Week 12: SUMMARY: REFLECTION, ETHICS & PHENOMENOLOGY
Pick any of the following, rest are optional:
- Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers
- An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the embodiment of artificial limbs
- Next steps for Human-Computer Integration
Week 10: BIOLOGICAL AND MOTOR AUGMENTATION
Required Readings:
Optional Readings:
- World’s Largest Exoskeleton Racing Mech
- Towards understanding the design of bodily integration
- Living bits: Opportunities and challenges for integrating living microorganisms in human-computer interaction
Week 9: BCIs as HCIs
Required Readings:
- The disappearing human-machine divide
- Human Brain Mapping and Decoding
- Neurotechnologies for Human Cognitive Augmentation (Sections 1-4)
Optional Readings:
- Brain Augmentation, Facts, Fiction and Controversy
- Brain Computer Interfaces, Beyond Medical Applications
- A Conceptual Space for EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces
- The Brain Computer Interface Cycle
- EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance
- Designing Implicit Interfaces for Physiological Computing: Guidelines and Lessons Learned Using fNIRS
Week 8: SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION
Required Readings:
- Biosignals as Social Cues: Ambiguity and Emotional Interpretation in Social Displays of Skin Conductance
- Exploratory study examining the at-home feasibility of a wearable tool for social-affective learning in children with autism
Optional Readings:
- Learning Empathy Through Virtual Reality: Multiple Strategies for Training Empathy-Related Abilities Using Body Ownership Illusions in Embodied Virtual Reality
- Understanding Digitally-Mediated Empathy: An Exploration of Visual, Narrative, and Biosensory Informational Cues
- Project Us: A Wearable for Enhancing Empathy
- MoodLight: Exploring Personal and Social Implications of Ambient Display of Biosensor Data
- Tensions of Data-Driven Reflection: A Case Study of Real-Time Emotional Biosensing
- A Smile at a Wedding and a Cheer at a Soccer Game Are Alike the World Over
Week 6: AUGMENTING THE SENSES & PERCEPTION
Required Readings:
- Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman | TED
- Stelarc | Contemporary Chimeras | AugmentedHumans 2020
- Can You See With Your Tongue?
Optional Reading:
- FingerReader: a wearable device to explore printed text on the go
- PHOX Ears: Parabolic, Head-mounted, Orientable, eXtrasensory Listening Device
- Neil Harbisson: I listen to color | TED
- Multisensory Experiences: Where the Senses Meet Technology
- AfterMath: Visualizing Consequences of Actions through Augmented Reality
- Mixed Feelings | WIRED
- An attempt to extend human sensory capabilities by means of implant technology
Week 5: ENGINEERING SLEEP AND DREAMS
Required Readings:
Also pick any 2 of the following, rest are optional:
- Sleeping in a Brave New World (Targeted Memory Reactivation)
- Following a Script to Escape a Nightmare (Imagery Rehearsal Therapy)
- Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced memory consolidation: Replication in an overnight sleep study. (Dreams + Learning)
- Dormio: A targeted dream incubation device (Dream Incubation)
- Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers (Lucid Dreaming)
- Quit Smoking in Your Sleep (Behavior Change)
Week 4: SUBCONSCIOUS INTERFACES & EMBODIED COGNITION
Required Readings :
- Mindless Computing: Designing Technologies to Subtly Influence Behavior
- Minding the Mind (First 4-5 pages, rest are optional)
- Iowa Gambling Task
Optional Readings :
- Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap
- Somatic marker hypothesis
- Six views of embodied cognition
- BoostMeUp: Improving Cognitive Performance in the Moment by Unobtrusively Regulating Emotions with a Smartwatch
- Designing Interactions Beyond Conscious Control: A New Model for Wearable Interfaces
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Week 3: ENHANCING REASONING & DECISION MAKING
Required Readings :
- Thinking Fast and Slow (video)
- Visualizing each of the 188 known confirmation biases (on Medium)
- Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence (video)
- Mel Slater: becoming a better person through VR embodiment
Optional Readings :
- Partners in Cognition: Extending Human Intelligence with Intelligent Technologies
- The emotional dog and its rational tail
- The Proteus Effect: Implications of Transformed Digital Self-Representation on Online and Offline Behavior
- Conversations between self and self as Sigmund Freud—A virtual body ownership paradigm for self counselling
- Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias
- Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions
- AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface
Week 2: AUGMENTING ATTENTION & MEMORY
Required Readings :
- How We Make Memories (video)
- Remembering and Forgetting (video)
- Attention | Psychology (video)
Optional Readings :
- Black Mirror, The entire history of you – a dystopian view of memory augmentation – Available on Netflix
- Alive Inside – documentary on music and dementia – Available on Tubi (free)
- NeverMind: Using Augmented Reality for Memorization – Rosello et al. 2016
- The Memory Glasses: Subliminal vs. Overt Memory Support with Imperfect Information – Devaul et al. 2003
- AttentivU: An EEG-Based Closed-Loop Biofeedback System for Real-Time Monitoring and Improvement of Engagement for Personalized Learning – Kosmyna et al. 2019
- Memory editing from science fiction to clinical practice
- The scientists who make apps addictive