Human-technology Interaction Research Articles

Technology protocols and new health regulations for pandemic severity control: an S-O-R theoretical risk reduction approach

PurposeDeveloped countries control pandemics using smart decisions and processes based on medical standards and modern technologies. Studies on risk-reduction and humantechnology interaction are scarce. This study developed a model to examine the relationship between citizens, pandemic-related technology and official safety practices.Design/methodology/approachThis study investigated the mediating role of new health regulations and moderating role of safety incentives due to COVID-19 case reduction in pandemic severity control. This study included 407 operations managers, nursing staff conducting pandemic testing and reporting, doctors and security personnel in China. An artificial neural network (ANN) was used to check nonlinear regressions and model predictability.FindingsThe results demonstrated the impact of the introduction of new technology protocols on the implementation of new health regulations and aided pandemic severity control. The safety incentive of case reductions moderated the relationship between new health regulations and pandemic severity control. New health regulations mediated the relationship between the introduction of new technology protocols and pandemic severity control.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research should be conducted on pandemic severity in diversely populated cities, particularly those that require safety measures and controls. Future studies should focus on cloud computing for nurses, busy campuses and communal living spaces.Social implicationsAuthorities should involve citizens in pandemic-related technical advances to reduce local viral transmission and infection. New health regulations improved people's interactions with new technological protocols and understanding of pandemic severity. Pandemic management authorities should work with medical and security employees.Originality/valueThis study is the first to demonstrate that a safety framework with technology-oriented techniques could reduce future pandemics using managerial initiatives.

Brain Computer Interfaces: The Future of Communication Between the Brain and the External World

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current state of research on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and their potential applications. The objective of this study was to gather information from various sources, including journal articles, conference papers, and books, to analyze the advancements and limitations of BCIs. A systematic literature review was conducted using databases such as PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar, with specific keywords related to BCIs and their applications. The selected studies were thoroughly analyzed to identify common themes, methodologies, and key findings. The main contributions of this review include an overview of different types of BCIs, their applications in fields such as medicine, entertainment, and education, and the challenges and limitations faced by BCI technology. The findings highlight the potential of BCIs in restoring motor function, improving the quality of life for individuals with various conditions, and enhancing human-technology interaction. Furthermore, the review identifies future research directions, including signal processing improvements, exploring hybrid and multimodal approaches, conducting long-term real-world studies, addressing ethical considerations, and prioritizing user-centred design. This comprehensive analysis of existing literature provides valuable insights for researchers and practitioners in the field of BCIs and sets the stage for future advancements in this rapidly evolving domain.

Patient safety and sense of security when telemonitoring chronic conditions at home: the views of patients and healthcare professionals - a qualitative study

BackgroundChronic diseases are increasing worldwide, and the complexity of disease management is putting new demands on safe healthcare. Telemonitoring technology has the potential to improve self-care management with the support of healthcare professionals for people with chronic diseases living at home. Patient safety threats related to telemonitoring and how they may affect patients’ and healthcare professionals’ sense of security need attention. This study aimed to explore patients’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences of safety and sense of security when using telemonitoring of chronic conditions at home.MethodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty patients and nine healthcare professionals (nurses and physicians), recruited from four primary healthcare centers and one medical department in a region in southern Sweden using telemonitoring service for chronic conditions in home healthcare.ResultsThe main theme was that experiences of safety and a sense of security were intertwined and relied on patients´ and healthcare professionals´ mutual engagement in telemonitoring and managing symptoms together. Telemonitoring was perceived to increase symptom awareness and promote early detection of deterioration promoting patient safety. A sense of security emerged through having someone keeping track of symptoms and comprised aspects of availability, shared responsibility, technical confidence, and empowering patients in self-management. The meeting with technology changed healthcare professionals’ work processes, and patients’ daily routines, creating patient safety risks if combined with low health- and digital literacy and a naïve reliance on technology. Empowering patients’ self-management ability and improving shared understanding of the patient’s health status and symptom management were prerequisites for safe care and the patient´s sense of security.ConclusionsTelemonitoring chronic conditions in the homecare context can promote a sense of security when care is co-created in a mutual understanding and responsibility. Attentiveness to the patient’s health literacy, symptom management, and health-related safety behavior when using eHealth technology may enlighten and mitigate latent patient safety risks. A systems approach indicates that patient safety risks related to telemonitoring are not only associated with the patient’s and healthcare professionals functioning and behavior or the human-technology interaction. Mitigating patient safety risks are likely also dependent on the complex management of home health and social care service.

