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Episode 40: The Epilogue To Your Digital Story – How You’ll Be Remembered After You Die

This week we discuss how a person’s behavior on social media tells a story, even after they die, and what effect that may have on family and friends. A recent death in Josué’s family sparked a lot of thoughts regarding the importance of online social networking, relationships, and how our online footprint will leave a digital legacy, one way or another.

Episode 39: What’s Your Uber-Passenger Rating? The On-Demand Burn Book

On Wednesdays we wear pink… and talk about the implications and possible consequences of people rating people. Kelli and Josué explore their thoughts and feelings about Uber and other on-demand services’ rating of customers. The examine the potential psychological pitfalls of assigning values to people as humans versus rating professionals or services. They discuss different ways of evaluating evaluations and rating raters. Be sure to stay all the way to the end to find out how Kelli and Josué were rated by their Uber drivers.

Episode 38: League Of Legends Research… Super Exciting Or Concerning?

We discuss the news that developer Riot Games has presented some of its League of Legends players with a survey that seems to measure narcissism and aggression. We talk about the ethics of what Riot is doing, research in the games industry, and how much we want to see the data.

Episode 37: Superbetter Fan Club Book Club #3

Like Return of the Jedi, the third installment of our PsychTech Superbetter Fan Club Book Club is the best yet! We cover chapters 9 – 12, rant passionately about feedback loops, discuss the importance of allies, explore the power of identity, and share some of the ways they’ve been getting Superbetter.

Episode 36: Superbetter Fan Club Book Club #2

The Superbetter love continues! We cover chapter 5-8 of Jane McGonigal’s Superbetter and dive deep into the first four rules of how to be gameful: 1) Challenge yourself, 2) collect and activate power-ups, 3) find and battle the bad guys, 4) seek out and complete quests.

Episode 35: Superbetter Fan Club Book Club #1

We’re diving into Jane McGonigal’s Superbetter this week. It’s a long book so we’re taking our time. We cover chapters 1-4, Josué proposes some questionable practices, and Kelli gets to process her feelings about playing with strangers.

Episode 34: Josué and Jane

We’re celebrating SuperBetter Day on PsychTech! Josué talks about his experience of meeting Jane McGonigal, getting a book signed for Kelli, and a special something for PsychTech listeners. Kelli shares her SuperBetter Day activities and the duo explore the beginnings of SuperBetter and its wide-ranging implications.

Episode 33: Back to School

After a hectic August, Kelli and Josué play catch-up and share their exciting adventures as they transition out of summer break. Josué talks about what he’s been up to in his new job as technology guru at a grade school. Kelli talks about her PAX experience and some of the projects she’s been working on as a game design student.

Episode 32: Expertise on Demand

Kelli is at PAX Prime so this week Josué interviewed his good friend Vlad who has been using apps for what he calls “expertise on demand.” Can experts in fields including nutrition and fashion use apps to facilitate more effective behavioral change? Josué and Vlad discuss how these apps can work so well and why.

Episode 31: Anti-Social Behavior And Game Design

Is it possible to design games and apps in ways that can reduce anti-social behavior? Kelli and Josué discuss a talk on the subject by Ben Lewis-Evans, PhD from this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC). We discuss examples from popular video games and social networks that we feel are doing a great job designing positive user experiences.