Wearable computing: Will it make people prosocial?
We recently reported that people who wear an eye tracker modify their natural looking behaviour in a prosocial manner. This change in looking behaviour represents a potential concern for researchers who wish to use eye trackers to understand the functioning of human attention. On the other hand, it...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 106; no. 2; pp. 209 - 217 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2015
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