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Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential
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A case for building a digital environment that can make us happier and healthier, not just more productive, and a theoretical framework for doing so. On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves people's lives. Technology, so pervasive and ubiquitous, has the capacity to increase stress and suffering; but it also has the less-heralded potential to improve the well-being of individuals, society, and the planet. In this book, Rafael Calvo and Dorian Peters investigate what they term “positive computing”—the design and development of technology to support psychological well-being and human potential. Calvo and Peters explain that technologists' growing interest in social good is part of a larger public concern about how our digital experience affects our emotions and our quality of life—which itself reflects an emerging focus on humanistic values in many different disciplines. Synthesizing theory, knowledge, and empirical methodologies from a variety of fields, they offer a rigorous and coherent foundational framework for positive computing. Sidebars by experts from psychology, neuroscience, human–computer interaction, and other disciplines supply essential context. Calvo and Peters examine specific well-being factors, including positive emotions, self-awareness, mindfulness, empathy, and compassion, and explore how technology can support these factors. Finally, they offer suggestions for future research and funding. Sidebars Timothy N. Bickmore, Jeremy Bailenson, danah boyd, Jane Burns, David R. Caruso, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Felicia Huppert, Mary-Helen Immordino-Yang, Adele Krusche and J. Mark G. Williams, Jane McGonigal, Jonathan Nicholas, Don Norman, Yvonne Rogers
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Self-citationKim, B., Lee, S.-W., Hong, H., & Han, K. (2019) · IEEE Access · doi:10.1109/access.2019.2926743 · Cited by 13
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“Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored For all other uses, contact the Owner Conference’10 , Month 1–2, 2010, City, State, Country.”
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Self-citationAI Extenders and the Ethics of Mental Health
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BackgroundIntercultural Ethics for Digital Well-Being: Identifying Problems and Exploring Solutions
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“Philosophers who are interested in values tied to human well-being have often regarded themselves as facing an analogous choice (Brey, 2015, 2017; Calvo & Peters, 2013, 2014; Poel 2012; Swierstra & Waelbers, 2012).”
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BackgroundWeak Robots: Relational-Oriented Approach to Human Well-being
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Social Co‐OS: Cyber‐human social Co‐operating system
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An Impact-Centered, Sustainable, Positive Experience Design Model
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BackgroundAffect and Wellbeing: Introduction to Special Section
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“The central premise of Positive Computing is designing for wellbeing which, includes freedom from stress and pressure.”
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“From the idea of Positive Psychology came the fields of Positive Technology [8] and Computing [9], [10].”
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InfluentialInternet of Things Applied to Mental Health: Concepts, Applications, and Perspectives
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Self-citationMulti-Touch Gesture of Mobile Auditory Device for Visually Impaired Users
Putra, Z. P., Setiawan, D., Priambodo, B., Jumaryadi, Y., & Anasanti, M. D. (2020) · International Conference on Broadband Communications, Wireless Sensors and Powering (BCWSP) · doi:10.1109/bcwsp50066.2020.9249457 · Cited by 6
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“In addition, compared to concepts postulating well-being informed design (e.g. Calvo & Peters, 2014), positive cyberpsychology appears as a perspective that goes beyond the question of ‘what’ to the questions of ‘how’ and ‘why’ in explaining the positive impact of human-technology interaction…”
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“Affective-computing frameworks (Picard, 1997; Calvo & Peters, 2014 ) propose that AI can recognize, interpret, and respond to human emotion, closing the loop between sensing and adaptation.”
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“…second, promoting digital well-being by providing users with insights into their usage patterns and offering suggestions for healthier habits (Calvo & Peters, 2014); third, ensuring that reward mechanisms within applications, such as notifications and gamification elements, do not exploit…”
Assessing Ethical Risks in Smart Environment Use Cases: A ForSTI Methodological Approach
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“This method of transforming reflective user needs into practical technology builds on previous theoretical work in HCI such as meaningful HCI and positive computing [10, 11].”
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“Yet wellbeing has been increasingly taken into account in HCI, through work in positive design [15] and positive computing [10] among others, and such research has contributed to our understanding of how technologies might support psychological wellbeing.”
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AI & Well-Being: Can AI Make You Happy in the City
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Predicting Mood from Digital Footprints Using Frequent Sequential Context Patterns Features
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“Further, interaction designers can modify their application designs after evaluating the users ’ emotional experience to improve user experience (Peter & Beale, 2008) or to support wellbeing (Calvo & Peters, 2014; Peters, Calvo, & Ryan, 2018).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Calvo, R. A., & Peters, D.
- Venue
- The MIT Press eBooks
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2014-11-28
- OpenAlex
- W4249654063
- Cited by
- 376
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 51 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 14.14
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The MIT Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- positive computing, psychological well-being, positive emotions, self-awareness, mindfulness, empathy, compassion, humanistic values, quality of life, human-computer interaction, emotion regulation
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