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What makes you happy? Mary Czerwinski is performing some research on that very topic.
Czerwinski, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond and manager of the Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment Research Group, is participating on the committee for The H(app)athon Project, a big-data effort to use happiness indicators to harness the power of emerging technologies to help the world measure happiness.
Such indicators already are being used in Bhutan and the United Kingdom to measure the well-being of citizens. The project aims to connect the tools people use to measure themselves with metrics used to measure humanity, beginning March 20 in New York, London, and Tokyo with awareness events featuring presentations, including one in New York by Czerwinski, about the synergies between well-being, emerging technology, and happiness indicators.