Democratizing Health Care in the Metaverse: How Video Games can Monitor Eye Conditions Using the Vision Performance Index: A Pilot Study

In a world where digital media is deeply engrained into our everyday lives, there lies an opportunity to leverage interactions with technology for health and wellness. The Vision Performance Index (VPI) leverages natural human-technology interaction to evaluate visual function using visual, cognitive, and motor psychometric data over 5 domains: field of view, accuracy, multitracking, endurance, and detection. The purpose of this study was to describe a novel method of evaluating holistic visual function through video game-derived VPI score data in patients with specific ocular pathology. Prospective comparative analysis. Patients with dry eye, glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy (DR), age-related macular degeneration, and healthy individuals. The Vizzario Inc software development kit was integrated into 2 video game applications, Balloon Pop and Picture Perfect, which allowed for generation of VPI scores. Study participants were instructed to play rounds of each video game, from which a VPI score was compiled. The primary outcome was VPI overall score in each comparison group. Vision Performance Index component, subcomponent scores, and psychophysical inputs were also compared. Vision Performance Index scores were generated from 93 patients with macular degeneration (n= 10), cataract (n= 10), DR (n= 15), dry eye (n= 15), glaucoma (n= 16), and no ocular disease (n= 27). The VPI overall score was not significantly different across comparison groups. The VPI subcomponent "reaction accuracy" score was significantly greater in DR patients (106 ± 13.2) versus controls (96.9 ± 11.5), P= 0.0220. The VPI subcomponent "color detection" score was significantly lower in patients with DR (96.8 ± 2.5; p=0.0217) and glaucoma (98.5 ± 6.3; P= 0.0093) compared with controls (101 ± 11). Psychophysical measures were statistically significantly different from controls: proportion correct (lower in DR, age-related macular degeneration), contrast errors (higher in cataract, DR), and saturation errors (higher in dry eye). Vision Performance Index scores can be generated from interactions of an ocular disease population with video games. The VPI may offer utility in monitoring select ocular diseases through evaluation of subcomponent and psychophysical input scores; however, future larger-scale studies must evaluate the validity of this tool. Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found after the references.

New dyads? The effect of social robots’ anthropomorphization on empathy towards human beings

Research on Human-Technology Interactions revealed that, under certain conditions, people instinctively interact with social robots in ways comparable to Human–Human Interactions. Indeed, people apply social perception schemas and attribute a mind to social robots, especially when they present anthropomorphic characteristics. Furthermore, under certain conditions, anthropomorphic social robots are awarded with moral consideration and participate to moral dyads. Thus, anthropomorphism facilitates social robots integration in people's lives. However, what is still unknown is whether adopting social schemas with social robots, in turn, affects how individuals perceive and interact with other people. To fill this gap, we experimentally investigated whether the type of mind attributed to anthropomorphic social robot, then, complementary influences the empathy towards a person in trouble. Participants (n = 269) interacted (vs. did not interact) through a chatbot with a highly (vs. lowly) anthropomorphic social robot, evaluated it on mind dimensions and, finally, expressed their empathy towards a person. Results demonstrated that anthropomorphism fosters the attribution of agency (anthropomorphic appearance and interaction through chatbot) and experience (anthropomorphic appearance only), which, in turn, significantly, but in opposite directions, affected empathy towards the social target. Implications and future research directions are outlined.

