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Hacking Reality BetterBenjamin Olmsted
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Is it possible to turn phone rings into
a reason to :)?
Empirically, yes!
Yes it is.
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Check it:
Anytime you hear a phone:
:)
[Breathing in I calm my body,
Breathing out I smile.]
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Ten 20-something year olds
4 Days
+114 smiles
Joy Creation [and +3.3 smiles per person per day]
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Not important right nowYou want to know how we did it.
Did what?
Added a new behavior (smiling)
to an existing trigger (phone ring)
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Let me repeat that
We added a
new behavior (smiling) to an
existing trigger (phone ring)
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A day in the Trial
• 11 am - “Visualize a phone ringing later in the day. Smile at the ring.”
• 2 pm - “:)”
• 9 pm - “How many times did you smile @ rings today?”
The participants were texted 3 times per day
Participants texted back a number.
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Ten 20-something year olds
4 Days
+114 smiles
Joy Creation [and +3.3 smiles per person per day]
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Layering Pro-social behavior over existing social networks:
Win
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Living with People Is Stressful
Over 9 months...
2 houses
20 Housemates
No maids
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[Stuff] builds up.
Like dishes.
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So we clean them.
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...and they pile up again.
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So we clean them again.
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But we don’t have the emotional tools to clean
up the resentment.
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Sure enough, the dishes pile up again.
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And the Resentment grows and grows.
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The dishes pile up.
For 9 months.
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How do we get though this accumulation of interpersonal kitchen scuz to connect
with our friends?
@#$@ who never cleans his oatmeal pot
Friend!
?
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Babies!
No. That would be unethical.
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Plus, we can’t handle dishes...
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Children: designed to be loved!
Large eyes
High cheekbones
Soft skin
Small Chin
Big Ol’ Head!
(1,2)
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So, what did we do?
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1) Curated Baby photos for each of the 20 housemates
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2) Made a Blog
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3) Posted Every Day
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4) Emailed participants
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Stats
• 28 users (~17 active users)
• 100 replies to 12 posts.
• Approximately 1000 words in response to each post
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Speculations• Habits of perception may offer very large
shifts w/r/t calming.
• Targeting existing, strong networks (i.e. family/highly connected social groups) with prosocial interventions is +++ good.
• Leaving open the possibility of heroic participation, especially when the users are highly motivated and capable, leave room for outrageous outcomes.
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Science!
• 1) Lishner, David A., Luis V. Oceja, E. L. Stocks, and Kirstin Zaspel. "The Effect of Infant-like Characteristics on Empathic Concern for Adults in Need." Motivation and Emotion 32.4 (2008): 270-77. Web.
• 2) Berry, Diane S., and Leslie Z. McArthur. "Some Components and Consequences of a Babyface." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48.2 (1985): 312-23. Print.
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What if?
• Stop lights were wondrous?
• Your project teams saw each other as children?
• We taught children the abstract skill of re-mapping stressors into triggers for joy, love, and calm?
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[Meta] - Words • It definitely helped lower my stress while I was working on my term papers, etc.
• Baby pictures set up a nice trajectory. (WHOA, baby Reed was awesome, Reed right now is awesome, old man Reed is going to be awesome!)
• "Shining Like the Sun" gave me a more balanced sense of my friends as beings in time. It helped to reduce the anxiety I feel associated with leaving them.
• It may be an unfortunately easy tendency to criticize and condemn your friends and neighbors for their human faults on a day-to-day basis, but it's so fortunately easy to love a child, and to see that we all come from that place of open, joyful, innocence that dissolves all negativity.
• It has filled me with love and admiration for my fellow Ithakans; it helps me ponder and appreciate their past trajectories and their future ones, and brings excitement to think how said trajectories will intersect in the future.In reflection, I find some calmness and resolve at the prospect of Ithaka 1.0's dispersal
The blog is currently private
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