Mappiness今天正式上线，这个来自英国的iPhone应用程序能够“记录幸福”。通过应用程序，用户可以描绘出他们一天的感受（在这种情况下，幸福程度显然是由用户定义的）。

据首席研究员George MacKerron称，通过定位服务，程序将用户的回应和回应地址连接到环境数据，使得程序能够“更好地找到关乎于个人和国家福祉的影响大自然和谐和环境问题的因素。”

有着伦敦政治经济学院专业背景的MacKerron详细说明了关于跟踪记录幸福度的想法，“19世纪的经济学者设想制作一个测度快乐程度的‘幸福仪’，而心理学家则更多地在进行小规模的‘经验取样’，研究人的情绪如何受活动和时间的影响。”

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Mappiness是第一个在同类应用中可以添加地点的项目。因为iPhone允许用户将技术带在身边，研究人员现在可以随机的抽取一部分他们的测试对象发出问题，询问他们的“幸福程度”、“轻松程度”和“清醒程度”等。程序同样有着一个上传照片的选项，可以对研究提供很好的帮助。

你可以在这里找到所有Mappiness的数据，包括检索图、英国最幸福的地点的照片地图和即时的幸福程度。

更多的应用功能正在计划中，例如用户可以下载所有自己的数据和Google Earth文件夹。研究人员已经吸引了533个新成员参加这个项目，并且争取达到3000人。然而非英国的iPhone使用者可能无法使用“标记”功能，不过他们依然可以记录自己的情绪起伏。此应用的美国版本目前正在准备阶段。

“这些问题是关于你‘此时’和总体上的感受——人们如何记住幸福和如何真实的体验它是两件完全不同的事儿。”MacKerron说。

现在，有了iPhone的新应用，我们也许能更好的把握人类幸福的习惯。(译者：杨雅)

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Mappiness iPhone App Maps Happiness (Say That Three Times Fast)

Officially launching today is Mappiness, a UK iPhone app that “maps Happiness” by pinging users with a survey in order to plot out their feelings during the day (happiness, in this case, is apparently user-defined).

Using LBS, the app links responses and response locations to environmental data in an attempt to, according to lead researcher George MacKerron, “better find answers on the impacts of natural beauty and environmental problems on individual and national well being.”

MacKerron, based at the London School Economics, elaborated on the idea of tracking happiness, “In the 19th century economists imagined a ‘hedonometer,’ a perfect happiness gauge, and psychologists have more recently run small scale ‘experience sampling’ studies to see how mood varies with activity, time of day and so on.”

Mappiness is the first project of its kind to add location to the mix. Because the iPhone allows users to carry the technology with them, researchers can now randomly hit test subjects up with questions like how ‘happy,’ how ‘relaxed’ and how ‘awake’ they feel on a sliding scale. There is also the option of uploading photos, which is pretty nifty for a research study.

You can find all the Mappiness data in aggregate here including a happiness index chart, and a photo-map of the happiest locations in the UK, as well as real-time happiness meters.

Future app features such as users having the ability to download all their own data as spreadsheets and Google Earth files are also planned. Researchers have already recruited 533 people to the project and are shooting for 3000 ideally. And while non-UK iPhone owners might be left out of the mapping part, the app will still chart your personal happiness fluctuations. And a US-based app may be in the works。

Says MacKerron, “The question is about how you feel ‘nowadays’ and in general — and how people remember their happiness, and how they actually experience it, are two quite different things.”

Now, thanks to the iPhone, we might get a better grasp on humanity’s happiness habits.(source:techcrunch)