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The case for psychological computing

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Romit Roy ChoudhuryAuthors Info & Claims

HotMobile '13: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2444776.2444785

Published: 26 February 2013 Publication History

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This paper envisions a new research direction that we call psychological computing. The key observation is that, even though computing systems are missioned to satisfy human needs, there has been little attempt to bring understandings of human need/psychology into core system design. This paper makes the case that percolating psychological insights deeper into the computing layers is valuable, even essential. Through examples from content caching, vehicular systems, and network scheduling, we argue that psychological awareness can not only offer performance gains to known technological problems, but also spawn new kinds of systems that are difficult to conceive otherwise.

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Index Terms

The case for psychological computing
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
  2. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Psychology

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