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Framework of Motivated Behaviour
As I’ve reported here before I’m in the middle of an MPhil researching the role of motivation in design and how designers can identify and design to encourage motivated behaviour of a suitable nature....
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Design for Self-Service – A motivational psychology perspective
Jason Cooper (@jasecoop) fired out some quick Twitter research this afternoon inquiring after people’s perceptions of the self-service checkout machines we are increasingly faced with at supermarkets...
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Motivational Design Framework v.0.1
Apologies for the recent blogging hiatus, in large part due to the launch last week of The Ergonomics Real Design Exhibition at the Design Museum which I have been working on over the last year and...
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Managing Motivation
Julian Birkinshaw from the excellent Unstructure blog has asked me to contribute to the discussion he has eloquently started on the role of employee motivation in the changing dynamic of today’s...
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View more presentations from Fergus Bisset. This is a fairly comprehensive presentation of the underlying philosophy and research behind my masters work in helping designers visualise and support...
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Interview with Dan Pink on Motivation
As part of the ongoing promotion of his new book Drive, Dan Pink gives an interview discussing some of the underlying theories and principles which he has repackaged as a management book. I’m looking...
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A Big Day for British Youth and Winter Sports – An Inspiration For The Rest...
As all of us will most likely now be aware the Winter Olympic Games have started in Vancouver Canada. It’s now day four of the games and that means the first day of cross-country skiing events. These...
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Simultaneous Translation – The Olympics and Communication For A Better World
As I mentioned in my last post, I have been fortunate over the past week to have been invited to Singapore to participate in a Seminar ahead of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games to be held there this...
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Olympic Day 2010 – An update from the International Olympic Academy
Well first of all, apologies for my recent social media hiatus, particularly from this blog, I’ve been trying to cut back in an attempt to finish writing up my MPhil dissertation on Measuring...
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The Motivational Design Dilemma
I was very interested to read an article dealing with the perennial challenges associated with striking the optimum balance between organisational control and individual empowerment or motivation a few...
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Experience Service Design
This past week I have been in Finland attending the Experience Service Design conference and workshop in Kuopio Finland. I’d like to take this opportunity straight off the bat to thank Satu Miettinen...
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Motivational Design Personas
As I’ve mentioned a few times this blog is in part a platform from which to share my experiences and progress as I complete my MPhil in Design Research at Brunel University in West London. Things have...
View ArticleWhat Are User Needs?
My research around the past couple of posts on participatory processes and the responses they have generated have helped focus my attention on an issue that has interested me for some time – the...
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Fabricant Should Be Aware – Persuasion Requires More Belief and Less Judgement
I’ve been mulling over Robert Fabricant’s ‘Ethnographic Defense’ post from the beginning of the week. Mulling because when I first read it I got quite worked up and decided to leave it until I’d calmed...
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