Eyes on the road: brain computer interfaces and cognitive distraction in traffic.

Novel wearable neurotechnology is able to provide insight into its wearer's cognitive processes and offers ways to change or enhance their capacities. Moreover, it offers the promise of hands-free device control. These brain-computer interfaces are likely to become an everyday technology in the near future, due to their increasing accessibility and affordability. We, therefore, must anticipate their impact, not only on society and individuals broadly but also more specifically on sectors such as traffic and transport. In an economy where attention is increasingly becoming a scarce good, these innovations may present both opportunities and challenges for daily activities that require focus, such as driving and cycling. Here, we argue that their development carries a dual risk. Firstly, BCI-based devices may match or further increase the intensity of cognitive human-technology interaction over the current hands-free communication devices which, despite being widely accepted, are well-known for introducing a significant amount of cognitive load and distraction. Secondly, BCI-based devices will be typically harder than hands-free devices to both visually detect (e.g., how can law enforcement check when these extremely small and well-integrated devices are used?) and restrain in their use (e.g., how do we prevent users from using such neurotechnologies without breaching personal integrity and privacy?). Their use in traffic should be anticipated by researchers, engineers, and policymakers, in order to ensure the safety of all road users.

Adaptation of Affinity for Technology Interaction Scale to Turkish Culture and Evaluation of Measurement Invariance: ATI-T

An important dimension of human-technology interaction is whether people approach actively interacting with technological systems or avoid intense interaction with them. This dimension is also important for an individual’s ability to cope with technological changes, necessitating the need to observe and comprehend individual differences. In this study, we aimed to adapt the Affinity for Technology Interaction (ATI) scale to Turkish and evaluate its psychometric properties, including measurement invariance, in the target culture. A team of English and Turkish language linguists, psychometrists, and technology education experts carried out the process. Four applications were conducted in four different respondent groups to examine intelligibility, linguistic equivalence, reliability, validity, and measurement invariance. The one-dimensional and nine-item original scale structure was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. The internal consistency and test-retest reliability coefficients were calculated as 0.90 and 0.94, respectively. We also concluded that a strict level of measurement invariance was provided in the analysis of invariance between age and gender groups. These findings demonstrated that ATI-T is a measurement tool capable of measuring affinity for technology interaction in Turkish-speaking societies.

Is socially disruptive smartphone use detrimental to well-being? A systematic meta-analytic review on being phubbed

ABSTRACT Phubbing—i.e. excluding and ignoring others through smartphone use—is a pervasive phenomenon. Yet, a comprehensive understanding of its consequences is still lacking. This systematic meta-analytic review aimed to (1) synthesize the associations between being phubbed and emotional and cognitive, social, and behavioural well-being, (2) test the strength of these associations, and (3) investigate moderating influences. Literature searches according to PRISMA-guidelines yielded k = 83 included studies. Random-effects meta-analyses were conducted for 24 of 72 extracted consequences. Subgroup analyses were performed for phubbees’ relationship to interlocutors, age group, and study design. The overall sample was N = 53,916 with a mean age of 19.68 years. Being phubbed was moderately to strongly (e.g. = .23–.75) associated with various adverse consequences (e.g. depression, relationship dissatisfaction, derogation of interlocutors, smartphone addiction). Effects were larger for adolescents than for adults. The findings are in line with existing theoretical assumptions (e.g. the temporal need-threat model of ostracism) corroborating that phubbing is a detrimental experience. Thus, phubbing appears to be a public health issue which should be addressed through suitable interventions in order to enhance healthy human-human and human-technology interactions.

