PyDiff - 17th January 2017 - Martin Chorley - Python and Psychology
Channel: PyDiff Cardiff's Python Meetup
Date: 2017-03-01

A topic of interest within the MoBiSoc research team at Cardiff is how human psychology relates to the way we interact with computer systems, and how psychological principles can be used within those systems. In the last few years we’ve built a couple of experiments based on Django to investigate these areas, and invited people to submit themselves for examination. In this talk I’ll explain the sorts of things we’ve done, how we did them and what we found, including: if you want to spread propaganda on Twitter, target people via the users they already know, and if you want to hang around with a bunch of open and conscientious but slightly neurotic individuals, maybe come visit the School of Computer Science & Informatics.