Sam Brooker

Sam Brooker (presenting) is a Course Leader and Senior Lecturer at London College of Communication. He specialises in digital communication and in his research explores the relationship between digital technologies and theories of literature and culture. Sarah Diefenbach (contributor) is professor for economic psychology and human-computer interaction at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (Munich, Germany). Her research explores design factors and relevant psychological mechanisms in the context of consumer experience and technology usage. Current topics focus on the negative side effects of technology use on happiness and wellbeing (“digital depression”) and technology for behavior change in different fields (e.g, health, sustainability) Claus Atzenbeck (contributor) is Professor for Visual Analytics at Hof University, Germany. His research centers on intelligent, knowledge-based user interfaces that allow seamless interactions between humans and intelligent machines. His work is particularly focused on the field of hypertext, with a specific interest in recommender-based spatial hypertext systems.