{"id":100,"date":"2017-11-28T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariusgursu.wordpress.com\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=100"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:27:32","slug":"does-calling-more-often-lead-to-a-better-sense-of-social-connectedness","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/does-calling-more-often-lead-to-a-better-sense-of-social-connectedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Calling More Often Lead to a Better Sense of Social Connectedness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Pre-Master Research Project <br><strong>Dates:<\/strong> February &#8211; June 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Team:<\/strong> Janna van Rosmalen, Maximillian Morres, Marius Ursu  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Young adults turn towards different forms of digital communication, trying to meet their desire for social contact, belonging and connectedness. A part of the young adult population has an unfulfilled need for better quality of contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research project studied whether more awareness regarding a friend&#8217;s availability would lead to more calls, and as a consequence, to a better sense of social connectedness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/H--WMlxPufg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">The design took form of a self-balancing interior design accessory that works in the periphery of attention. It allowed the 2 friends to see the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">phone call<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> availability of their friend at a glance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The findings confirmed the main premise in more than 3 out of 6 subjects, while the strongest effect was observed in those people who believed they had a need for more social connectedness.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Below you can find the hierarchy of hypotheses that lead to the final research goal:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">\n<\/p><p lang=\"en-GB\">\n<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/mariusgursu.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/hypothesis-hierarchy.png\" alt=\"hypothesis hierarchy\" width=\"1182\" height=\"930\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><em><strong>Update January 2020:<\/strong><br>See this great study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happinessresearchinstitute.com\/publications\">&#8220;Happiness Research Institute&#8221;<\/a> for even more quantitative research<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/norden.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1328300\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mariusgursu.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/sorting-social-media.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"643\"\/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/norden.diva-portal.org\/smash\/get\/diva2:1328300\/FULLTEXT01.pdf\">Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Pre-Master Research Project Dates: February &#8211; June 2017 Team: Janna van Rosmalen, Maximillian Morres, Marius Ursu Young adults turn towards different forms of digital communication, trying to meet their desire for social contact, belonging and connectedness. A part of the young adult population has an unfulfilled need for better quality of contact. The research&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/does-calling-more-often-lead-to-a-better-sense-of-social-connectedness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Calling More Often Lead to a Better Sense of Social Connectedness?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/100\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariusursu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}