1) Soh Yong Jin [Male] 27

Qn: Are you happy with your life now?

Ans: Quite alright.

Qn: When is the happiest moment of your life?

Ans: Is when i cherish every single day.

Qn: What cheers you up when you are feeling down /  sad?

Ans: By looking at the bright side

Qn: What does the definition of happiness mean to you?

Ans: Depends what you want in like. Work on it. And you will get it.

2) Desmond Ang [male] 23

Qn: Are you happy with your life now?

Ans: Errr, Depends. Quite happy right now.

Qn: When is the happiest moment of your life?

Ans: When family and friends come together. Enjoy the moment.

Qn: What cheers you up when you are feeling down /  sad?

Ans: Having friends around you. Saying jokes, chilling around. Friends gathering.

Qn: What does the definition of happiness mean to you?

Ans: Marriage. searching the right one and gain it yourself.

Qn: How do you define digital happiness.

Ans: Games, laughter upon friends comments in facebook.

Qn: Do you think laughter is happiness?

Ans: Of course. 

Qn: When is the happiest moment of your life?

Ans: When i’ve got my salary.

Qn: What cheers you up when you are feeling down /  sad?

Ans: Sleep. Sleep and forget.

Qn: What does the definition of happiness mean to you?

Ans: Finding a girlfriend.

Qn: How do you define digital happiness.

Ans: None

4) Lilian [female] 36

Qn: Are you happy with your life now?

Ans: Ok. Now still ok. I don’t know how will i feel later.

Qn: When is the happiest moment of your life?

Ans: Spending time with the loved ones.

Qn: What cheers you up when you are feeling down /  sad?

Ans: Spending time with my friends. Not being alone. 

Qn: What does the definition of happiness mean to you?

Ans: With someone you can be with. Companionship.

Qn: How do you define digital happiness.

Ans: Having connection with people. Like MSN.

Qn: Do you think you can make people happy?

Qn: Are you happy with your life now?

Ans: Ok ok lah.

Qn: When is the happiest moment of your life?

Ans: Gathering with friends.

Qn: What cheers you up when you are feeling down /  sad?

Ans: When friends text you or call you suddenly. Freinds facebook comments or posting on the wall.

Qn: What does the definition of happiness mean to you?

Ans: There is nothing in life you worry about.

Qn: How do you define digital happiness.

Ans: Not alot.

Qn: Do you think you can make people happy?

Qn: Are you happy with your life now?

Ans: Ya

Qn: When is the happiest moment of your life?

Ans: Being graduated from university.

Qn: What cheers you up when you are feeling down /  sad?

Ans: Connecting to god.

Qn: What does the definition of happiness mean to you?

Ans: Being contented in life and being who you are.

Qn: How do you define digital happiness.

Ans: Easy access to the internet and getting to know so much in the world. Ex: News on the internet. 

Qn: Do you think you can make people happy?

My re-defined input.

I have decided to make life easier for the mouse users in the messenger application. So to let the user feel that the mouse is important to them. As the mouse can have many functions till the user feel that without those functions, the user will feel lost, uneasy and they will feel the importance of it. And in order to show it in a way as a website and let the user feel the importance of the mouse more. i have put them together with my previous idea. The mouse-less navigation. Which the user will have to use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the cursor.

This is my first page of my website site. Which the user must place the cursor into the circle with the help of the mouse first.

This page will pop out after the cursor has been place into the cursor. Which is the instruction page on how to navigate the website.

After reading the instructions, the user will have to move the cursor (with the help of the mouse) to the circle. And the home page will be shown next.

It will be shown like the above picture. A small instruction page clearly shown on how to navigate the web. Before the user start to use the web unknowingly.

This is the home page after the user read the instructions. 

Why i choose to names those balls “pick me” because the user will be more curious about each balls and what are the contents in those balls. So they will play with the interactivity more.

This will be one of the content in the ball. There is a activity in this page. The information will be in different angel rotated pieces. So the user will have to rotate them and fix the puzzle in order to read the information.

The below image will be the introduction to the re-defined mouse.

The user will have to put the cursor into the blue circle to see more details.

The idea of my new re-define mouse is a shortcut click for messenger. It can be personalise. Like two middle click, it will auto send “haha” in the chat windows. three middle click, it will auto send “LOL”. Right & left click will be click once it will pop out a change display picture window. If you click hold on for 5 secs, it will pop out the preferences setting page. 

The below image will show how it will appear in the msn windows.

The user also can type in their password by rolling the middle click button like a locker. Roll to the number or alphabet.

This is the preferences setting page after the click & hold.

This is the change display picture page after the click.

This is the auto message send after the 2 middle click.

THE END!

My 1 main n 3 sub pages for fun Ixd. 

sub page

main page

Conclusions

Bodily Responses to Music

People perceive and respond to music in different ways. The level of musicianship of the performer and the listener as well as the manner in which a piece is performed affects the “experience” of music. An experienced and accomplished musician might hear and feel a piece of music in a totally different way than a non-musician or beginner. This is why two accounts of the same piece of music can contradict themselves.

