Ay: Nisan 2018

As a holistic healing treatment, aromatherapy uses aromatic natural plant extracts and essential oils to improve the medical condition of body, mind and spirit. Besides being therapy aromatherapy is a combination of art and science where it has more recognition in the related fields lately.

Long history of aromatherapy

People have been using aromatherapy for thousands of years. Especially in ancient cultures in China, Egypt and India where aromatic components used for medical and religious purposes. Even that time people were aware of the positive effects of aromatherapy on their mental and physical health. 

In the 16th century information about the distillation of essential oil was published in Germany and the distillation method dedicated to the Persians in the 10th century, however; it might have a longer history than the 10th century. In the 19th century, French Physicians found the treatment feature of essential oils. Even though medical doctors focused on chemical drugs in the 19th century, German and French Doctors are more on the natural botanicals in treatments. The term ‘aromatherapy’ was first mentioned by René-Maurice Gatefossé in his book that has published in 1937. The healing potential of lavender in burns was discovered by him also. His book also discusses the usage of essential oils to heal conditions.

People always like listening to stories and love brands which puts human to the centre. 

Human beings have been in the cycle of business and management over the years. The trace of management theory grounds the 1700s but the significant improvements have begun with the 20th century. Thanks to 20th century theorists, we now understood the major part of our managerial practice: ‘How the work can be done in the best way?’ by examining the workflows and individuals behaviour in business life. As one of those theorists, Frederick Winslow Taylor described work in his book ‘Scientific Management’ as “Several simple actions which consist routine and need some motivation.”

The magic word: Intrinsic Motivation

According to Taylor, employees should be rewarded by employers for their growing efficiency rather than being punished for small mistakes. The time when people trapped in a motivational way besides reward and punishing system, a third need arose which is intrinsic motivation. The meaning of intrinsic motivation can be summarized asengaging in behaviour because of self rewarding not for an external reward. In other words, the motivations that arise within the individual because it satisfies the person naturally. 

Human-centred approaches such as intrinsic motivation and gamification, increase the flow of users by increasing their loyalty, and long standing experiences rather than extrinsic motivation.When people are intrinsically motivated, they act not for prizes but for a sublime purpose, fun and challenge.

Before starting to create ideas and setting the rewards, we need to focus on spending some time to gamification in the system to find the most suitable approach. Human-centric design constructs the base of every gamification projects to understand the effects of the project to humankind.  The human-centric approach became popular at the beginning of the 2010s, a model that acknowledges people more closely and customizing this experience. In July 2010, a group of kids trapped in a cave because of the increased water level. To rescue those kids, Elon Musk designed a little submarine and sent them. Even though it has great technological advancements, Musk’s submarine was not capable of rescuing those kids, because it wasn’t designed in a human-centric approach which the rescue team found it useless. It can interpret that human-centric design is not using the latest technology but designing according to human beings.