Computers in Human Behavior
Special issue on
Attention aware systems

Subjects of interest include but are not limited to:

• Studies of cognitive / physical factors that may influence attention and their application to system design

• Rhetorical, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of attention

• High level cognitive processes - motivations, goals, interests - and attention

• Visual attention

• Awareness and notification systems

• Systems designed to exploit specific attentional mechanisms

• Systems capable of assessing users' attentional focus

• Eye tracking systems

• Simulations of human attentional mechanisms

• The design of transparent systems

• Systems capable of guiding / maintaining users' attentional focus

• The role of surprise in designing for attention: caveat or useful tool?