Category Behavioral sciences

Behavioral sciences, Book, Design (general)

[Book] Engaged: Designing for Behavioral Change

Behavior change design creates entrancing - and effective - products and experiences. Whether you've studied psychology or are new to the field, you can incorporate behavior change principles into your designs to help people achieve meaningful goals, learn and grow, and connect with one another.

Experientia
7 Sep 2020

AI, Behavioral sciences, Conference, Ethnography, Technology

Anthropology and technology conference

The Anthropology + Technology conference brings together pioneering technologists and social scientists from across the globe. Its aim is to facilitate dialogue on emerging technology projects in order to help businesses benefit from more socially-responsible AI.

Experientia
4 Sep 2020

Behavioral sciences, Socio-cultural change

Four priorities from the social changes for shaping the post-pandemic world

The social sciences don't produce much in the way of patentable widgets or, indeed, life-saving vaccines. However, the analysis and insights they generate can and do underpin better-evidenced decisions and help guide and target insights from the "natural" sciences.

Experientia
26 Aug 2020

Behavioral sciences, HCD / UXD, Technology (general)

Security isn’t just a technology problem – it’s about design, too

While it's easy to blame the user, phishing schemes have become incredibly sophisticated and believable. So, instead of blaming the user, we want to instead bring an empathetic lens, and understand more about their needs.

Experientia
26 Jul 2020

Behavioral sciences, HCD / UXD, Health

The public’s role in COVID-19 vaccination

This report considers human factors in relation to future vaccines against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), drawing on insights from design thinking and the social, behavioral, and communication sciences. It provides recommendations on how to advance public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of vaccines that protect against COVID-19.

Experientia
26 Jul 2020

Behavioral sciences, Book

Behavioural science and the response to COVID-19: a missed opportunity?

While the role of behavioural science in the UK's handling of the pandemic has been criticised, Peter John and Gerry Stoker argue that it is important for governments to try and influence citizens' behaviour rather than rely on laws that are harder to enforce. They nevertheless explain why a different "nudging" approach ought to have been used in this case.

Experientia
27 May 2020

Behavioral sciences, Health, Socio-cultural change

Mass panic unlikely during pandemics

Two articles, one by Matt Simon in Wired and another by Benedict Carey in the New York Times, summarize scientific research that illustrates why mass panic is unlikely in this pandemic situation.

Experientia
19 Mar 2020

Behavioral sciences, Health

[Book] The Psychology of Pandemics

This book describes the psychological reactions to pandemics, including maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and defensive reactions, and reviews the psychological vulnerability factors that contribute to the spreading of disease and distress.

Experientia
12 Mar 2020

Behavioral sciences

The ethics of nudging

No "knockdown" objection has appeared to date that should make us reject the nudge approach overall. At the same time, serious ethical concerns have emerged that should guide and inform discussions around whether and which particular nudge policies should be pursued, and, if so, how.

Experientia
3 Mar 2020

Behavioral sciences, Book, Experience design

[Book] The Power of Not Thinking

In this book, leading business anthropologist Simon Roberts breaks down the revolutionary idea of embodied knowledge: the information that is unconsciously picked up by our body for use in almost every area of our lives.

Experientia
2 Mar 2020

Behavioral sciences

Why facts don’t change our minds

Humans' biggest advantage over other species is our ability to cooperate.

Experientia
1 Mar 2020

Behavioral sciences, Foresight

Imagining the next decade of behavioral science

The editor in chief of Behavioral Scientist asked 120 behavioral scientists around the world how they imagined the next decade of behavioral science: hopes and fears, predictions and warnings, open questions and big ideas.

Experientia
3 Feb 2020

Behavioral sciences, Education, Experientia, Italy, Turin

Experientia launches a training program on “Behavioral Design & Cultural Transformation within the Cottino Social Impact Campus

Experientia is offering a new behavioral design training program within the new Cottino Social Impact Campus, the first center in Europe dedicated to impact education. The “Behavioral Design & Cultural Transformation” course (scheduled 23 to 27 March) is aimed at…

Experientia
7 Jan 2020

Behavioral sciences, Education, Experientia, Italy, Turin

Experientia lancia un programma di formazione su “Design comportamentale e trasformazione delle culture” entro il Cottino Social Impact Campus

Experientia lancerà un nuovissimo programma di formazione su Design comportamentale e trasformazione delle culture all'interno del Cottino Social Impact Campus, primo centro in Europa dedicato all'impact education, con un nuovo programma di formazione sul design comportamentale.

Experientia
7 Jan 2020

AI, Behavioral sciences, Ethnography

The anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence

The algorithms that underlie much of the modern world have grown so complex that we always can’t predict what they’ll do. Iyad Rahwan, who directs the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, proposes…

Experientia
27 Aug 2019

Behavioral sciences, Book, Culture, UserResearch

[Book] The Costs of Connection

The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias Stanford University Press August 2019, 352 pages Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity…

Experientia
24 Aug 2019

Behavioral sciences, HCD / UXD, UserResearch

Research findings send automated sentiment analysis to the trash bin

The age of social media has opened up exciting opportunities for researchers to investigate people’s emotional states on a massive scale. For example, one study found that tweets contain more positive emotional words in the morning, which was interpreted as…

Experientia
31 Mar 2019

Behavioral sciences, Research, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Consumer behaviour and the circular economy

Report: Behavioural Study on Consumers’ Engagement in the Circular Economy London Economics for the European Commission – Consumers Health and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) 23 October 2018, 202 pages The objective of this study was to provide policy-relevant insights on…

Experientia
18 Nov 2018

Behavioral sciences, Business, Ethnography, Innovation, Methods

How SAP’s SuccessFactors used anthropology to understand its customers

As part of a new approach to user interfaces, Amy Wilson, Head of Product at SAP SuccessFactors, pulled designers together with behavioral scientists with backgrounds in cultural anthropology. The goal was to help the designers better understand the way most…

Experientia
10 Oct 2018

Behavioral sciences, Data, Foresight, Scenarios

Uninformed consent

Leslie K. John, a behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School, is specialized in the psychology of privacy decisions. In this excellent cover story for the Harvard Business Review, she analyzes why people are so bad at making decisions about their…

Experientia
22 Sep 2018

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