Homo Informatics: Health, Cognition and Social Issues of Human-Computer-Interaction
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2020) | Viewed by 209
Special Issue Editor
Interests: public health; health psychology; environmental psychology; motivation; emotion; cognition; attention; human factors; psychophysiology; mind–brain interaction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Most people spend a lot of time using smartphones or other mobile devices, voice assistant devices, and other integrated devices or computers. Through this use, a huge amount of information is delivered as well as accessed by the user. Such human–computer interaction (HCI) may lead to diverse effects on humans, from the babies to the elderly, and shape their personality, cognition, motivation, well-being, social issues, and health, both in users and providers (homo informaticus).
When using social media, search engines, and numerous applications (apps; like those for shopping, streaming, dating, gaming, etc.), information is exchanged in various specific formats of representation and through specific routines; however, information is perceived mainly visually via a screen and aurally, and the human response is almost always just a key stroke or a mouse click. Furthermore, these activities are often performed over long periods of time during the day and night without integration in natural environments, with no body motion involvement, and with no face-to-face social life. To date, there is puzzling evidence suggesting that HCI (including all kinds of online activity) may shape human information processing (attention, perception, sense of reality, memory, thinking, intelligence), affect social aspects (accumulation of power, monitoring computers and networks, surveillance, privacy, social control, technophobia, communication style, hate), affect educational aspects (reading, learning, sensory integration, physical education, gaming), and lead to health problems (stress, depression, addiction, sleeping disorders, muscular pain, motor coordination). Further hot topics are the distribution and usage patterns of internet (HCI) usage in children and groups with special interests, as well as psychological and health HCI effects.
To figure out how HCI affects psychological issues and health aspects, any research of HCI (including all kind of online activity)—preferably suggesting causal effects—including positive perspectives or the prevention of harmful effects is welcome in the Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Michael Trimmel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Internet usage
- Big Data
- Health management
- Cognitive ergonomics in HCI
- Privacy
- Social control
- Motivation
- Well-being
- Technostress
- Public health
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