{"id":283,"date":"2010-09-06T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=283"},"modified":"2010-09-06T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T14:48:26","slug":"mappiness-mappiness-the-greatest-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/09\/06\/mappiness-mappiness-the-greatest-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Mappiness, mappiness; the greatest gift ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw this in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappiness.org.uk\">SDRN mailing<\/a>, I thought researchers have discovered what many already know: happiness through looking at, and using, maps. \u00a0Not so. \u00a0Read on, especially you iPhoners:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers at the London School of Economics have created a new iPhone application intended to map happiness across the UK. \u00a0Researchers will beep users once a day to ask how users are feeling, and a few basic things to control for: who they are with, where they are, what they're doing. \u00a0This data gets sent back - anonymously and securely - to their data store, along with the user's approximate location from the iPhone's GPS, and a noise-level measure. \u00a0The researchers are keen to understand how people's feelings are affected by features of their current environment, including factors such as air pollution, noise and green spaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just how happy you'll be at being beeped every day remains to be seen (sounds a bit like voluntary stalking). \u00a0I'm waiting for the movie. \u00a0More at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappiness.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.mappiness.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw this in the latest SDRN mailing, I thought researchers have discovered what many already know: happiness through looking at, and using, maps. \u00a0Not so. \u00a0Read on, especially you iPhoners: Researchers at the London School of Economics have...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}