This chapter describes some of those strengths and weaknesses as background for understanding how we can design interactive systems to support and augment attention and memory.
They are designed to augment wakefulness, attention, memory, decision making, and planning.
A great strategy would be to augment her short attention span with the news of your powerful memoir, which, by the way, has to do with seeking powerful relationships.
Indeed, there may be even greater resistance to it than to other varieties of biomedical enhancement, such as the use of pharmaceuticals to augment the memory, attention, or sporting prowess of normal persons.
Catastrophizing has been suggested to augment pain perception via enhanced attention to painful stimuli and through heightened emotional responses to pain.
In the end, either wearable technologies will be able to augment our experiences and focus our attention on a current task and the people with whom we are interacting, or they'll distract us diverting our attention through tasty morsels of information that are irrelevant to the current activity.
Our results suggest that the incoming stimulus stream is constantly being monitored, even when the stimulus is physically invariant and attention is directed elsewhere, to augment the neural response to the most statistically salient features of the ongoing stimulus stream.
Because technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases, congressional attention has focused on how to augment private-sector technological development.
Data are emerging in India, and in this review, we focus on the current data of biomarkers in sepsis with particular attention to how biomarkers could be used to augment diagnosis and treatment in India.
Assistive technology such as hearing aids and cochlear implants can be used to augment basic hearing loss, while more serious conditions may require specialized medical attention.
