ORCID
0009-0001-9904-0111
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Daniel Stephens
Keywords
Keywords: algorithmic attention, visual salience, variable rewards, infinite scrolling, recommender systems, attention governance, digital wellbeing, ASM, CAS, attention safeguard models, cognitive attentional standards, Delante Clark, I.D.E.A.S
Abstract
Algorithmic recommendation systems and interface designs shape attention by combining visually salient cues with uncertain reward timing and low friction interaction. These conditions can sustain anticipatory checking, extend time on task, and reduce natural disengagement points through patterns such as infinite scrolling and autoplay. This paper synthesizes research across neuroscience, human computer interaction, behavioral economics, and artificial intelligence to argue that attention capture is a predictable outcome of incentive driven design rather than an individual failure of self regulation. It advances the Attention Safeguard Models and the Cognitive Attentional Standard as system level interventions that regulate exposure conditions, pacing, and amplification velocity without adjudicating content meaning. The contribution is a governance framework that supports auditable design requirements for cognitive sustainability and a research agenda for testing CAS thresholds with field measures of engagement and recovery.
College
College of Community Innovation and Education
STARS Citation
Clark, Delante, "Governing Algorithmic Attention: Attention Safeguard Models and the Cognitive Attentional Standard as System Level Interventions in Human Computer Interaction, Behavioral Economics, and Artificial Intelligence" (2026). Graduate Scholarship and Creative Works. 7.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/gradscholar/7
Included in
Behavioral Economics Commons, Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Commons, Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Cognitive Science Commons, Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Consumer Protection Law Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Economic Policy Commons, Education Economics Commons, Education Policy Commons, First Amendment Commons, Health Policy Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Internet Law Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Psychology Commons, Law and Society Commons, Other Business Commons, Other Communication Commons, Other Political Science Commons, Other Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons, Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Other Sociology Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Public Administration Commons, Public Interest Commons, Public Policy Commons, Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies Commons, Science and Technology Policy Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons, Social Influence and Political Communication Commons, Social Media Commons, Social Policy Commons, Social Psychology and Interaction Commons, State and Local Government Law Commons, Technology and Innovation Commons, Urban Studies Commons, Work, Economy and Organizations Commons