Just a quick note that 3GT, our Facebook app based on the positive psychology exercise Three Good Things, is back online after some time at the spa. The new version is based on some of what I learned from the last release. Some of the social and feedback lessons still need to be applied, so [...]
Also tagged 3gt, facebook, happiness, positive psychology, swellness, three good thingsI recently read “Health behavior models in the age of mobile interventions: are our theories up to the task?,” by Riley, Rivera, Atienza, Nilsen, Allison, and Mermelstein, which appeared in March’s Translational Behavioral Medicine. The authors review papers, up to 2010 and as indexed by MedLine, that assess mobile health interventions and report at least [...]
Also tagged healthOkay, the third and final (?) set of CHI Highlights, consisting of brief notes on some other papers and panels that caught my attention. My notes here will, overall, be briefer than in the other posts. More papers We’re in It Together: Interpersonal Management of Disclosure in Social Network Services Airi Lampinen, Vilma Lehtinen, Asko [...]
Also tagged chi, chi2011, conference, designFor my second post on highlights from CHI this year, I’m focusing on papers related to opinion diversity and discourse quality. Normative influences on thoughtful online participation Abhay Sukumaran, Stephanie Vezich, Melanie McHugh, Clifford Nass Two lab experiments on whether it is possible to foster more thoughtful commenting and participation by participants in online discussion [...]
Also tagged chi, chi2011, conference, design, diversity, empathy, homophily, politics, serendipityI want to take few minutes to highlight a few papers from CHI 2011, spread across a couple of posts. There was lots of good work at this conference. This post will focus on papers in the persuasive technology and social software for health and wellness space, which is the aspect of my work that [...]
Also tagged chi, chi2011, health, mindful technology, mindfulness, persuasive technology, social influence, social software, wellnessOn Monday, I had the pleasure of visiting Malcolm McCullough’s Architecture 531 – Networked Cities for final presentations. Many of the students in the class are from SI, where we talk a lot about incentive-centered design, choice architecture, and persuasive technology, which seems to have resulted in many of the projects having a persuasive technology [...]
Also tagged design, mindful technology, persuasive technologyFor those interested in the software that drives the SIDisplay, SI master’s student Morgan Keys has been working to make a generalized and improved version available. You can find it, under the name “@display” at this GitHub repository. SIDisplay is a Twitter-based public display described in a CSCW paper with Paul Resnick and Emily Rosengren. [...]
Also tagged @display, public display, sidisplay, social software, twitterWhen preparing our Persuasive 2010 paper on Three Good Things, we ended up cutting a section on using word clouds to support reflection. The section wasn’t central to this paper, but it highlights one of the design challenges we encountered, and so I want to share it and take advantage of any feedback. Our Three [...]
Also tagged design, social software, three good things, word cloudsIn my upcoming CHI paper, “Presenting Diverse Political Opinions: How and How Much,” we used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) to recruit subjects and to administer the study. I’ll talk a bit more about the research questions and results in a future post, but I’ve had enough questions about using Mechanical Turk that I think a [...]
Also tagged BALANCE, crowdsourcing, mechanical turk, politicsI’ve been meaning to post a simple update to my previous visualization of political blogs’ link similarities. In the previous post, I used GEM for layout, which was not, in hindsight, the best choice. In the visualization in this post, the edges between blogs (the nodes, colorized as liberal, independent, and conservative) are weighted as [...]
Also tagged BALANCE, politics, visualization