Class Project
This is an hands-on class where at the end you will have actually "discovered", "built", and "validated" some bits of knowledge on happiness or some technique to promote happiness.
Final presentation
On Friday each group will have 10-15 minutes to present the results of the project. Below we explain what we expect from each type of project.
Concept prototype
Groups who are working on prototyping solutions should include:
description of the problem
show some understanding of the problem and users (literature review, results of a survey, personas)
conceptual model / description of the solution
video that showcases your idea and application / mockups
some validation / feedback (qualitative / questionaries)
Meta-analysis
Groups who are working on Gallup data or who are reviewing papers should include in the presentation:
Research question
Motivation (why is this question important/relevant?)
Hypothesis
Scatterplots & Analyses
Interpretation & conclusion
Don't forget to help each other in evaluating your solutions. Be kind, it'll make you happier :))
Kinds of projects
There are several different kinds of projects you can do:
Research a specific topic, find and read a set of papers about it, analyze related Gallup data, and draw your conclusions
Ideate and prototype a tool that aims at, for example, alleviating stress, providing joy, measuring happiness.
Design and validate a study
General topic: happiness and older adults
The specific topic you want to work on is up to you. As a suggestion, here we list some possible overall topics:
give opportunity to people to be kind, compassionate, grateful,
give opportunity to have experiences
give opportunity to interact
dig deeper on why old adults in certain regions seem to have worse sleep quality or find hard to find interesting things
dig deeper on money, spending and happiness in later life
Groups
Groups should follow these guidelines:
6-10 people per group
maximum 8 groups
each group should have at least one russian-speaking person
members of at least 2 different nations in each group
we will try to have a spread of disciplines in each group
Groups formation proceeds as follows:
Write on a piece of paper a general topic and a kind of project, or add your name to one that exists already.
Or enter it here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pk5Ez8lCUSiTLLnfIBFeRTEHIEQSlKIc_bCQN3DMcZg/viewform
We will then form groups and publish them on this web site.
Deliverables
Project results are delivered and presented on Friday morning. You deliverables and presentation can be in various forms:
a "traditional" document
a set of slides
a video
a design prototype with applications such as invisionapp
a small tool
survey questions and results
You can be arbitrarily creative about it.....
Results from the group projects
Bablo: presentation
money and happiness: presentation