Realistic interaction design of large site scenes based on virtual reality technology

Abstract Virtual reality technology first appeared in the 1980s and can also be called VR technology, which contains computer technology, sensing technology, human interaction technology, and artificial intelligence technology. With the continuous maturation of virtual technology, which is now one of the world’s frontier scientific projects, large site scene interaction processing there are different transformation scales, transformation scale occurs, its existence of numerical differences, resulting in the output of the scene image produces missing, for the problem, this paper uses virtual reality technology of animation interactivity design integrity automation analysis method. The process uses virtual reality technology to output interaction instructions, determine the angle of change generated by the interaction change instructions, use bilinear difference processing to reconstruct the vector value space formed by the interaction semantics, iteratively back-project the interaction image and form a correction parameter within the output image range values, control the numerical difference generated during the transformation, sample the feature vector obtained by contour screening, and superimpose the interaction deformation within the propagation field values in the propagation field to achieve integrity analysis. This study builds a large site scene interaction platform, iterates the virtual reality editing framework, applies the analysis method based on visual scene understanding, the analysis method based on the immersion model and the designed automated analysis method to participate in the test, and the test results show that the output of the designed automated analysis method does not produce missing animated images, the integrity analysis results are the best and the designed integrity analysis method produces the average analysis time generated by the designed integrity analysis method is 8s, which largely reduces the working time and improves the efficiency. Through the VR market research statistical chart, the analysis shows that both online and offline VR market shows a linear increase from 2017 to 2021, further indicating that virtual reality technology will have a broad application prospect in the future and produce a disruptive change in the way human society interacts with each other.

Connected Living—Part I

With the recent, remarkable advancements in the Internet of Things, wireless communication, edge/cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the connection between human beings and their surrounding environments has dramatically increased, entering a new era of connected living. New challenges and opportunities are also brought up in the complex interaction between human beings and technologies. The focus of this special issue of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Internet Computing</i> is on investigating new technologies and human-technology interactions that will enable connected living to enhance well-being management and quality of life. The articles in this special issue investigate and present new technologies, visions, and projects in human–technology interactions toward connected living.

SID Display Week: Celebrating 60 Years of Innovation

THIS YEAR'S DISPLAY WEEK, THE ANNUAL International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition organized by the Society for Information Display (SID), is being held May 21–26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It's occurring 60 years after the first annual event was held in the same city. On this anniversary, I want to reflect on where we are today. All around us, we are witnessing transformations in the ways we interact with technologies and devices. Today's human-technology interfaces are more natural, intuitive, and interactive than ever before, with visual displays at the center. We've seen the evolution of human inputs from joysticks, to mice and keyboards, to touchscreens. Now voice and vision are emerging as the next wave. With continued developments in artificial intelligence (AI), natural interfaces based on touch, voice, and vision are poised to become the primary ways that we interact with devices. New products and markets have been driven by innovators who capitalized on new human-technology interaction paradigms. A driving force in the widespread proliferation of personal computers was the advent of the mouse and keyboard, and modern smartphones were largely made possible because of touch interfaces, among other key enabling technologies, including flat-panel displays. Now virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices are emerging, benefiting from computer vision innovations in inside-out tracking and natural gesture control interfaces. The significance of this continuing transformation for the industry that SID serves cannot be overstated. It's no longer about just designing and manufacturing a display screen that shows information. The entire system must be considered together—from vision, voice, and touch sensors that see, hear, and feel human inputs, to AI algorithms that understand human intention and enable the system to respond through the display. Engineers must understand the entire information flow and architect integrated systems from sensors to displays. The value that SID provides to our members is in supporting them in delivering greater value to their customers, so we owe it to them to expand our focus to encompass end-to-end imaging and vision technologies. I explained this drive to “redefine the ‘I’ in SID” in the last issue of Information Display (ID). With that as a backdrop, I would like to share some highlights of the Display Week 2023 program. Display Week is well known for its expansive exhibition and international symposium, and this year is no exception. The International Technical Symposium will feature top scientists, researchers, and academics with presentations and hundreds of papers from around the world. Special topics include AR/MR/VR, machine learning, and outdoor displays, as well as sensors integration and multifunctional displays—a new topic for 2023 in line with our expanding focus. We also are debuting the SID Imaging and Vision Special Event with speakers from organizations such as Meta, Microsoft, Sony, UCLA, HKU, and OpenCV. The event will focus on advances in image sensing, computer graphics, AI-aided computer vision, and machine learning techniques that enable new intelligent and interactive systems and applications. On the exhibition floor, the largest display and imaging companies will demonstrate advances in AR/VR, OLED, microLED, miniLED, LCD, quantum dots, automobile technology, wearables, digital signage, ePaper, vision sensors, and more. In the Innovation Zone (I-Zone), attendees can see prototypes and pre-market products from small companies, startups, and research organizations. An amazing part of Display Week is how it honors people who have made significant contributions to the industry. The 2023 Honors and Awards will be presented to a select group of innovators who have furthered research, pushed the boundaries of discovery, and improved technology. To read more about the prizes and honorees, see the March/April 2023 issue of ID. Other special events and programs include the SID/DSCC Business Conference, CEO Forum, Women in Tech event, Young Leadership Conference, SID Job Fair, and much more. There is something for everyone in the ecosystem. Looking to the next 60 years, SID will continue to evolve as the world evolves, and Display Week will continue to be the place to experience the latest innovations in electronic displays and imaging technologies. We're excited to bring these important developments to our community. Please reach out with ideas and comments to [email protected]. I hope to see you at Display Week! Achin Bhowmik is the president of the Society for Information Display. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Socioenactive Interaction: Addressing Intersubjectivity in Ubiquitous Design Scenarios

