Week 4: SUBCONSCIOUS INTERFACES & EMBODIED COGNITION
Required Readings :
- Mindless Computing: Designing Technologies to Subtly Influence Behavior
- Minding the Mind (First 4-5 pages, rest are optional)
- Iowa Gambling Task
Optional Readings :
- Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
- Somatic marker hypothesis
- Six views of embodied cognition
- BoostMeUp: Improving Cognitive Performance in the Moment by Unobtrusively Regulating Emotions with a Smartwatch
- Designing Interactions Beyond Conscious Control: A New Model for Wearable Interfaces
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Week 3: ENHANCING REASONING & DECISION MAKING
Required Readings :
- Thinking Fast and Slow (video)
- Visualizing each of the 188 known confirmation biases (on Medium)
- Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence (video)
- Mel Slater: becoming a better person through VR embodiment
Optional Readings :
- Partners in Cognition: Extending Human Intelligence with Intelligent Technologies
- The emotional dog and its rational tail
- The Proteus Effect: Implications of Transformed Digital Self-Representation on Online and Offline Behavior
- Conversations between self and self as Sigmund Freud—A virtual body ownership paradigm for self counselling
- Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias
- Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions
- AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface
Week 2: AUGMENTING ATTENTION & MEMORY
Required Readings :
- How We Make Memories (video)
- Remembering and Forgetting (video)
- Attention | Psychology (video)
Optional Readings :
- Black Mirror, The entire history of you – a dystopian view of memory augmentation – Available on Netflix
- Alive Inside – documentary on music and dementia – Available on Tubi (free)
- NeverMind: Using Augmented Reality for Memorization – Rosello et al. 2016
- The Memory Glasses: Subliminal vs. Overt Memory Support with Imperfect Information – Devaul et al. 2003
- AttentivU: An EEG-Based Closed-Loop Biofeedback System for Real-Time Monitoring and Improvement of Engagement for Personalized Learning – Kosmyna et al. 2019
- Memory editing from science fiction to clinical practice
- The scientists who make apps addictive