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Sometimes I wish I worked in an office so I could actually talk with someone.
Especially this time of the year.
#Wellbeing #WFH

Head down for a day of coaching, project planning - and a webinar at 1pm all about #coaching and #wellbeing. If you'd like to join (it's free!) here's the Zoom link:

Wellbeing-Centered UX: Supporting Content Moderators
Diana Mihalache, Dalila Szostak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07187 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07187

Wellbeing-Centered UX: Supporting Content Moderators
This chapter focuses on the intersection of user experience (UX) and wellbeing in the context of content moderation. Human content moderators play a key role in protecting end users from harm by detecting, evaluating, and addressing content that may violate laws or product policies. They face numerous challenges, including exposure to sensitive content, monotonous tasks, and complex decisions, which are often exacerbated by inadequate tools. This chapter explains the importance of incorporating…

Who Owns The Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Real World through Community Engagement
Minja Axelsson, Jiaee Cheong, Rune Nyrup, Hatice Gunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02624

Who Owns The Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Real World through Community Engagement
Recent studies indicate that robotic coaches can play a crucial role in promoting wellbeing. However, the real-world deployment of wellbeing robots raises numerous ethical and socio-technical questions and concerns. To explore these questions, we undertake a community-centered investigation to examine three different communities' perspectives on using robotic wellbeing coaches in real-world environments. We frame our work as an anticipatory ethical investigation, which we undertake to better in…

The School Of Wellbeing With Meg Durham
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

I wrote "People Manglement: Mental Health in the Workplace"
I've been thinking a lot about what I as a manager can do within our roles to support the mental health of our reports — and that starts with creating a healthy work environment
https://managingin…

People Manglement: Mental Health in the Workplace
As managers, our role is not to be a therapist to our reports, but we play a crucial role in their wellbeing

Very proud to have my research featured in the latest edition of UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi
Read the full piece on how the built environment can support or improve our health and wellbeing:

Designing healthier places | Portico Magazine | UCL
For better or worse, our environments shape us. Now, researchers from UCL’s The Bartlett are uncovering new ways for our built environment to support – and improve – our health and wellbeing.

Over the past decade I’ve truly been struggling with the idea of human-centric design.

Putting people first is a major contributor to the climate crisis.

These days, instead, I make an effort to use the term ’universal wellbeing’.

https://axbom.com/design-for-universal-wellbeing/

Are international happiness rankings reliable?
Christopher P Barrington-Leigh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06867 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06867

Are international happiness rankings reliable?
Global comparisons of wellbeing increasingly rely on survey questions that ask respondents to evaluate their lives, most commonly in the form of "life satisfaction" and "Cantril ladder" items. These measures underpin international rankings such as the World Happiness Report and inform policy initiatives worldwide, yet their comparability has not been established with contemporary global data. Using the Gallup World Poll, Global Flourishing Study, and World Values Survey, I show that the two que…

"In my defense, only three hours on Instagram": Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
Karthik S. Bhat, Jiayue Melissa Shi, Wenxuan Song, Dong Whi Yoo, Koustuv Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21860

"In my defense, only three hours on Instagram": Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
Screen use pervades daily life, shaping work, leisure, and social connections while raising concerns for digital wellbeing. Yet, reducing screen time alone risks oversimplifying technology's role and neglecting its potential for meaningful engagement. We posit self-awareness -- reflecting on one's digital behavior -- as a critical pathway to digital wellbeing. We developed WellScreen, a lightweight probe that scaffolds daily reflection by asking people to estimate and report smartphone use. In …

How could this happen in a country that *checks notes* has made itself entirely beholden to US Big Tech and Big Pharma?
#Ireland

'Outrage' as former tech giant lobbyist appointed to Data Protection Commission 
Privacy experts and digital wellbeing activists say appointment 'reflects a concerning level of disregard for EU law

"How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health"
#Education #Children #Environment

“This is a complete failure of government policy, and a failure of its duty to protect the wellbeing of people seeking sanctuary. People should be housed in communities, not camps.”
Campaigners slam Labour’s ‘cruel’ plan to move asylum-seekers into military camps | Morning Star
https:…

On many platforms, we are no longer the customers, but instead have become the product. Our data, even if anonymised, is sold on to actors we never intended it to reach, who can then target us with content and advertising. This includes deliberately harmful content that leads to real-world violence, spreads misinformation, wreaks havoc on our psychological wellbeing and seeks to undermine social cohesion.
Sir T.B.L.

INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND WELLBEING OF NEW GENERATION
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updated: Friday, September 5, 2025 - 9:15amfull name / name of organization: Global Center for…
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

Susan Eldridge is an unstoppable force when it comes to advocating for mental wellbeing in arts workplaces, and one of the most vulnerable topics in this field is how to give and receive feedback.
Susan tells #CutCommon about the impact of your opinion, and how to make sure it comes from a healthy place, without harming the recipient’s confidence or identity.