People’s interaction with computers has been explained through several theories and methods throughout the history of computers and their uses; more complex scenarios of ubiquitous and pervasive computing experimented nowadays invite other ways of considering human-technology interaction. The enactive approach to cognition, centered in human experience in the environment, has shown itself as a possibility to understand interaction in these new scenarios. In this paper we present a view of interaction, named socioenactive, to explain our relation with contemporary computational technologies in scenarios of ubiquitous and pervasive systems, understood from the enactivist perspective. After presenting core concepts related to intersubjectivity that helped to build up what we mean by socioenactive interaction, we illustrate it with some scenarios of ubiquitous and pervasive technology (situated in a school, a museum and a hospital), designed for the study of the phenomena of interaction. Graspable aspects of intersubjectivity are raised in the considered scenarios and affordances for the socioenactive interaction are illustrated. Implications of the study are discussed leading to aspects to consider in a research agenda in the field.

First Steps toward Voice User Interfaces for Web-Based Navigation of Geographic Information: A Spanish Terms Study

This work presents the first steps toward developing specific technology for voice user interfaces for geographic information systems. Despite having many general elements, such as voice recognition libraries, the current technology still lacks the ability to fully understand and process the semantics that real users apply to command geographic information systems. This paper presents the results of three connected experiments, following a mixed-methods approach. The first experiment focused on identifying the most common words used when working with maps in a web browser. The second experiment developed an understanding of the chain of commands used for map management for a specific objective. Finally, the third experiment involved the development of a prototype to validate this understanding. Using data and fieldwork, we created a minimum corpus of terms in Spanish. In addition, we identified the particularities of use and user profiles to consider in a voice user interface for geographic information systems, involving the user’s proprioception concerning the world and technology. These user profiles can be considered in future designs of human–technology interaction products. All the data collected and the source code of the prototype are provided as additional material, free to use and modify.

Man at the centre of technology. A philosophical investigation of anthropological knowledge in man-machine-interfaces

The paper aims to examine the construction, circulation, and transformation of knowledge about man (anthropological knowledge) in human-technology interaction in the 20th century. The analysis focuses on the prerequisites of the industrial working world and its implicit knowledge about human beings. However, the basis and starting point of technical adaptation is usually ignored: The concepts of “man” and the anthropological knowledge gained experimentally from a anthropocentric designed interface. Based on the concept of an intuitive interface design this problem will be investigated. The questions posed by this article as well as the objectives associated with them open up an interdisciplinary framework between philosophy of technology, philosophical anthropology and history of science given that they not only focus – by means of historical reconstruction – on historical changes in technological developments. They also address the issue of generation and transformation of anthropological knowledge in the definitions and interactions of “man” and “technology”.

