„Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success.“ - Thomas H. Davenport

Stakeholder Interviews
10 leading experts of Austrian institutions give insight into the role of attention from different perspectives. read more...

Raising Attention
Information overload and attention scarcity are social and industrial issues, threatening human well-being and productivity. The project 'Raising Attention' aims at opening the door for comprehensive interdisciplinary research and development in the integration of human attention as the key factor for the design of future Human-Computer Interaction and Information and Communication systems.
We pursue the next step in the evolution from 'classic' Artificial Intelligence to Cognitive Systems we call 'Attention aware systems'.

Raising Awareness

Such a proposition requires a general and highly interdisciplinary scientific and industrial mobilization to achieve the necessary rising of public and political awareness.

The goals of this project are to:

• unify scientific approaches across interdisciplinary institutions
• create visions and roadmaps: Identification of key research challenges
• raise awareness: scientific and industrial mobilization
• lay ground for an austrian flagship project

These goals will be pursued in the scope of interdisciplinary academic and industrial events to mobilize the european excellence of attention research.