CFP: Workshop on games, behavior change & wellbeing

Workshop on Ubiquitous games and gamification for promoting behavior change and wellbeing  September 16, Trento, Italy @ CHI Italy This ...

Game helps young people reduce depression

SPARX is a computer program for young people with symptoms of depression that helps them to treat themselves.  The game creates a fantasy ...

Deadline approaching for special issue

Technologies for Affect and Wellbeing Special Issue Guest Editors Rafael A. Calvo  (The University of Sydney) Giu...

Call for Papers - Technology for Positive Psychology Interventions

The Journal of Positive Psychology is calling for submissions to a special issue on "The use of behavior intervention technologies in P...

The science behind games for good

Jane McGonigal and the SuperBetter team share the research behind the great promise in using games to support mental, emotional, social and ...

Technology for healthier minds - a turning tide

This is an earlier version of an article I wrote for The Conversation .  The truth is, engineers like myself, aren’t especi...

Generation Cures promotes altruism and empowerment

Generation Cures , an initiative based at Children's Hopsital Boston is "a kid-led, parent-enabled community all about kids help...

A virtual psychosis experience develops empathy

We talk a lot about technology-supported psychological interventions for patients, but here's an example that turns the tables.  Drs. ...

Feeling better online - Study on Internet-based Positive Psychology interventions

Most technology researchers have had little reason to delve into the methods and experimental research on wellbeing that goes on in other...

Developing Altruism Through Virtual Reality

Potential opportunities for using technology to develop socio-emotional skills are increasingly promising. Take for example, altruism, the ...

SuperBetter Builds Personal Resilience

Then my phone looked me in the eye and said:  " Remember, enjoying positive social contact is the greatest thing you can do to improv...

The Habits of Highly Empathic People

I recently had the opportunity to visit a number of research groups working on topics associated with Positive Computing. On one of thes...

Game to promote empathy and kindness

A team of researchers, including neuroscientist Professor Richard Davidson (Founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the ...

Games for personal and social wellbeing

How can games be leveraged to support wellbeing and human strengths?   Jane McGonigal , affiliate of the Institute for the Future, has bee...

The business of wisdom

Richard Eskrow critically explores the commercially-driven search for wisdom in silicon valley in the article " Buying Wisdom: The ar...

Technology for a wiser world

Just released, the Interactions feature article " Positive Computing: Technology for a wiser world " explores both a vision and...

CHI takes on design for wellbeing

The Interaction Design and Emotional Welbeing workshop at CHI 2012  was a "one-day workshop [bringing] together a diverse community o...

Positive computing for kids and teens

The recently released Oxford University Press title, Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development by Marina Umaschi Bers...

Young and Well Collaborative Research Center

Families, companies and now governments are realizing the impact of technology on young people's minds. The Young and Well Collaborativ...

Tech leaders call for organized "goodness"

Public and professional interest in the effects of technology on culture  (particularly on privacy) are ever making headlines.  A recent New...