Dr. Danielle S. McNamara has been named the inaugural editor of the new journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior, to be published by the American Psychological Association. This interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal will feature research on human–technology interaction with a focus on human behaviour at individual or group levels. Her tenure as editor runs through 2025.
McNamara is professor of psychology and director of the Science of Learning and Educational Technology Lab at Arizona State University. The overarching theme of her research has been to better understand cognitive processes involved in comprehension, writing, knowledge acquisition and memory, and to apply that understanding to educational practice by developing and testing educational technologies. She has published over 400 papers and secured more than $20 million in federal research funding.
To ensure that the journal represents different research communities, McNamara will recruit an editorial board made up of researchers across research areas; look for leading scholars covering the breadth of topics addressed by the journal to submit empirical reviews and theoretical papers; and attend conferences in an array of relevant areas. She is already involved with many scholarly societies, including Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Society for Computers in Psychology, Educational Data Mining, the American Educational Research Association, Society for Text and Discourse, and Learning Sciences. McNamara also plans to focus on social media and multimedia outreach, including interviews with authors.
Technology, Mind, and Behavior will showcase basic and applied empirical research on the psychology and dynamics of the interaction between humans and technology. Meta-analyses and literature reviews that summarise the current state of science on a relevant topic will also be accepted. Research featured in Technology, Mind, and Behavior may address the full range of contemporary and emerging technologies. These include but are not limited to artificial intelligence, robotics, mobile devices, social media, virtual/augmented reality, gaming, geographic information systems, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnology and biomedical technologies (e.g., brain-machine interfaces and genetic engineering).
Technology, Mind, and Behavior will be an online-only, open access journal, and the first journal hosted on the new APA Open platform. The journal will begin accepting submissions online in October and the first articles will be published as they become available, most likely in the first quarter of 2020.
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