Boredom in the Web – Can Social Networks Make You Unhappy?
Most of us use social networks to share our status, pictures and to us meaningful experience with family, friend and whoever is interested in our life. Are you happy or bored in the web? Happy Web...
View ArticleLiving in the Era of Virtual Conversations
In our ever more digital world of innovative communication technology, social networks and advancing message applications, conversations are seemingly becoming more virtual than face-to-face....
View ArticleWhen Computers Read What You Feel – Face-Reading Technology
Even if you don’t want to reveal your emotions, most of us will still show small facial expressions that are visible only to a best friends and family. Since ancient times, humans are systematically...
View ArticleTechnology – The Innovation of Loneliness?
We all are ever more connected with each other – connected to our friends at the other end of the world and next door and even our roommates. I am not talking about the connection that we get through...
View ArticleA Mobile App to Reduce Anxiety? – New Applications of Gamification Improving...
In the U.S., anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness. It is affecting 40 million adults in the age 18 and older (18% of U.S. population). There is a great disparity between the need and...
View ArticleUnderstanding How the Brain Understands Code
Most people think that computer programming is associated with math. A recent study by Christian Kästner, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and Janet Siegmund, researcher at the...
View ArticleTechnology is Changing Our Brains
Neuroplasticity refers to changes in the brain’s neural pathways based on changes in behavior, environment and neural processes. It plays an integral role in development, learning, memory and brain...
View ArticleExploring Your Brain Using Virtual Reality
Reading a recent article about virtually representing persons’ brains brought my thoughts back to the Iron Man 3 movie, where main characters walked through a real-time holographic brain projection....
View ArticleA Smartphone App To Help People With Bipolar Disorder
The interest in using smartphone apps in psychiatry is continuously growing. Patients are looking for improved tools to manage their own illnesses. Mental healthcare professionals aim to better...
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