This book describes the theoretical foundations of cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom), and provides a survey on state-of-the-art solutions and applications within the field. The book covers aspects of cognitive infocommunications in research fields such as affective computing, BCI, future internet, HCI, HRI, sensory substitution, and virtual/augmented interactions, and also introduces newly proposed paradigms and initiatives under the field, including CogInfoCom channels, speechability and socio-cognitive ICT. The book focuses on describing the merging between humans and information and communications technology (ICT) at the level of cognitive capabilities with an approach towards developing future cognitive ICT.

Peter Baranyi is a professor at the Széchenyi István Unversity of Győr, and Head of the 3D Internet based Control and Communications Laboratory at the Institute for Computer Science and Control of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Adam Csapo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computer Science and Control of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and an associate professor at the Széchenyi István University of Győr.

Gyula Sallai is a professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Scientific Director of the Future Internet Research Coordination Centre.