Technology is drastically changing the way we perceive the world and how we process information. It increasingly defines how we manage our attention reserves, how we learn and remember, and often has a disruptive nature when devices, such as smartphones, wearables, ambient displays and soon IoT devices, compete for our attention. This book aims to integrate the research efforts, results, and visions of fields, such as Computer Science and Psychology, to provide a comprehensive overview of how modern technologies could assist and augment human perception, cognition, and memory. In light of current challenges of our knowledge society, such as information overload and lifelong learning, the book serves as a foundation for students, researchers, and designers of mobile and wearable technologies.
The book covers five main parts:
This book will be published in the Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series.
HCI researchers and practitioners are invited to suggest chapters on the following suggested (but not limited) topics and questions:
For contributing to this edited book, please send a one-page abstract (~500 words) of your chapter together with the authors' names and affiliations, and the email of the corresponding author to: springer@tilmanification.com. Submissions should contain some previously unpublished elements and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The deadline for abstract submissions is 01.09.2018 but early submissions are encouraged.
Tilman Dingler is a researcher and technologist interested in cognitive augmentations through Pervasive Computing to improve information processing, memory, and decision making. He is a Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.
Evangelos Niforatos holds a Ph.D. degree on Human Memory Augmentation with Context from Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. He is currently working as an HCI scientist on extending human capacities beyond the humanly possible in the advanced R&D sector of Thalmic Labs in Kitchener, Canada.