'Extremely harmful': Expert has new concern about Trump — and our 'psychological wellbeing' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-michael-bader/

AI Wellbeing
Simon Goldstein, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11913

AI Wellbeing
Under what conditions would an artificially intelligent system have wellbeing? Despite its obvious bearing on the ethics of human interactions with artificial systems, this question has received little attention. Because all major theories of wellbeing hold that an individual's welfare level is partially determined by their mental life, we begin by considering whether artificial systems have mental states. We show that a wide range of theories of mental states, when combined with leading theori…

Well I was going to smoke crack and drunk-drive a motorcycle through the middle of Dublin at 200kph but now that you've texted me I will reconsider

I read this article about inattention while eating my breakfast at work and dropped sardine paté down my top and trousers in the process, the very definition of irony. I usually get quite grubby at work so I got away with it but really.
‘We’re exhausted – but not from doing too much’: can this woman help us survive the age of distraction? | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Geographic Characterisation of Children's Health and Wellbeing through Vulnerability Indices Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and K-Means Clustering
Harriette Phillips, Aiden Price, Kerrie Mengersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14236

Geographic Characterisation of Children's Health and Wellbeing through Vulnerability Indices Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and K-Means Clustering
Using Australian children as a case study, this paper aims to develop vulnerability indices to characterise the health and well-being of children aged 0-5 years old. The indices are used to identify differences in children's health and well-being across geographic regions and identify clusters of regions with similar characteristics. The approach is underpinned by two well-known statistical methods, namely Principal Component Analysis and K-Means Clustering. The identification of these regions …

The pedophiles came out for this one

★ Do you get excited or upset about AWS SCPs, or GCP Org Policies?
★ Do you have experience developing software to solve cloud security challenges?
★ Do you downplay your cloud security knowledge but actually you know a lot of niche oddities of cloud IAM?
★ Do you like working in diverse security teams that care about your wellbeing?
★ Do you want to get paid to work on cloud security for one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world?
I'm hiring a…

Security Software Engineer (L5), Cloud Infrastructure Security | USA - Remote | Netflix
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Netflix operates our streaming service control plane on Amazon Web Services, which has led to one of the largest and most sophisticated AWS environments in the world. C…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Audioasis
Well Being:
🎵 Pleasure Garden (Adapt 2 The Culture Mix)
#WellBeing
https://wellbeing.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-garden
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wQs4KCJvdzPFsG2v3NekD

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
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- Who Owns The Robot?: Four Ethical and Socio-technical Questions about Wellbeing Robots in the Rea...
Minja Axelsson, Jiaee Cheong, Rune Nyrup, Hatice Gunes

The Lift Podcast
Join Lifestyle Medicine expert Dr Darren Morton and psychologist Simon Matthews as they explore key topics about health and wellbeing...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-lift/

Leveraging Familiarity with Television to Enrich Older Adults' Engagement and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study Using Video Probes
Shyama Sastha Krishnamoorthy Srinivasan, Mohan Kumar, Pushpendra Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15618

Leveraging Familiarity with Television to Enrich Older Adults' Engagement and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study Using Video Probes
The shift away from multigenerational families to nuclear families in India has created a growing need to support older adults living independently. While technology can help address this gap, older adults' limited exposure to newer technology restricts the adoption of such solutions. However, they remain comfortable with long-standing technologies like television (TV). This study explores their daily technology usage and challenges, aiming to determine whether TV can be leveraged to improve th…

Large scale statistically validated comorbidity networks
Paride Crisafulli, Tobias Galla, Antti Karlsson, Salvatore Miccich\`e, Jyrki Piilo, Rosario N. Mantegna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09737

Large scale statistically validated comorbidity networks
We obtain comorbidity networks starting from medical information stored in electronic health records collected by the Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland (Varha). Based on the data, we associate each patient to one or more diseases and construct complex comorbidity networks associated with large patient cohorts characterized by an age interval and sex. The information about diseases in electronic health records is coded using the highest granularity present in the international class…

Challenges and Opportunities for Participatory Design of Conversational Agents for Young People's Wellbeing
Natalia Kucirkova, Alexis Hiniker, Megumi Ishikawa, Sho Tsuji, Aayushi Dangol, Robert Wolfe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14787

Challenges and Opportunities for Participatory Design of Conversational Agents for Young People's Wellbeing
This paper outlines the challenges and opportunities of research on conversational agents with children and young people across four countries, exploring the ways AI technologies can support children's well-being across social and cultural contexts.

Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and Relational Theory
Yunhao Yuan, Jiaxun Zhang, Talayeh Aledavood, Renwen Zhang, Koustuv Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22505

Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and Relational Theory
AI-powered companion chatbots (AICCs) such as Replika are increasingly popular, offering empathetic interactions, yet their psychosocial impacts remain unclear. We examined how engaging with AICCs shaped wellbeing and how users perceived these experiences. First, we conducted a large-scale quasi-experimental study of longitudinal Reddit data, applying stratified propensity score matching and Difference-in-Differences regression. Findings revealed mixed effects -- greater affective and grief exp…

How AI Companionship Develops: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Fiona Li, Jacy Reese Anthis, Hayoun Noh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10079 https://…

How AI Companionship Develops: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
The quickly growing popularity of AI companions poses risks to mental health, personal wellbeing, and social relationships. Past work has identified many individual factors that can drive human-companion interaction, but we know little about how these factors interact and evolve over time. In Study 1, we surveyed AI companion users (N = 303) to map the psychological pathway from users' mental models of the agent to parasocial experiences, social interaction, and the psychological impact of AI c…