The Quantified Traveler : Using personal travel data to promote sustainable transport behavior
Author(s): Jariyasunant, JeraldCarrel, AndreEkambaram, VenkatesanGaker, DjKote, T.Sengupta, RajaWalker, Joan L Abstract: With the advent of ubiquitous mobile sensing and self-tracking groups, travel demand researchers have a unique opportunity to combine these two...
Cultural consonance and mental wellness in the World of Warcraft: Online games as cognitive technologies of ‘absorption-immersion.’
Author(s): Snodgrass, Jeffrey GLacy, Michael GDengah, H J Francois I IFagan, Jesse Abstract: We use survey data—interpreted through ethnographic interviews and our own game-playing experiences—to model the way culture impacts the therapeutic dynamics of play in the...
Religion, social networks, and life satisfaction
Author(s): Lim, ChaeyoonPutnam, Robert D. Abstract: Although the positive association between religiosity and life satisfaction is well documented, much theoretical and empirical controversy surrounds the question of how religion actually shapes life satisfaction....
Book Reviews
Author(s): Saris, W.E. Veenhoven, Ruut Scherpenzeel, A.C. B., Bunting Abstract: BACKGROUND: Prior studies have suggested that microvessel density is an important prognostic factor in invasive breast cancer. However, the extent and distribution of microvessels in...
Online Social Networks for Personal Informatics to Promote Positive Health Behavior
Author(s): Noreen KamalSidney FelsKendall Ho Abstract: Social network services are becoming increasingly popular, and people are using these networks to obtain and share information. The application of social network and social media to the collection, storage and...
Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of lifelogging
Author(s): Abigail J. Sellen Steve Whittaker Abstract: Rather than try to capture everything, system design should focus on the psychological basis of human memory. Documentation: https://doi.org/10.1145/1735223.1735243 References: Abowd, G. Classroom 2000: An...
Life Satisfaction and Relative Income – Perceptions and Evidence
Author(s) Guy Mayraz Gert G. Wagner Jürgen Schupp Abstract: Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to...
Lifelogging: Privacy and empowerment with memories for life
Author(s): Kieron O’Hara Mischa M. Tuffield Nigel Shadbolt Abstract: The growth of information acquisition, storage and retrieval capacity has led to the development of the practice of lifelogging, the undiscriminating collection of information concerning one’s life...
Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature
Author: Proctor, Carmel L. Linley, P. Alex Maltby, John Abstract: A central construct within the positive psychology literature is life satisfaction. Whereas adult life satisfaction has been studied extensively, the life satisfaction of children and adolescents has...
Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development
Author John F. Helliwell Abstract This paper argues that measures of life satisfaction, now being collected annually by the Gallup World Poll in more than 130 countries, permit a much broader view of the quality and consequences of development than other common...