Audience

This networking session aims at reaching out to:

• Researchers interested in the support of human attentional processes from a wide variety of perspectives including, but not limited to, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, pedagogy, organizational behaviour, and human computer interaction.
• Representatives of end-user groups including: knowledge workers, teachers, people with attention related disabilities and the medical staff that assists them, the older users.
• Designers of systems that would most benefit from supporting user attention. These include domains where:
  • attentional switches are very often solicited, e.g. virtual communities, computer supported cooperative work, mobile and location-aware applications;
  • the users’ lack of experience with the environment makes it harder for them to select the appropriate attentional focus, e.g. online educational systems;
  • an inappropriate selection of attentional focus may cause serious damage to the system, its users, or third parties, e.g. life-critical systems, in-car guidance, in-flight systems;
  • the very reason for the system to exist is to attract the user attention, e,g, entertainment, advertising.

  Designers of systems for the support of diagnosis or therapy of attention related disorders would also be possible stakeholders addressed by the session.

As it should appear from the proposed schedule, this session aims at reaching out to a wide audience bringing together experts from a wide variety of disciplines, working in the context of different types of projects and initiatives, both in academy and industry, and in several different European countries.