Peripheral Notification by PCT (peripheral cognision technologies)
Seiji Yamada (NII/Sokendai)
Naoki Mori (Tokyo Institute of Technology）
Kazuki Kobayashi（Shinshu University）
In this work, we describe a novel information notification method, Peripheral Cognition Technology (PCT) that utilizes human cognitive properties including visual field narrowing and change blindness (or
inattentional blindness). Information notification on a display for e-mail, micro blog, and application update, is becoming increasingly important in various environments such as offices, and the home. To develop a smart information notification, a user model-based approach and a peripheral display have been studied. However, building a user model is difficult and a peripheral display catches user attention. We propose a novel PCT for information notification.
The PCT utilizes the human cognitive properties that a visual field narrows when he/she concentrates on a task, and that a human tends to be unable to recognize subtle and slow changes. The core idea of PCT is that a human does not recognize subtle changes in a peripheral area of cognition when he/she concentrates on a task, and he/she automatically recognizes the changes when not concentrated. By setting a software agent or a device of information notification with subtle changes in such a peripheral area, a user automatically and easily accepts the notification only when his/her concentration breaks. Also PCT provides a way to determine various properties of HAI such as agents appearances and positions. Two concrete implementations, “Peripheral Agent” and “Shape Shifting Notification”, of PCT are introduced.
Publications
- Seiji Yamada, Naoki Mori and Kasuki Kobayashi: Peripheral Agent: Implementation of Peripheral Cognition Technology, In Proceedings of the 31th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Work-in-Progress (poster), pp.1701-1705, Paris, France (May 2013)
