links to files, sites & resources
'RESEARCH-FOCUSSED' LINKS
fieldwork related documents
One-page description about the study (.doc 90kb)
The questionnaire for interested participants (.doc 98kb)
A pdf summary of the study timeline and what happens over the 8 weeks.
Pdf document: Instructions on how to extract metadata from iTunes library.
A list of commonly encountered moods & emotions to help with your diary entries. They are separated into 3 main categories: (+) positive, neutral and (-) negative.
research blog
I have a blog about serendipity and this study on blogspot.
LUDIC LINKS (and maybe not so...)
UBU web a delightful place filled with (treasured) resources from and for the avant garde and the experimental (music, text, film, etc).
For aspiring (digital) Jackson Pollocks out there. Click on the blank screen and create your masterpiece.
We feel Fine: an examplary website that allows you to explore (in 'real time') the vast repostories of emotions & moods that had been published on various bogs on the internet.
Pixel Girl Presents: an eye-candy site for your computer
Customize is another highly recommendation eye-candy store for 'impression management'
Post Secret, a 'darker' blogsite that encourages people to anonymously create a postcard that un-leashes their secret; be it a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveals the darker and untold sides of people.
KEY DEFINITIONS
aesthetic experience
Punctuating our usual continuous stream of everyday experiences, Aesthetic Experiences are memorable, experiences that we notice either as it is unfolding and occuring or retrospectively. It does not need to be positive but it is able to be bracketed out - with a beginning and ending.
