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The Four Types of Attention
Informatics is a term that my very interdisciplinary department came up with to characterize the intersection of people and computing. In your work about attention, you've identified four different kinds of attention. Can you break that down for us, please? Sure. People generally tend to think of attention in two states as being focused and unfocused. As I was studying people, I realized that attention is far more nuanced because you can be really engaged with something and putting in a lot of mental effort.