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A pair of researchers from the London School of Economics' Department of Geography & Environment are measuring happiness throughout the U.K. And to do it, they've created an iPhone app called Mappiness. Although, on the surface, it doesn't seem to be that new a concept--remember Harvard student Matt Killingworth's Track Your Happiness app from last year?--this year's U.K.-centric model wants to discover just how much a person's environment affects his or her wellbeing.
The project launched yesterday, following a week-long pilot to check the tech, and currently has over 1,600 participants. Once signed up, the app pings users on their iPhone once a day or more, asking them to key in just how happy, relaced and awake they feel, using the app's sliding scale, and finds out what they are doing, who they are with, and where they are--photo optional. As well as human input, the app measures location using the phone's GPS and noise levels via the microphone.
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A pair of researchers from the London School of Economics' Department of Geography & Environment are measuring happiness throughout the U.K. And to do it, they've created an iPhone app called Mappiness. Although, on the surface, it doesn't seem to be that new a concept--remember Harvard student Matt Killingworth's Track Your Happiness app from last year?--this year's U.K.-centric model wants to discover just how much a person's environment affects his or her wellbeing.
The project launched yesterday, following a week-long pilot to check the tech, and currently has over 1,600 participants. Once signed up, the app pings users on their iPhone once a day or more, asking them to key in just how happy, relaced and awake they feel, using the app's sliding scale, and finds out what they are doing, who they are with, and where they are--photo optional. As well as human input, the app measures location using the phone's GPS and noise levels via the microphone.
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