title: What is Positive Technology and its impact on cyberpsychology.
abstract: The goal of this paper is to introduce and describe the "Positive Technology" approach - the scientific and applied approach to the use of technology for improving the quality of our personal experience through its structuring, augmentation and/or replacement - as a way of framing a suitable object of study in the field of cyberpsychology and human-computer interaction. Specifically, we suggest that it is possible to use technology to influence three specific features of our experience - affective quality, engagement/actualization and connectedness - that serve to promote adaptive behaviors and positive functioning. In this framework, positive technologies are classified according to their effects on a specific feature of personal experience. More, for each level we have identified critical variables that can be manipulated to guide the design and development of positive technologies.
authors.affiliation: Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy. giuseppe.riva@unicatt.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Riva
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003491:Cybernetics / Q000639:trends*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011209:Power, Psychological; D013672:Technology / Q000639:trends*; D014584:User-Computer Interface