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Editorial: Positive Technology: Designing E-experiences for Positive Change

Andrea GaggioliAndrea GaggioliDaniela VillaniSilvia SerinoRosa BanosRosa BanosCristina BotellaCristina Botella

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positive technologyTechnologyWestern media outletsuser experience (UX)positive psychologylcsh:BF1-990positive emotionsOrwellian scenariosImpacts of technologieshuman-computer interaction; positive emotions; positive psychology; positive technology; user experience (UX)Editoriallcsh:Psychologyhuman-computer interactionPsychologySettore M-PSI/01 - PSICOLOGIA GENERALEPositive psychologyPositive emotionM-PSI/01 - PSICOLOGIA GENERALEPsychologySocial psychologyGeneral PsychologyDigital life

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While there is little doubt that our lives are becoming increasingly digital, whether this change is for the better or for the worse is far from being settled. Rather, over the past years concerns about the personal and social impacts of technologies have been growing, fueled by dystopian Orwellian scenarios that almost on daily basis are generously dispensed by major Western media outlets. According to a recent poll involving some 1,150 experts, 47% of respondents predict that individuals’ well-being will bemore helped than harmed by digital life in the next decade, while 32% say people’s well-being will bemore harmed than helped. Only 21% of those surveyed indicated that the impact of technologies on people well-being will be negligible compared to now (Pew Research Center, 2018).

10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01571