Cognitive Infocommunications in Service of Sustainable Digital Spaces
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 4416
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Cognitive Infocommunications; cognitive aspects of VR/AR; virtual collaboration environments; learnability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom) is a nascent field at the meeting point of infocommunications and the cognitive sciences that focuses on a systematic view of how the natural cognitive capabilities of humans can co-evolve with infocommunication systems through long-term co-existence. A key goal in CogInfoCom is to develop engineering applications that make use of and support the creation of hybrid natural–artificial cognitive capabilities that are emergent by-products of such long-term co-evolution. Increasingly, three-dimensional digital spaces have become a key component of research endeavors within CogInfoCom, as spatial digital interactions have been found to closely mirror patterns of thinking that come naturally to humans in many application scenarios.
This Special Issue aims to present both recent theoretical and practical achievements in the field of Cognitive Infocommunications that are relevant to the creation of digital spaces contributing to sustainability. It aims to include high-quality applications, surveys, case studies, ICT–human coevolution-related articles, and research notes reflecting global digital sustainability and accessibility contributing to the state-of-art advances in the fields. Papers are expected to focus on both of these aspects, i.e., both emergent hybrid human–machine cognitive capabilities and their role in sustainable engineering development, whether in terms of sustainable environment, sustainable material / financial costs, psychological aspects of sustainability, or even sustainable cognitive costs. From the latter perspective, cognitive resources including attention and memory can be viewed as expendable resources that have an influence on psychological well-being, both in the short and long term. Contributions focusing on any of these aspects of sustainability from a CogInfoCom perspective are highly welcome.
Dr. Ildikó Horváth
Dr. Ádám Csapó
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cognitive Infocommunications
- digital reality
- artificial intelligence
- sustainable digital spaces
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