Eudaimonia, forging the future of wellbeing

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VIRTUAL WORLDS AND WELLBEING LAB ON A CHIP

FERTILE GROUNDS FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUNNY SOCIAL ROBOTS

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

AN INQUIRY INTO ENERGY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT

EUDAIMONIA

FORGING THE FUTURE OF WELLBEING

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Manon Jurgens Nolina Doud Christian Pauli

Sustainable energy Jerfy ter Bekke

Ana Fernandez Jannis Marinakis Peter Segers

Funny social robots Jan Yme de Boer

Harm Bult Iris Huis in t Veld Verna Jans Lab on a chip

Virtual worlds for wellbeing Chirag Arora

Jurjen Idskes Thijs Slot

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VIRTUAL WORLD AND WELLBEING

VIRTUAL WORLDS AS A TECHNOLOGY

VIRTUAL REALITY HARDWARE TECHNOLOGIES

THE AUTHENTICITY OF VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENC

ACLASSICAL APPROACH TO VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING REALITY POSTPHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO VR EXPERIENCE THEVIEWWPROJECT

WHAT IS WELL-BEING?

PRESENCE IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

VIRTAL WORLDS AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

APPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY

CONCLUSION 52 53 56 59 62 66 71 74 78 80 84 87 90 94 99 INTRODUCTION THE BASICS OF FERTILITY THE GENOME SEMEN LAB ON A CHIP

FROM SOCIETAL PROBLEM TO SCIENTIFIC IDEA

FROM SCIENTIFIC IDEA TO PRODUCT

THE OBJECTIVITY OF SCIENCE

QUANTIFYING THE SELF

ON OUR RIGHT TO PROCREATE

ANTINATALISM

THE SPERM CHIP GAMBLE

NANO SUPERMARKET

THE ETHICS OF FEMALE SPERM

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THE SERIOUSNESS OF LAUGHTER

FUNNY SOCIAL ROBOTS ON THE BIG SCREEN

HUMOROUS THEORIES

THE IMITATION GAME

THE HUMOROUS COMPUTER SCIENTIST

FUNNY,JUST LIKE US

THE VERBAL SIDE OF HUMOUR

SIGNIFICANT DETAILS: EYE GAZE, VOICE PITCH, AND FACIAL MOVEMENTS

THE UNCANNY VALLEY

DETECTING HUMOUR AND HUMOROUS INTENT

THE BEST ROBOT IS A FUNNY ROBOT

IT'S FUNNY, TRUST ME

HUMOUR AND WELLBEING

WE COULD,BUT SHOULD WE?

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INTRODUCTION

CASE PROFILES

APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABILITY

APPROACHES TO WELLBEING

APPROACHES TO HIGH-TECH

GENERATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

SMART GRIDS

SMART HOMES

SMART METERS

HEIDEGGER ON MODERN TECHNOLOGY

APHILOSOPHER'S PERSPECTIVE:

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APOSTPHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON MODERN TECHNOLOGY

GREEN HOUSING POLICIES

SUSTAINABLE MARKETING

WORLDWIDE IMPLEMENTATION

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History, Developments and Applications ofVirtual Worlds

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Head 4 Head Leisure System used in larger arcades, bowling alleys and theme parks around the world

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An examination through tools within Philosophy ofTechnology

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Physical Simulation ofReality

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Heidegger and problems with contemporary experience ofreality

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Understanding Virtual Reality as a mediator ofrelations between Human and the World

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Theoretical Approaches in Philosophy and Psychology

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Bhutan the first country to use happiness as an indicator ofprogress

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The quality of experience as a function ofskill and challenge

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Therapy, Games and Parkinson’s

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The story ofour life

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Mom and Dad Combined

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All Aboard

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"Abnormal results could indicate infertility, but also

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Shrinking laboratories and costs

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In 2012 Loes won the Simon Stevin Gezel Prijs. That award is for very successful just promoted researchers of a STW funded research. The candidate has to be put forward by the project leader, and has to show how the candidate is working hard to valorize the research results.

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Looking at the valorisation from the point ofview ofa business developer

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Valorisation emcompasses all activities that contribute_{to ensuring that the}

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A search for the objective truth in the science offertilization

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"Identity is our mystery. We have no idea who we are – what humans are, and what humans are good for. […] Self-tracking and the Quantified Self movement are contemporary probes into this mystery, part of our feeble attempt to figure out who we are – as individuals and a collective. Quantifying your self is an act of self-assertion. All this attention is not a narcissist adoration of the self, but a self-definition in an age ofgreat uncertainty about who we are.” - QS co-founder Kevin Kelly, 2011

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Philosophy against life

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How Segerink's chip is a nice example ofthe unpredictability ofscience

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Utilitarian and Deontological answers to the ethical questions ofartificial sperm

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Does the lab-on-a-chip fertility test improve the quality oflife?

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What I admire most in others is the irony, the capacity to look from far away and not to take things extremely serious” – Jorge Luis Borges

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Where science has not yet advanced, science fiction movies show the way.

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Humour is epiphanic, it exists in that momentary revelation which lies beyond conventional reasoning, defying its authority and uncovering the evanescent reality ofits own internal logic.” – Professor Evelyn Fishburn

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As we learn more about humour and social robots there will likely be more old theories and insights that can contribute in a fresh, new way.

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There is no need for robots to fool us into thinking whether or not they are human when it comes to humour. They only have be funny, whether or not we think ofthem as human beings.

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Not every slip on a banana peel guarantees humour – Anton Nijholt

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Humour then becomes not only a hedonistic factor, but also a safety factor for both users and robots, and a sign ofsocial intelligence.

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What kind oftree is nauseated? A sick-amore.

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Jokes are only part ofspoken humour.

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ESA - European Space Agency_{Epicurean Space Agency}

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The importance ofunnoticed movements and nods to convey a message.

Nao robots gather facial movement, eye gaze and balanced voice pitch

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Funny social robots may approach the Uncanny Valley in various ways. Not only will they oftentimes look like us, they will move like we do, and even have social interactions the way we do

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The hypothesized emotional response ofa person in reaction to the human likeness ofa robot.

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Natural language processing is one complex way of human-computer interaction

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Siri was one type of software that made

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Taking all aspects together it can be concluded that the pun making Pundalin was seen as a much better chatterbot than its neutral counterpart Modalin

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Small talk and humour have the potential to significantly improve the user’s trust in the robot

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Not only does humour improve psychological wellbeing, it even increases wellbeing on a physical level. One cannot ignore humour when researching and discussing wellbeing

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Ifstress and negative emotions can suppress the immune system, why can’t laughter and feelings of trust and hope promote healing, even prolong life?

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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think ifthey should.

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Feeling like the robot responds to us and even having a few laughs together makes us feel better.

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All the things we take for granted in our daily social interactions are suddenly placed under a microscope as we try to learn more about improving social robots