07 September 2010
High levels of wellbeing and happiness are fundamental elements of a more sustainable society according to a host of researchers. Researchers at the London School of Economics have created a new iPhone application intended to map happiness across the UK. Researchers will beep users once a day to ask how users are feeling, and a few basic things to control for: who they are with, where they are, what they're doing.
The data collected gets sent back - anonymously and securely - to their data store, along with the user's approximate location from the iPhone's GPS, and a noise-level measure.
Researchers are keen to understand how people's feelings are affected by features of their current environment, including factors such as air pollution, noise and green spaces.
Mind you there is clearly a bias in the sample as this is an app for the iphone not the everyday phone. Special people have iphones...maybe they are fundamentally happier than those without. I hope this research isn't sponsored by Apple.
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written by BigGrant , 2010-09-14 12:10:36
written by BigGrant , 2010-09-14 12:10:36
I'd have thought that having a mobile phone at all was likely to be detrimental to your happiness. Remember the days when you weren't always at someone's beck and call. You had to put cash into those red boxes but life was more peaceful wasn't it.
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