Human perceptual and cognitive abilities are limited resources. Attention is the mechanism
used to allocate such resources in the most effective way. Current technologies, in addition …

In HCI research there is a body of work concerned with the development of systems capable
of reasoning about users' attention and how this might be most effectively guided for specific …

Digital systems, such as phones, computers and PDAs, place continuous demands on our
cognitive and perceptual systems. They offer information and interaction opportunities well …

Attention provides a way to direct limited cognitive resources to a subset of available
information. In the human case, this capacity enables selective mental processing, thereby …

Remembering planned activities, resuming tasks previously interrupted, recalling the names
of colleagues, sustaining focused performance under the pressure of interruptions, ensuring …

Today's information and communication devices provide always-on connectivity, instant
access to an endless repository of information, and represent the most direct point of contact …

Based on concepts of the human visual system, computational visual attention systems aim
to detect regions of interest in images. Psychologists, neurobiologists, and computer …

Attentive user interfaces are user interfaces that aim to support the user's attentional
capacities. By sensing the users' attention for objects and people in their everyday …

This paper presents arguments that explicit strategies for visual attentional selection are
important for cognitive vision systems, and shows that a number of proposals currently exist …

New technology presents opportunities for enhancing the performance of human systems
that are tasked to meet multiple, often competing demands. Yet, mistakes in designing and …