Cyberpsychology:
An Introduction to Human-Computer
Interaction
Kent L. Norman
Department of Psychology
and the HCIL
HCIL Symposium 2009
Cyberpsychology
• the study of the impact of computers,
technology, and virtual environments on
the psychology of individuals and groups
Analog or Digital
The Digitizing of Our World
Boolean algebra
Digital Storage
George Boole
1815-1864
Herman Hollerith
1860-1929
Digital Computers
The Internet
Claude Shannon
1916-2001
J. C. R. Licklider
1915 – 1990
The Psychologizing of Our
World
Father of experimental
psychology
WilhelmWundt
1832-1920
First American
psychologist
William James
1842-1910
Classical conditioning and
learning
The self and
the unconscious
Ivan Pavlov
1849-1936
Sigmund Freud
1856-1939
Audience(s)
• Psychology undergraduates who need to
know about how people fit into the changing
world of technology.
• Computer science students who do not have
a sufficient background in the psychology of
the user to begin studying HCI.
• Everyone whose life is affected by computers.
Cyberpsychology Chapters
• Historical Perspectives
• Biological and Technological Bases
• Theories Models, and Metaphors
• Research: Modes and Methods
• Sensory-Motor Interfaces: Input and Output
• Learning, Memory, and Retrieval
• Cognitive: Thinking and Problem Solving
• Language and Programming
Cyberpsychology Topics
• Individual Differences and Personality
• Motivation, Emotion, and Affect
• Interpersonal Relations
• Abnormal Behavior and Cybertherapies
• Automation and Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Enhancing Technologies
• Games, Entertainment, and Education
• The Ultimate Human-Computer Interface
• Language and Programming
Biological and Technological
Foundations
(humans on the left, machines on the right)
The Human/Computer
Interface
Sensory-Motor I/O
Social Computing
Social computing is a general term for an area of
computer science that is concerned with the
intersection of social behavior and computational
systems.
• Facebook
• Myspace
• Blogspace
• Youtube
New Cyberpathologies and
new
Cybertherapies
• Cyberphobias, Cybergenic
Stress Syndrome
• Internet manifestations of old
pathologies
• Online therapies
Student Comments:
• I actually felt that the book was very wellwritten and most importantly, concise. Very
easy to learn the information and the course
was designed such that it was a wonderful
study aid.
• I liked the way it was organized it covered a
lot of aspects of psychology and technology
that I didn’t think it would.
The End
(or just the beginning)