Institute For The Future

Manamana as persuasive technology

I just stumbled on a post about this novelty scale that has no numbers, only affirmations....

Games and Education / Games as Education

Last week the New York based Games for Learning Institute, in conjunction with NYU, hosted a lecture by game developer Will Wright. I've been thinking...

Neuromarketing and soup labels

Several weeks ago, I posted about a possible resurgence in neuromarketing, using brain imaging and other physiological monitoring to directly measure...

Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, Twitter and the art of persuasion

If you are a Bollywood fan then you have probably heard of Shahrukh Khan. If you don’t then check out the Wikipedia entry on him....

Wearing Your Medicine

Was your lunch yesterday 400 calories or 500 calories? Whatever the answer is, you probably don't know it. Which is what makes a prototype patch that...

Enablement

I read something from Zach Lynch the other day and I am thinking about whether his idea can be applied beyond his neurocentric framework....

Self-reflection as a form of persuasion

From the MIT Media Lab, a project called: "ReflectOns: Mental Prostheses for Self-Reflection."

From Guesswork to Automated Nutrition

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From Computational to Biological Previews

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Varied Notes on Synthetic Biology

I haven’t placed this in one of the research templates just yet due to an inability to figure out how to make sense of synthetic biology research....

First Round Research: From Self-Experiments to Life-Doulas

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First Round Research: From Longevity to Labyrinth

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In the pursuit of Well-Being, Resilience and Multigenerational Health

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The Flintstones and the Epistemological Rapture

A recent survey by the University of Texas/Texas Tribune showed that 30% of Texans believed that humans and dinosaurs lived together at the same...

Life as a Persuasive Role Playing Game

Here's a video of an energetic and provocative talk by Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon Professor, and former Disney Imagineer, on how we will be...

The Great Recession and community currencies

The Great recession has brought into focus the role community currencies (sometimes referred as complementary currency) can play in fostering local...

What do we have and what do we need?

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Jake Research Nut Cluster 1: 21st Century Quarantines

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Jake Research Nut Cluster 2: Subjective Measurements

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The Onion and the Future of Persuasion

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Helping others see the pollution you hear

As part of our ongoing work examining the intersection of health and citizen-environmental monitoring, we are always on the look out for new products...

3-d bioprinting (and other miscellaneous 3-d printing signals)

Three recent articles have looked at the pending commercialization of 3-d printing: ...