‘Show Me What Makes You Happy at Work’:

Abstract

How can we capture happiness to analyse the complex experience in order to really understand the phenomena? This chapter discusses the benefits and challenges of visualizing happiness, based on research on workplace happiness among young professionals. It explains how photos and narratives together can create a synergy which can inform our understandings of happiness and fill the gaps left by quantitative methods, hence providing new insights into happiness. Visual approaches can also be a useful method to capture and reflect on a range of emotions such as safety, fear and trust.