Posted in Adaptive, Personal on Mar 27th, 2007 Write a comment »
Here’s a great TED talk by Dan Gilbert where he talks about Synthetic versus Natural Happiness. “Natural Happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic Happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted.”
During the talk he discusses the implications of some experiments which demonstrate that giving [...]
Posted in Link Bucket on Mar 22nd, 2007 Write a comment »
Are you convinced? How do you believe? Have a gander at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Web Credibility Project.
Many many ebooks for free!
Share this meme….Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology “offers a new theory about how ideologies and beliefs grow, spread, and develop– a theory of cultural evolution, which explains both shared understandings and disagreement [...]
Hi my name is Mike Bennett & I'm a HCI / Vision Science postdoc researcher, interaction designer + hacker in the Psychology Dept of Stanford University. In this blog I explore design, cognitive & vision science, art, psychology, physiology, nanotech, perception, materials, etc, that enable anyone to shape their own user experiences... more
