2019 Spring Course

Week 1: INTRODUCTION

1.  Bush’s “As We May Think”
2.  Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis”
3. Book Cyborg by Steve Mann
4. Book Natural born cyborgs by Andy Clark
5. Book 21 problems for 21st century
6. Doug Englebart’s famous article: https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

Week 2: SELF AWARENESS AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE

1. The Cognition Crisis – Adam Gazzaley:
2. Augmenting Human Intellect and Amplifying Perception and Cognition – Albrecht Schmidt
3. One of:
* A behavior model for persuasive design – BJ Fogg
* TED talk – A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit – Judson Brewer, MD
* Interview with Chris Dancy on Team Human podcast
* Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) in Mobile Health

Week 3: MEMORY

1. How We Make Memories (video)
2. Remembering and Forgetting (video)
3. Chapter 2: Foundations – Evangelos Niforatos

Optional:

• Black Mirror, The entire history of you – a dystopian view of memory augmentation
• Alive Inside – documentary on music and dementia
• 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

Week 4: Subconscious Interfaces and Embodied Cognition 

1. Minding the Mind – Schooler et al. 2015
2. The Placebo Effect  – Miller et al. 2009
3. Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet– B. Benson 2016

Optional:

• Placebo effect: work by Prof. Ted Kaptchuk
  • TEDMED 2014 – T. Kaptchuk
  • The Power of Nothing – The New Yorker
• Power of mindset: work by Prof. Carol Dweck
  • The Power of Believing You Can Improve – C. Dweck TEDxNorrkoping 2014
• Two system thinking: work by Prof.s Tversky and Kahneman
  • Thinking Fast and Slow – D. Kahneman 2011
• Unconscious processing
  • Subliminal – L. Mlodinow 2013