Essays about: "applied psychology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 100 essays containing the words applied psychology.

  1. 1. Incorporating Environmental Psychology in Architectural Design Processes : creation of a Translation Tool based on Affordances

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : My Gutke Lunsjö; [2024]
    Keywords : Environmental Psychology; Architectural Design; Tool Development; Affordances; Research Implementation; Applied Research;

    Abstract : Considering the enormous investment society makes in developing and shaping the built environment, and the huge impacts that buildings have on people’s health and well-being, there is an urgent need to better understand how to design buildings for human welfare. In the realm of architectural practice, designers are increasingly met with demands to present evidence of how their designs perform from a user perspective. READ MORE

  3. 2. Improving player experience using Flow in Tower Defense game Daidala : A case study on improving Flow according to Sweetser & Wyeth's GameFlow criteria

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Mario Palleschi; Isak Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Flow; GameFlow; Quality Assurance; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Research through Design;

    Abstract : Using a Research through Design approach, this research aims to utilize the criteria of Flow outlined by Csikszentmihályi in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (2014) and later adapted to videogames by Sweetser & Wyeth in GameFlow: a model for evaluating player enjoyment in games (2005) to improve the Tower Defense game Daidala by increasing players’ time spent in a state of Flow. This serves to provide future game designers with an example of how this model and these concepts can be applied when designing and developing a game. READ MORE

  4. 3. ''The string between our lives''. The healing power of a cello’s music in The Cellist of Sarajevo.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för litteraturvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Dominika Pizon; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The essay is an analysis of the intermediality of literature and music with an emphasis on music psychology and the poetic and cultural representations of the cello. The research is applied on Steven Galloway's ''The Cellist of Sarajevo'', in order to interpret the characters' experience of music and examine its therapeutic value... READ MORE

  5. 4. Judgment and Data-Driven Decision Making : A scoping meta-review and bibliometric analysis of the implementations of data-driven approaches to judgment and decision making and across other fields of research

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för psykologi (PSY)

    Author : Natalie Hyltse; [2023]
    Keywords : scoping review; meta-review; bibliometrics; interdisciplinary research; judgment and decision making JDM ; data-driven decision making DDDM ;

    Abstract : Data-driven approaches to decision making are today applied far and wide. With origins in the field of judgment and decision making (JDM), data-driven decision making (DDDM) has become an emergent topic within I-O psychology, especially within the fields of people analytics and human resource analytics. READ MORE

  6. 5. Den återhämtningskvalitativa modellen : ett analysverktyg med syfte att synliggöra restorativa värden i landskapet

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Emma Granell; [2023]
    Keywords : restorativa värden; landskapsplanering; Trafikverkets planeringsprocess; återhämtningskvalitet; landskap för mental hälsa;

    Abstract : Examensarbetets syfte är att skapa en modell som kan användas vid landskapsplanering för att identifiera restorativa naturliga vardagslandskap. Modellen ska vara förankrad i forskning och ska av yrkesverksamma vara lättanvänd i praktiken. READ MORE