Designing Juicy Feedback Loops
The term “juicy feedback” comes from game design when a small action produces a surprisingly large reaction. Here are six design ideas relevant to products intended to change people’s behavior. 1)...
View ArticleHacking Health at MIT
At the core of our healthcare crisis is a crippling lack of patient engagement. I’ve talked about this before. Historically, this has been viewed as a compliance problem, but at the MIT Media Lab, this...
View ArticleDesigning the Stress Watch
Last year, I worked with Kendra Markle, an expert on behavioral change, who worked with Kaiser Permanente and with BJ Fogg at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab. Together we designed an executive...
View ArticleNPR’s Bruce Gellerman Talks about Ambient Devices
My recent interview with Bruce Gellerman on the power of ambient technology to enact change in our energy consumption. “We have this big field in our peripherial vision that we are all born with. It’s...
View ArticleSunSprite: The First Solar-Powered Wearable
Over the past year, I’ve helped invent a first-of-its-kind wearable device called SunSprite. It’s a small clip and connected app that helps people measure their daily exposure to bright light. Like a...
View ArticleCityHome: Living Small in the City
The era of the McMansions is drawing to a close and people are flocking to urban centers, seeking the economy, convenience, and green living that only a city can offer. But many of us still want the...
View ArticleReinventing the Mirror
Even though we are buying more of everything online, retail stores will still play an important role in tomorrow’s cityscape, and there will be a myriad of ways to enhance the shopping experience. Take...
View ArticleEnchanted Workshop in Copenhagen
Last week, I co-taught an Enchanted Objects workshop with a magician from London. The venue was the Copenhagen Interaction Design Institute with 25 masters-level students from 16 countries. My...
View ArticleDesigning the Enchanted Future: An Interview with O’Reilly
Reprinted from radar.oreilly.com I recently sat down with David Rose, entrepreneur, instructor, and researcher at MIT Media Lab, and author of Enchanted Objects. Rose refers to everyday objects with...
View ArticleMIT Connected THINGS Conference interview
Connected Things 2015 starts tomorrow at the MIT Media Lab. In conjunction with all of the razzel dazzle I did this interview with Randall Cronk for his Thought Leader podcast. Listen to the podcast...
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