Rhythm is also an important aspect of music to study when looking at responses to music. There are two responses to rhythm. These responses are hard to separate because they are related, and one of these responses cannot exist without the other. These responses are (1) the actual hearing of the rhythm and (2) the physical response to the rhythm. Rhythm organizes physical movements and is very much related to the human body. For example, the body contains rhythms in the heartbeat, while walking, during breathing, etc. Another example of how rhythm orders movement is an autistic boy who could not tie his shoes. He learned how on the second try when the task of tying his shoes was put to a song. The rhythm helped organize his physical movements in time.

It cannot be proven that two people can feel the exact same thing from hearing a piece of music. For example, early missionaries to Africa thought that the nationals had bad rhythm. The missionaries said that when the nationals played on their drums it sounded like they were not beating in time. However, it was later discovered that the nationals were beating out complex polyrhythmic beats such as 2 against 3, 3 against 4, and 2 against 3 and 5, etc. These beats were too advanced for the missionaries to follow.

Responses to music are easy to be detected in the human body. Classical music from the baroque period causes the heart beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily. Furthermore, baroque music decreases blood pressure and enhances the ability to learn. Music affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, which can be measured by an electro-encephalogram. Music also affects breathing rate and electrical resistance of the skin. It has been observed to cause the pupils to dilate, increase blood pressure, and increase the heart rate.

I didnt know that hearing can help you get good grades!!  And it help you remember stuff better too!! =)

The Power of Music on Memory and Learning

The power of music to affect memory is quite intriguing. Mozart’s music and baroque music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activate the left and right brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, causes the brain to be more capable of processing information.

In 1982, researchers from the University of North Texas performed a three-way test on postgraduate students to see if music could help in memorizing vocabulary words. The students were divided into three groups. Each group was given three tests - a pretest, a posttest, and a test a week after the first two tests. All of the tests were identical. Group 1 was read the words with Handel’s Water Music in the background. They were also asked to imagine the words. Group 2 was read the same words also with Handel’s Water Music in the background. Group 2 was not asked to imagine the words. Group 3 was only read the words, was not given any background music, and was also not asked to imagine the words. The results from the first two tests showed that groups 1 and 2 had much better scores than group 3. The results from the third test, a week later, showed that group 1 performed much better than groups 2 or 3. However, simply using music while learning does not absolutely guarantee recall but can possibly improve it. Background music in itself is not a part of the learning process, but it does enter into memory along with the information learned. Recall is better when the same music used for learning is used during recall. Also, tempo appears to be a key of music’s effect on memory. 

One simple way students can improve test scores is by listening to certain types of music such as Mozart’s Sonata for Two Piano’s in D Major before taking a test. This type of music releases neurons in the brain which help the body to relax. The effectiveness of Mozart’s sonatas can be seen by the results from an IQ test performed on three groups of college students. The first group listened to a Mozart sonata before taking the test. The second group listened to a relaxation tape before their test. The third group did not listen to anything before the test. The first group had the highest score with an average of 119. The second group ended up with an average of 111, and the third group had the lowest score with an average of 110.

William Balach, Kelly Bowman, and Lauri Mohler, all from Pennsylvania State University, studied the effects of music genre and tempo on memory retention. They had four groups learn vocabulary words using one of four instrumental pieces - slow classical, slow jazz, fast classical, and fast jazz. Each of the four groups was divided into smaller groups for the recall test. These sub groups used either the same (i.e. slow classical, slow classical) or different (i.e. slow jazz, fast classical) pieces when taking the recall test. The results did show a dependency on the music. Recall was better when the music was the same during learning and testing. These same researchers did another test which restricted the changes in the music to just tempo (i.e. slow to fast jazz) or just genre (i.e. slow jazz to slow classical). Surprisingly, the results showed that changing the genre had no effect on recall but changing the tempo decreased recall.

my mood board for fun ixd

Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

This video tells me that the whole world is connected. I may not know people in other counties. But we are some how connected. Social network to me is like spreading message or information around us. Is a important thing to us. He explained networks as if they are flat. In reality they are not. Some people have more influence than others. Just like facebook. It do influence people to do certain things in facebook. like games, quizzes and many more. well, is not a bad thing. social networking can know more friends, share stuff and ideas among each other.

Question 1

The mouse is significant because :

• Without the mouse, the cursor will nv move and the computer will nv work at all.
• It links you with the computer.
• It interact with you. 
• It helps to get where you want to go in the internet or computers.
• It is important to every computer users.

Question 2

• Who invented the first mouse?

Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the wheel-based mouse in 1963. The first ball-based mouse was invented by Bill English at Xerox PARC in 1972.

• When was it invented?

Wheel-based was in 1963. Ball-based was in 1972.

• Where do people use this invention at that time?

During that time only trained scientists could work with a computer and knew how to use it. They used to work on huge computers that had the size of a room and belonged to a very small group of people, usually scientists.

• Why was the mouse invented?

Douglas Engelbart had a vision of an interface between man and machine providing instant connection and communication. He wanted a better way to point and click on a screen.

• What was people’s reaction toward this invention?

Although Douglas Engelbart invented the first mouse 1n 1964, it was not adapted for general use until the 1980s, when Apple Computers was the first company to put them with their computers.

• How does the first mouse look like?