Psychology of technology 1st ed.

Author

• Kool, V.K.

Additional Author(s)

• Agrawal, Rita

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017

Language

English

ISBN

9783319453330

Series

Subject(s)

• CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
• HUMAN ENGINEERING
• TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS--PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

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Abstract

This unique treatise expands on the philosophy of technology to argue for a psychology of technology based on the complex relationships between psychology, biology and technology, especially in the light of our relationships with our digital devices, our online lives, and our human experience. Drawing from disciplines ranging from philosophy and evolution to cognition and neuroscience, it examines myriad aspects of the brain's creative development: the cognitive, sensory, and motor processes that enable technological progress and its resulting efficiencies and deficiencies along with our discomforts and pleasures. These experiences are key to behavioral and affective processes in technology, manifest in such diverse phenomena as multitasking, the shift in tech design from ergonomics to hedonomics, and the many types of online problem behaviors. Through these rich pages, readers can understand more deeply the history and future of human adjustment and adaptation in an environment intertwined with technology—and, with the ascendance of video games and virtual reality, new conceptions of the human self. Among the topics covered: Could we have remained a tech-devoid society?Technology, ergonomics and the non-executive functions of our body.New directions in brain-computer interface.From avatars and agents to virtual reality technology.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxiv, 384 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

The emerging nature of psychology of technology
Technology, psychology and evolution
Technology and sensory, perceptual and cognitive processes
Technology and motor behavior: the Cinderella of modern psychology
Behavior in the virtual environment
Technology and Hedonism
Psychology of Technology in the 21st Century

Exemplar(s)

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