Overview
A well-organized, integrated and comprehensive text
Provides a working definition of technology
Explains the basics of technology, and especially, psychology as a science
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- psychology of technology
- philosophy of technology
- area restricted search
- cognitive foraging
- behavior in virtual reality
- effects of texting
- anthropometrics
- applied anthrometrics
- technology on the 21st century
- motor behavior and motor control
- sensory and perceptual processes
- visual displays
- auditory displays
About this book
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.<
- 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 not only psychologists, social scientists, and behavioral scientists, but also by technology designers and developers and those in biotechnology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
V. K. Kool, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychology of Technology
Authors: V.K. Kool, Rita Agrawal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45333-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45332-3Published: 02 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83270-8Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45333-0Published: 23 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 384
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, General Psychology