Human Attention in Digital Environments

Claudia Roda is Professor of Computer Science and Global Communication and Director of the Division of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Paris.

'This book offers a timely and well-conceived response to a growing interest in how attention affects computer interaction and the problems this poses for designing systems, making a valuable, well-grounded contribution to this burgeoning area.' Sharon Wood, University of Sussex

• 1. Introduction Claudia Roda; Part I. Concepts: 2. Human attention and its implications for HCI Claudia Roda; 3. The management of visual attention in graphic displays Ronald A. Rensink; 4. Cognitive load theory, attentional processes and optimized learning outcomes in a digital environment Renae Low, Putai Jin and John Sweller; 5. Salience sensitive control, temporal attention and stimulus-rich reactive interfaces Howard Bowman, Li Su, Brad Wyble and Phil J. Barnard; Part II. Theoretical and Software Tools: 6. Attention-aware intelligent embodied agents Benoit Morel and Laurent Ach; 7. Tracking of visual attention and adaptive applications Kari-Jouko Räihä, Aulikki Hyrskykari and Päivi Majaranta; 8. Contextualised attention metadata Hans-Christian Schmitz, Martin Wolpers, Uwe Kirschenmann and Katja Niemann; 9. Modelling attention within a complete cognitive architecture Georgi Stojanov and Andrea Kulakov; Part III. Applications: 10. A display with two depth layers: attentional segregation and declutter Frank Kooi; 11. Attention management for self-regulated learning: AtGentSchool Inge Molenaar, Carla van Boxtel, Peter Sleegers and Claudia Roda; 12. Managing attention in the social web: the AtGentNet approach Thierry Nabeth and Nicolas Maisonneuve.