Psychology of Technology

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-45334-7
Verlag: Springer

Medienkombination, Englisch, MyCopy, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This unique treatise expands on the philosophy of science to argue for a psychology of technology based on our complex relationships with our digital devices, our online lives, and our human experience. Drawing from disciplines ranging from philosophy and evolution to cognitive and neuroscience, it examines myriad aspects of the brain’s creative development: the cognitive, sensory, and motor processes that desire and enable technological progress and its resulting efficiencies, comforts, and pleasures. These pleasures 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—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 and the non-executive functions of our body.
· New directions in brain-computer interface.
· From avatars and agents to virtual reality technology.

· On measuring affective responses to objects.

· Psychology, technology, ethics, and culture.



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 psychologists, social scientists, and behavioral scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kool, V.K.

Agrawal, Rita

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Philosophie der Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie der Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.