mappiness maps happiness across space in the UK. Its part of a research project at the London School of Economics. Wed love to have you on board!
*** NOTE: If youre not in the UK, please see http://www.mappiness.org.uk/ for an important message about time zones ***
HOW DOES IT WORK?
- You download the app, open it, and sign up
- We beep you once (or more) a day to ask how youre feeling, and a few basic things to control for: who youre with, where you are, what youre doing (if youre outdoors, you can also take a photo)
- The data gets sent back — anonymously and securely — to our data store, along with your approximate location from the iPhones GPS, and a noise-level measure
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU?
- Interesting information about your own happiness, which is charted inside the app and available for private download — including when, where and with whom youre happiest
- The warm glow of helping increase the sum of human knowledge
WHATS IN IT FOR US?
- Were particularly interested in how peoples happiness is affected by their local environment — air pollution, noise, green spaces, and so on — which the data from mappiness will be absolutely great for investigating
- We hope to have some results published in academic journals, and elsewhere — whatever we produce will be linked from our website, http://www.mappiness.org.uk
FIND OUT MORE
For more information, visit http://www.mappiness.org.uk, or download the app, open it, and choose Find out more.