Emotions, Technology, and Health

2016-01-04 Psychology

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Release : 2016-01-04
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Emotions, Technology, and Health written by . This book was released on 2016-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions, Technology, and Health examines how healthcare consumers interact with health technology, how this technology mediates interpersonal interactions, and the effectiveness of technology in gathering health-related information in various situations. The first section discusses the use of technology to monitor patients’ emotional responses to illness and its treatment, as well as the role of technology in meeting the fundamental human need for information. Section Two describes the use of technology in mediating emotions within and between individuals, and addresses the implications for the design and use of devices that gather behavioral health data and contribute to healthcare interventions. The final section assesses different situations in which technology is a key component of the health intervention—such as tablet use in educating elementary school students with social skills difficulty, physical activity monitoring for children at risk for obesity, and teleconferencing for older adults at risk of social isolation. Shows how information on the internet significantly affects the medical decision-making process for many consumers Describes current applications of social computing and quick access to mental health information on portable electronic devices Discusses how cyber-communication may both impair and enhance one’s sense of humanity Details the role of visual media in mediating emotion and memory of time

Emotions, Technology, and Digital Games

2015-09-25 Psychology

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Release : 2015-09-25
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Emotions, Technology, and Digital Games written by . This book was released on 2015-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions, Technology, and Digital Games explores the need for people to experience enjoyment, excitement, anxiety, anger, frustration, and many other emotions. The book provides essential information on why it is necessary to have a greater understanding of the power these emotions have on players, and how they affect players during, and after, a game. This book takes this understanding and shows how it can be used in practical ways, including the design of video games for teaching and learning, creating tools to measure social and emotional development of children, determining how empathy-related thought processes affect ethical decision-making, and examining how the fictional world of game play can influence and shape real-life experiences. Details how games affect emotions—both during and after play Describes how we can manage a player’s affective reactions Applies the emotional affect to making games more immersive Examines game-based learning and education Identifies which components of online games support socio-emotional development Discusses the impact of game-based emotions beyond the context of games

Emotions, Technology, and Social Media

2016-05-30 Psychology

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Release : 2016-05-30
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Emotions, Technology, and Social Media written by . This book was released on 2016-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions, Technology, and Social Media discusses the ways the social media sphere uses emotion and technology, and how each of these has become part of the digital culture. The book explores this expression within a psychological theoretical framework, addressing feelings about social media, and its role in education and knowledge generation. The second section investigates the expression of feelings within social media spaces, while subsequent sections adopt a paradigm of active audience consumption to use social media to express feelings and maintain social connectivity. Discusses the significant relationships between Web 2.0 technologies and learning traits Presents studies about Facebook usage and individual emotional states Investigates the shared emotions in the construction of “cyberculture Shows the extent to which scientists use social media in their work, and the ways in which they use the social media Analyzes the consequences of the online disinhibition effect Examines YouTube as a source of opinions and discussions which can be used to track the emotions evoked by videos and the emotions expressed through textual comments Details how Reddit users’ media choices are emotionally useful and gratifying in the “memeplex Links social interaction and the emotional life with that of digital devices and resources

Emotions, Technology, Design, and Learning

2015-10-07 Education

Author : Sharon Y. Tettegah
Release : 2015-10-07
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Emotions, Technology, Design, and Learning written by Sharon Y. Tettegah. This book was released on 2015-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions, Technology, Design, and Learning provides an update to the topic of emotional responses and how technology can alter what is being learned and how the content is learned. The design of that technology is inherently linked to those emotional responses. This text addresses emotional design and pedagogical agents, and the emotions they generate. Topics include design features such as emoticons, speech recognition, virtual avatars, robotics, and adaptive computer technologies, all as relating to the emotional responses from virtual learning. Addresses the emotional design specific to agent-based learning environments Discusses the use of emoticons in online learning, providing an historical overview of animated pedagogical agents Includes evidence-based insights on how to properly use agents in virtual learning environments Focuses on the development of a proper architecture to be able to have and express emotions Reviews the literature in the field of advanced agent-based learning environments Explores how educational robotic activities can divert students’ emotions from internal to external

Emotions, Technology, and Design

2015-12-28 Psychology

Author : Sharon Tettegah
Release : 2015-12-28
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Emotions, Technology, and Design written by Sharon Tettegah. This book was released on 2015-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional design explicitly addresses the emotional relationship between the objects and the subjects of design—in this book, the objects are technologies, and the subjects are technology users. The first section delves into the philosophy and theory of emotional design to provide a foundation for the rest of the book, which goes on to discuss emotional design principles, the design and use of emoticons, and then intelligent agents in a variety of settings. A conclusion chapter covers future research and directions. Emotions, Technology, and Design provides a thorough look at how technology design affects emotions and how to use that understanding to in practical applications. Discusses the role of culture, trust, and identity in empathetic technology Presents a framework for using sound to elicit positive emotional responses Details the emotional use of color in design Explores the use of emoticons, earcons, and tactons Addresses the emotional design specific to agent-based environments

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