The Acagamic

Alexei Kapterev is a visual com­mu­ni­ca­tion spe­cial­ist and pre­sen­ta­tion design con­sul­tant, who has assem­bled a great pre­sen­ta­tion on the cur­rent state of the art of hap­pi­ness research. As part of this pre­sen­ta­tion he revis­its cen­tral ideas of pos­i­tive psy­chol­ogy, such as Flow, which have been dis­cussed promi­nently in game research, espe­cially game expe­ri­ence research as well. The talk also ties in nicely with yesterday’s pre­sen­ta­tion on the Future of Work. Since cor­re­la­tions between hap­pi­ness and other areas of every­day life are dis­cussed. The visual aes­thetic of the slides speaks for itself. Again, keep­ing this brief. Enjoy the presentation.

Jeff Brenman’s talk about the future of work is a very inspir­ing and great pre­sen­ta­tion (he works at a pre­sen­ta­tion con­sult­ing firm) that might come off as a lit­tle bit off topic here, but sub­stan­tially most of the chang­ing cir­cum­stances of our work­ing lives men­tioned in his talk are due to the peo­ple grow­ing up with games. I am cur­rently read­ing the book “Got Game” (by Beck and Wade) which is exactly ana­lyz­ing this aspect of the changed gen­er­a­tion and cul­ture that our gam­ing habit has cre­ated. Nevertheless, it is almost Christmas, so I will keep it brief. Enjoy the excel­lent pre­sen­ta­tion. Read the rest of this entry »