Psychology of Technology

Zusatztext

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 brains 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 technologyand, 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 nonexecutive functions of our body. New directions in braincomputer interface. From avatars and agents to virtual reality technology.  A timely lens on a field that will grow in importance as it shapes our existence, Psychology of Technology will be read and discussed by not only psychologists, social scientists, and behavioral scientists, but also by technology designers and developers and those in biotechnology.

Autorenportrait

Rita Agrawal, Ph.D. currently works as Director at the Harish Chandra PG College in Varanasi, India. V. K. Kool, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica.

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