• The Brain’s Bonding Chemical: Oxytocin

    The Brain’s Bonding Chemical: Oxytocin

    What makes you feel connected to another person, a team, or even a pet? It’s oxytocin. In this HumanTech podcast episode we talk about the amazing brain chemical that makes you feel loving towards whatever you are with when it gets released. HumanTech is a podcast…

  • Designing For Everyone: A HumanTech Podcast Interview With Patricia Moore

    Designing For Everyone: A HumanTech Podcast Interview With Patricia Moore

    When she was in her 20s Patricia Moore disguised herself as an 80-year old woman documenting how people, places, and things treat the elderly. She has spent her career since then advocating for universal design. She was a fun and interesting guest on our HumanTech…

  • How To Create A Habit Forming Product — Guest Nir Eyal

    How To Create A Habit Forming Product — Guest Nir Eyal

    For this HumanTech podcast episode, Nir Eyal joins us for a conversation about how can you develop products that people can’t stop using. Nir takes the research on classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and habits and rolls it all together and then applies the research to the design of…

  • Quick Review of the Business To Buttons Conference

    Quick Review of the Business To Buttons Conference

    In Stockholm Susan was the opening speaker for the 2016 Business To Buttons Conference and Al Gore was the closing speaker!  We talk about the interesting people we met and the equally interesting talks we heard and saw at the conference. HumanTech is a podcast…

  • The Brain Science of Empathy — Guest Paul Zak

    The Brain Science of Empathy — Guest Paul Zak

    We were thrilled to have Paul Zak on this HumanTech podcast episode, and the conversation ranges from research on human attachments, sex with robots, and virtual reality. You may want to check out Paul’s book, The Moral Molecule: HumanTech is a podcast that explores the…

  • Technology in Education

    Technology in Education

    It’s start of the school year time in the US, so we thought we’d do a podcast episode on technology and education. HumanTech is a podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology. Your hosts Guthrie and Dr. Susan Weinschenk explore how behavioral…

  • The Ethics Of Persuasion — A Conversation with Nathalie Nahai

    The Ethics Of Persuasion — A Conversation with Nathalie Nahai

    For this HumanTech podcast episode, Nathalie Nahai from the UK joins us for a conversation about whether and when it is ethical to use persuasion techniques in our apps and our websites to get people to take certain actions. Listen to the podcast and also check…

  • Making Sense Out Of A Mess — Information Architecture with Guest Abby Covert

    Making Sense Out Of A Mess — Information Architecture with Guest Abby Covert

    How do you make sense out of a mess of stuff? Our guest for this HumanTech podcast episode, Abby Covert, has some interesting ideas about how to do just that. I thought that Information Architecture (IA) was about creating order out of lots of data, but…

  • The Science of Vacations

    The Science of Vacations

    Have you ever gone on a vacation and not enjoyed it as much as you thought you would? In this HumanTech podcast episode we talk about the research on vacations and give you some tips for how to get the most enjoyment out of your time…

  • The Behavioral Science of Elections

    The Behavioral Science of Elections

    What makes for a persuasive campaign and message? In this HumanTech podcast episode we talk about current and past election campaigns, and which persuasive principles work and why. HumanTech is a podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology. Your hosts Guthrie and Dr.…