We are designing a new era of technology that is no longer oblivious to our human need for care and protection.
The mission of The Compassion Innovation Lab is to inform, design, support and share about people, resources and projects where tools have a stake in our lives: compassion-informed technology. Compassion-informed technologies embed the advances of compassion science and common sense of care into new and old technologies, including decision making, media, robot companions,video games, metaweb, etc. as well as into
There is something exciting happening in technology - people are infusing technology with compassion science. We highlight some of the most noteworthy projects here, to give you an example of the different ways positivity, care and compassion are being integrated into technology design. In addition to compassion science, there are also many new insights and much human history that show how fundamental and vital positivity, kindness and care are to our economic, survival and social intelligence. And what happens to us, as individuals and as a group, when these positive traits are absent. This includes an ocean of new discoveries in medical sciences (neuro, immune, cardio, gut, etc.) measuring the impact of positive emotion as described in the books, Compassionomics and The Emotion Organon. Members of the Compassion Innovation Lab share the goal to increase human potential in healing, life and work, through the biological power of compassion science. The power of kindness and positivity make everything easier and we are wired for it. We benefit not only when we give or receive compassion, but when we witness it. That means, its contagious.
The Compassion Science Channel:A collection of short, informative videos highlighting the new science and common sense of compassion.
Collecting hundreds of genuine smiles to create an immersive booth.
Social collaboration innovation lab - behaviors that increase daily compassionate actions increase collaboration and innovation.
Neurophysiology and the Sound of Compassion: A device to support the recovery of stress and trauma with unique real time view of our nervous system. Neuropsychologists have shown that compassion has unique sound qualities that impact our nerves in unique ways. Therapists can observe their clients nervous system and patients experience benefits during telehealth sessions for trauma stress recovery
Physician scientists weigh the costs and benefits of compassionate healthcare environments and find tremendous decrease in costs as well as improved patient outcomes and staff resilience and happiness. Hint: compassion only takes 40 seconds. After the COVID-19 pandemic, this knowledge couldn't be more important.
Compassion is the basis for cooperative relationships. If you need a reason to change your world from competitive to cooperative, This book contains the mathematics that show it pays off: cooperation beats competition in many business and social situations.
Creating a textbook for programmers and designers to infuse technology with human compassion.
Bringing positive transformation to start-ups.
Game theory and common sense for why cooperation is better than competition.
Experimental tree farming technology.
