ABSTRACT
Poor health caused by unhealthy lifestyle choices is on the rise and it’s not down to a lack of information. This presentation explores how we can best use what we now about human psychology and motivation to create systems and services that will lead to lasting behaviour change
Patrick W. Jordan
Digital World Research Centre University of Surrey, UK
Good societies are those in which the conditions enable their citizens to have a high standard of wellbeing. Traditionally, the main measures used to quantify a society’s level of wellbeing have been financial measures, in particular ‘standard of living’, which is mainly a measure of people’s income and spending power. More recently, attention has been focused on wider and more far-reaching measures of wellbeing which look at quality of life in a broader sense. A variety of indices for measuring quality of life have been developed, but currently there is little consensus on what the key dimensions are. The Good Society Framework (GSF) is a model which identifies a number of dimensions of quality of life. It is conceived as a comprehensive model of wellbeing incorporating all of the major factors included in the various indices and grouping them into nine dimensions. Which of these dimensions can ergonomics and human factors address?
