From 3c3ce0ba28978b9fe2feca574d3e25057c479c78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jaap Marsman Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 09:23:39 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] drafted psychological principles --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 37c96e9..ec2efb2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ This app is being developed, researched and released using the following guiding 3. **Free, Open Source**: Inspired by the likes of the NOBA project, the Linux community and countless other highly successful Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) projects out there, my aim is to offer a wide-ranging wellbeing tool available for free to anyone who seeks to use this. The only exception may be future iOS versions, due to the requirement for a paid Developer account with Apple. Even then, this version will be available for a fixed cost, not based on a subscription model. 4. **Potentially informing my own research**: This guiding principle may develop into something cohesive or fall away completely. I am currently a student at Glasgow University, completing my Master's in Science in Psychology (online conversion). Depending on how successful I am with developing this project, I may end up designing a research project around it to inform my dissertation / thesis. This is an idea I'm toying with. If this pans out, the research project will run separate from this app, but I will seek volunteers to gather anonymous usage data from. I will not build *any* telemetry into this app. Ever. Any sampling and data collection will run through a separate platform (something like LimeSurvey or SurveyMonkey). +## Psychological Principles and Criteria (rough draft) + +Perhaps equally as important here are the psychological principles guiding decisions around what to include in this app. + +1. Research-informed. Define what this means. +2. Definition of wellbeing. Not as a state or fixed endpoint. But similar to work life balance, as something we must always strive to maintain. +3. The concept of a psychologically rich life, as defined by … + ## Development Journals My aim is to write a development journal (or potentially record one on YouTube now and again) whenever I have something meaningful to say. For example, questions like "Why Godot?" or "C# and GDScript? Tell us more..." are questions I will aim to answer there.