When Pinocchio becomes a real boy: Capability and felicity in AI and interactive depictions.

Clark and Fischer analyze social robots as interactive depictions, presenting characters that people can interact with in social settings. Unlike other types of depictions, the props for social robot depictions depend on emerging interactive technologies. This raises questions about how such depictions depict: They conflate character and prop in ways that delight, confuse, mistreat, and may become ordinary human-technology interactions.

Contextualizing realism: An analysis of acts of seeing and recording in Digital Twin datafication

Digital Twins are conceptualized as real-time digital representations of real-life physical entities or systems. They are explored for a wide array of societal implementations, and in particular to help address fundamental societal challenges. As accurate digital equivalents of their real-life twin, Digital Twins substitute their physical twin in knowledge production and decision-making processes. They raise high expectations: they are expected to produce new knowledge, expose issues early, predict future behavior, and help to optimize the physical twin. Data play a key role here because they form the building blocks from which the Digital Twin representation is created. However, data are not neutral phenomena but products of human-technology interaction. In this article, we therefore raise the question of how a Digital Twin data collection is created, and what implications does this have for Digital Twins? To answer this question, we explore the data collection process in three cases of Digital Twin development at a university. Connecting to Jasanoff's theoretical framework of regimes of sight, we approach the creation of a data collection as acts of seeing and recording that influence how reality is represented in data, as well as give a certain legitimacy and authority to the data collection. By examining the acts of seeing and recording and their respective roles in producing the data collection, we provide insight into the struggles of representation in Digital Twins and their implications.

One Design Rule to Rule Them All: Towards a Universal Golden Rule for Designers of Human-Technology Interaction

The aim of this article is to raise awareness and discussion of the ethical aspects of the human-technology design of socio-technical systems in general, as well as the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) designer responsibility towards users, stakeholders, and society. The dark side of HCI design is rising and the HCI community must respond to it in order to maintain its credibility and legitimacy. This article identifies and discusses four dimensions in human-technology interaction design ethics. To sum up these ethical dimensions of design and the responsibilities of a designer, this position article concludes with a proposed universal golden rule for designing human-technology interactions: Design as easy to use, honest, sustainable, and safe human-technology interactions as you would want others to design for you.

On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement

Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’ still have to be ‘connected’ between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm’s notion of social character to theorise dialectally about the interaction between these macro and micro-level phenomena. Doing so enables us to examine how the macro/micro interaction fosters to adoption of cognitive enhancement in the context of work, and what kinds of consequences might emerge from this. We propose the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers as a central consequence of the aforementioned interaction, and define it as an internalised version of external ideals of what it means to be a productive worker under cognitive capitalism, which over time generates and reinforces the affective experience of being deficient. Our theorising around socially patterned defects of a cognitive kind has crucial ramification for our understanding of technology-mediated affective control at work and how human–technology interactions shape the subjectivities of workers towards greater self-inferiorisation vis-à-vis the perceived superiority of technology. We close by foreshadowing avenues for future research.

EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF VOICE INTERFACES FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract Successful human-technology interactions require that people be able to communicate their intentions to the technology. Emergent technologies such as virtual assistants, digital home assistant, smart phones, robots, and smart appliances are enabling voice activation and communication. This is potentially a positive trend as people often express a preference for using familiar methods of communicating with other people in their interactions with technologies. Presumably they expect these methods to be easier to learn and more effective. However, current voice technology interfaces are often dependent on specific language, cadence, and terminology that pose challenges for older adults to master. Moreover, age-related changes in voice characteristics, speech patterns, and the variability between individuals may lead to comprehension failures on the part of the technology. We have utilized research findings to develop implementation guidelines for use of voice interfaces with older adults. We also identify research gaps to provide a roadmap for future efforts.