Media & Events

Positive Computing in the Press

• Washington Post - "Positive Computing: The Tech Buzzword You Need to Know for 2015"
• Forbes - "'Positive Computing': The Next Big Thing in Human-centered Design?"
• The Conversation - "We could be superheroes: the era of positive computing"
• ACM Computing Reviews - Positive Computing - Book Review
• Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group - "Positive Computing"
• PsychCentral - "Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential"  
• US Telecom - "The Power of Positive Computing"

Seminars, Workshops & Events

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Email rafael.a.calvo[at]gmail.com for more information about any upcoming events.

Forthcoming & Recent

• CHI 2018: 3rd Symposium on Computing & Mental Health 
• CHI 2017: Computing & Mental Health (Workshop)+ Positive Computing (Course)
  6-11 May 2017, Denver, CO
• TEDx Haymarket: "It's time for technologies to respect our psychological needs"
  Feb 23 2017, Haymarket, Sydney

 Past Events

2016

• Positive Computing Meetup NYC, 10 October NewYork
• Harvard Medical School, 13 October, Boston
• CHI 2016,  Computing in Mental Health (Workshop)  |  Designing Technology for Wellbeing (Course), 7-12 May, 2016 
• UNSW, Humans and Machines : A quest for better mental health.15 September,Sydney
• Brain and Mind Centre, Partnering for Mental Health Innovation in Australia and Ibero-America. 23 September 2016, Sydney
• Australian Computing and Mental Health workshop at OZCHI
  29 Nov 2016 Launceston, Tasmania
• VR in Mental Health Symposium at SMHR 7-9 Dec 2016, Sydney
• AAAI Spring Symposium Keynote. 23 March 2016, Stanford

2015

• Facebook, Menlo Park, 11am, Tuesday 8th September, 2015
• Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA, Thursday, 10th September 2015
• University California Santa Cruz, Friday, 11th September. 2015
• MIT Media Lab, Tuesday 4-5:30pm, 15th September, 2015 (details)
• Victoria University, Melbourne. 4th August 2pm (details)
• Melbourne University, 4th August AM. (details)
• Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, 11th June,  2:30pm (details)
• European digital festival Futur en Seine 2015, Paris, Friday 12 June 11am. (details)
• Delft University of Technology, Delft Netherlands, 15th June 2015 (details)
• What Works Wellbeing Centre, London,  Cabinet Office, 17 June (details)
• University College London, 19 June 1pm, 66-72 Gower Street - Room 405 (details)
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Peru, Lima, 13 May. (details)
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14th May.
• Residencia de Australia, Zabala 1900, Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 19 May, 2015 (details)
• Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, CIFASIS, 21 May, 10am
• Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina 11am 22 May. (details)
• CHI 2015 - Course: "An Introduction to Positive Computing",  Seoul, 23 Apr 15
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 17 Apr 15
• University of California, Irvine - Jan 2015
• MIT Media Lab, Boston - 27 Jan 2015
• Northeastern University, Boston - 26 Jan 2015
• Stanford Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education - 22 Jan 2015
• UC Berkeley Institute of Personality and Social Research & Berkeley Greater Good Science Center - 21 Jan 2015  (Seminar + workshop)
  
• Google, Menlo Park, Jan 20th, 2015
• Microsoft Research, Seattle, Jan 13 2015 (workshop)
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 12 Jan 2015 

2014

• University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles -  December 16th, 2014
• Atlassian, Sydney - Dec 2015 (workshop)
• Dig Festival Newcastle, Australia 16 October, 2014
• Technology, wellbeing and social media -  UNSW Brain Sciences, Sydney - 17 October 2014
• Microsoft Research, Seattle - 24 April 2014
• CHI 2014, Toronto 26 April 2014 - Part of Design for Human Autonomy workshop.
• McGill University, Montreal - 5 May 2014.
• Stanford University - 8 May 2014 

2013

• Roundtable on Technology to foster wellbeing in schools - University of Sydney - 8th November 2013
• Workshop: Autonomy in Technology Design - University of Sydney, Faculty of Education and Social Work - 16th October 2013
• University of Sydney, School of Electrical and Information Engineering - 23 July 2013 - 9am
• Imperial College London - Computing Dept. (Huxley Building) - 3pm, 31 May 2013
• Ashridge Business School, London - 29th May 2013
• Cambridge Wellbeing Institute, University of Cambridge - 21 May 2013
• Telecom ParisTech - 3 May 2013
• University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory - 21 Feb 2013
• CNRS/Paris South University - 22 March 2013
• University College London - 12 April 2013
• Florida International University - 11 January 2013
• University of Miami - 15 Jan 2013
• McGill University - 11 Dec 2012
• University of Sydney - 14 Nov 2012