The Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception (ECO-AP) is an interdisciplinary hub investigating how attention and perception are shaped by digital technologies and social infrastructures. A space for thinking and making, the Centre brings together research and creative experimentation to explore how attention operates across human and more-than-human worlds. Our research refracts attention through philosophy, social theory, psychology, neuroscience, media studies and creative practice to reveal its ethical, aesthetic, social and technical dimensions. The Centre’s name reflects our commitment to exploring attention as a distributed, mediated and ecological phenomenon which is closely entangled with perception. The Centre is thus a space where the complexities of attention and perception can be studied, visualised and reimagined.

Focus areas:

• The ecologies, infrastructures and technologies of attention and perception
• The aesthetics and ethics of the sensed world
• XR and attention; multisensory XR
• Human and machine perception in the age of AI
• Creative cognition and technological mediation
• Attention and immersion in digital gaming (The Digital Humanities Game Lab)

Click here to see a list of our members’ publications on the topics related to the Centre’s work.

The Centre for Ecologies of Attention and Perception is part of the Digital Futures Institute. We also co-host the Digital x Climates network.

We are also part of the Centre for Attention Studies run in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.