WEEK 1
Papers and videos mentioned in the class (All Optional):
- The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
- Bush’s “As We May Think”
- Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis”
- Book Cyborg by Steve Mann
- Book Natural born cyborgs by Andy Clark
- Doug Englebart’s famous article: https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
WEEK 2
Required Readings and Videos:
- Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Memory
- John Gabrieli’s readings (choose one and come up with a couple of questions):
Optional Materials:
Check out this lecture for those of you who need an introduction or refresher on general neuroscience terminology and neuroanatomy, this is a great primer on brain organization and will help structure your questions for Prof. Gabrieli next week.
also if you have time, watch these :
- Black Mirror, The entire history of you (a dystopian view of memory augmentation)
- Alive Inside (Documentary on Music and Dementia)
WEEK 3
Required readings for week 3:
- Security and Privacy Implications of Pervasive Memory Augmentation
- Black Mirror, The entire history of you
- A Head For Detail
- Memory Hackers documentary
- Remembering through lifelogging: a survey of human memory augmentation
- Use GoogleScholar with keywords such as “memory aid” and “memory habilitation” to select and summarize a paper that describes the use of an electronic or mobile/tablet based system for memory augmentation or rehabilitation.
Optional Readings:
- Bell, Gordon (feat.) – Microsoft Researcher Records His Life in Data. WIRED Magazine (link)
- Bell, Gordon – Total Recall (book)
- DeVaul, Richard – The Memory Glasses (link)
- Foer, Joshua – Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (book)
- Madan – Augmented Memory: A survey of the approaches to remembering more (link)
- Maguire, Eleanor – The neuroscience of memory (lecture)
- Pontius, Erin – Exploring Emergent Technology: Memory Augmentation Implants (link)
- Rhodes, Bradley – Remembrance agent (link)
- Wilson , Matt – Reading the Minds of Rats (link)
WEEK 4 (Design Project, No readings)
WEEK 5
Required Readings and Videos:
- Crash Course of Psychology, Consciousness
- Visual Attention and Consciousness
- A Lecture on attention (Szameitat)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Neural Mechanisms of Selective Visual Attention
Optional Readings and Videos:
- Exploring the Crossroads of Attention and Memory in the Aging Brain
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Attention in Artificial Neural Networks
WEEK 6
Required Readings and Videos:
WEEK 7
- Daniel Kahneman links Attention, Memory and Emotion
- Ellen Langer links Attention and Wellbeing
- Dan Ariely bridges Attention, Motivation and Self-Control
Optional Readings and Videos:
- Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Hypnosis as Surgical Analgesia
- Delayed Auditory Feedback app for Stuttering
- Bessel Van Der Kolk: Trauma, Attention and Embodied Cognition
- Halo Neuroscience using tDCS to enhance sports training
- EEG, ERP and Brain Imaging of Meditation
- Meditation Neurofeedback and Mobile Technology
- False Heart-Rate Feedback and Attraction
- False Heart-Rate Feedback and Panic Disorders
- Bose Hearphones improving live listening
- Listening Purely to Audio from Workouts Increases Strength
- Hearglass Hearing Enhancement for full spectrum music and voice
- BrightBeat: Influencing Breath for Cultivating Calmness
- Eye Trackers from Pupil, Jins Meme, iMotions and Tobii
WEEK 8
Attention Project Presentation
WEEK 9
- Pick one of the papers below:
- http://bjpo.rcpsych.org/content/2/1/74 (self-compassion and depression)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465814000496 (self-confidence and paranoia)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep13899 (embodied conversations with the self)
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111933 (self-criticism)
- Effect of Stress on Decision Making
- How Emotions are Made (watch the playlist, 30 mins)
WEEK 10
- EmotionCheck: Leveraging Bodily Signals and False Feedback to Regulate our Emotions ACM DL link
- Pick one of the papers below:
- Lane Beckes: Radically Embodied Social Attachment theory: Oxytocin involved in thermoregulation and pair bonding—feelings of warmth?
- EMDR and PTSD: Bessel Van Der Kolk
- Embodied Cognition and PTSD Bessel Van Der Kolk
- tDCS to reduce effects of stress on working memory
- Rhythm of Breathing (and mouth vs nose intake) affects Fear and Memory
- HRV reveals emotions?
- Wearable AI to detect conversational tone (CSAIL)
- Wearable tech options for stress management
WEEK 11
Final project presentations