Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can...
The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

Motivating employees isn’t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
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On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
Researchers

Science can explain a lot of things that I've always won... science!). In this case, it explains what I've known for... been unable to quite understand: Why do some folks who h... money than others seem to be less nice and more evil to ...
At 0:50, so

So Gagne studied for a PhD, and became a therapist. She thinks her detachment was helpful. “If you are constantly projecting your own emotions into the session, they’re not going to be able to process what they’re feeling.”

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

Sound design is often the unsung hero of video games. Bu... get it right, primal instincts are triggered, helping im... the action. Below, the brains behind the soundscapes of ... biggest releases discuss their art in exclusive intervie...

The Emotional Wardrobe builds on the characteristics of ... clothing, and imagines a world where fashion converges w... Emotional Wardrobe is about a new genre of clothing, who... benefits are intangible and difficult to quantify .. but... emotive cha

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

The following 14 search engines get queried in parallel:

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to...
An examination of the facial expressions of the last six ...
Shown here

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
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The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
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These heat maps reveal where we feel love, anger, shame ...
Image Credit: Pnas.org
December 31, 2013 7:57 AM
Rebecca Grant
... what we feel and the physical sensation of that feeling.

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
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Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers
... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

We feel Fine
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external i ...
We feel Fine is a bit of a misnomer as the site aims to ...
The 'Open We Feel Fine' tab launches the application whi ...
... aggregator sites like these are completely above-board

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ...
Relationships between general and emotional intelligence
CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ...
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Wearable technologies currently exist in two spaces – ... pieces by artists and designers, and as engineering-driv... products that are taken to market. But, as Danielle Wild... future for wearable technologies lies in creating produc... aesthetic q