symplicit ignite melbourne august 2011 - jodie moule - v1

Jodie Moule

Director @Symplicit

(Psychologist)

When you look at the image Iflash up

half-full

not full enough

glass at all?

Humans like happy people ☺

I spent my clinical years focused on peoples misery

An absence of distress does not equal happiness

Positive Psychology is

So what do you need to flourish and be happy anyway?

Positive emotions are not just a phenomenon

So how do we engage users though a theory of happiness?

You need a 3:1 ratio of happy occurrences to negative occurrences to be happy and flourish

So when is the last time you really smiled at a service you received?

technology made you smile?

Language and imagery combined makes us smile

What can we learn from games?

Getting it wrong makes us more resilient

Next time you hear something negative

So go on, get happy ☺

Thank you!

@jodiemoule@symplicitM: 0415 288 823

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