_compassion_and_altruism?rev=1468295139&do=diff < 100% 50% 50% > 11 Compassion and Altruism To be a superhero is to have compassion, whereas to be a supervillain is to be entirely without it. It’s not enough to experience empathy if you’re a superhero because heroes need to take action as well. We daydream about being superheroes, not only because it would be great to fly and wear skin-tight unitards, but also because superheroes are fantastically empowered to make things right. text/html 2016-08-02T06:28:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/11_expert_perspective?rev=1470119303&do=diff Expert Perspectives — Technology for Altruism and Inspiration < 100% 50% > Expert Perspectives — Technology for Altruism and Inspiration Virtual Altruism <Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University> Figure 11.2 Jeremy Bailenson, Stanford University Imagine looking in the mirror and watching yourself transform to a different race or gender. At Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, my team and I have spent the past decade researching how virtual reality can create a feeling of empathy by allow… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/12_caveats_considerations_and_the_way_ahead?rev=1468246679&do=diff 12 Caveats, Considerations, and the Way Ahead Ten years ago, if you’d told me (Dorian) that technology would get involved in things as personal as mindfulness, happiness, and wellbeing, I would have covered my ears and said, “Make it go away.” text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/design_implications?rev=1468246679&do=diff Design Implications If someone thinks an experience they had was better than it really was, is that a bad thing? The implications of the colonoscopy study suggested to doctors that designing for a better remembered experience should take precedence over designing for a better moment-by-moment one. This seemed reasonable because, in the medical case, designing for better memory leads to greater wellbeing in the long term and greater compliance with repeat visits. text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/economics_-_wellbeing_as_something_money_still_can_t_buy?rev=1468246679&do=diff Economics - Wellbeing as Something Money Still Can't Buy Economics is surprisingly, or perhaps quite logically, one of the richest sources of research on wellbeing. Most notably, it has provided rigorous methods for measuring levels of wellbeing across populations. For example, the Handbook on the Economics of Happiness (Bruni & Porta, 2007) is a compendium of research at the intersection of economics, public policy, and psychological wellbeing. Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psycholog… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/education_-_wellbeing_as_learnable_and_good_for_learning?rev=1468246679&do=diff Education: Wellbeing as Learnable and Good for Learning It's estimated that at any given point in time 10 to 20 percent of youth will suffer a mental health problem (O'Connell, Boat, & Warner, 2009). Why do we wait for serious problems to occur before taking action? The lack of preventative and promotional efforts for wellbeing have caused many psychologists and neuroscientists to turn to schooling as an obvious partner in giving people a better and more resilient start in life. text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/expert_perspectives_-_multidisciplinary_views?rev=1468246679&do=diff Expert Perspectives -- Multidisciplinary Views < 100% 50% 50% > When Worlds Collide: The Power of Cooperation in Wellbeing Science <Jane Burns, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre> Figure 3.1 Jane Burns, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre Imagine a research center where young people work with scientists, service providers, technologists, and governments in a quest to find an answer to the question “Can technology be used to enhance the wellbeing of young people?' Such a center … text/html 2016-07-12T07:14:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/expert_perspectives_-_technology_for_mental_health?rev=1468307644&do=diff Expert Perspectives - Technology for Mental Health < 100% 50% 50% > Inspiring Projects -- Opportunities for Mental Health and Technology <[ ]Jonathan Nicholas, Inspire Foundation> In 1998, Inspire launched the world's first online mental health service? ReachOut.com. Since that time, technology has transformed many aspects of our lives, from business to entertainment to how we connect to others. The potential for Internet and mobile technology to similarly transform mental health and wellbein… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/expert_perspective_-_technology_research_and_wellbeing?rev=1468246679&do=diff Expert Perspective -- Technology Research and Wellbeing < 100% 50% 50% > Is a Diet of Data Healthy? <Yvonne Rogers, University College London> Fig. 4: Yvonne Rogers, University College London Digital technology has pervaded all aspects of our lives. Not only does it enable us to access and interact with information and each other, but it can also sense, monitor, inform, and influence human behavior in unprecedented ways. New movements are being established (e.g., the quantified-self and big-da… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/government_and_policy_-_increasing_gross_national_happiness_and_general_wellbeing?rev=1468246679&do=diff Government and Policy: Increasing Gross National Happiness and General Wellbeing In an influential paper, psychologists Ed Diener and Martin Seligman (2004) argued that “policy decisions at the organizational, corporate and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to wellbeing?people's evaluations and feelings about their lives.” They proposed the creation of a national wellbeing index that would periodically measure wellbeing in representative samples of the p… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/learning_from_learning_technologies?rev=1468246679&do=diff Learning from Learning Technologies Both of us have spent much of our professional careers developing, evaluating, and researching technologies for learning. One interesting thing about these technologies is that they represent an area in which researchers have begun to combine emotions and technology in at least two ways. Despite the focus on STEM, there are at least two areas in which wellbeing measures have already been incorporated. First, at the convergence of affective computing and learn… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/positive_emotions_are_not_created_equal?rev=1468246679&do=diff Positive Emotions Are Not Created Equal Virtually every one of the 5,000 advertisements we see in a day (Story, 2007) is designed to get us to want something. Our brain gets plenty of training in desire and striving, and we’re conditioned to think that acquiring things will make us happy. We are less reminded to value those things that actually are more effective at generating long-term happiness, such as social connectedness, mindfulness, and engagement. Yet both acquiring things and connectin… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/reality_versus_memory?rev=1468246679&do=diff Reality versus Memory The epic battle between reality and memory is an ancient and powerful one that takes place before us every day. These two competing selves (as Kahneman [2011] puts it), our “experiencing self” and our “remembering self,” frequently go head to head, and the results are anything but rational. Experiments frequently rely on “self-reports” after an experience, but how good are we really at remembering what emotions we have experienced in the recent past? Apparently, not that g… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/strategies_for_cultivating_positive_emotions?rev=1468246679&do=diff Strategies for Cultivating Positive Emotions Although we have tried to make the point that wellbeing goes beyond positive emotions and that our assessment of them is more complex than we may realize, positive emotions nevertheless remain both critical to theories of wellbeing and an obvious target for technological design. So how does one go about increasing positive emotions through technological design without falling pray to oversimplistic attempts? “Be angry” is poor direction for a stage a… text/html 2016-07-11T14:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/when_positive_emotions_increase_wellbeing?rev=1468246679&do=diff When Positive Emotions Increase Wellbeing Hedonism and Wellbeing We know positive emotions such as pleasure, serenity, and joy feel good as we experience them, but we also lament their transience. Therefore, how can they be anything but fleeting and casual contributors to our lasting happiness? Can we reconcile these ephemera to a more stable notion of long-term wellbeing? text/html 2016-07-11T16:53:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.commres.net/book/positive_computing/whole?rev=1468256027&do=diff [Texture - Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload] An Introduction to Positive Computing “Don't be evil,” wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin on the eve of Google's IPO in 2004. Almost a decade later, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the annual developer's conference with a tribute to emotional experience as part of a campaign in which Apple claimed to ask of their technologies: