Special Issue of HCI on Cog Arch & HCI

[Wayne Gray]

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Papers invited for a special issue of Human-Computer Interaction journal
                         on the topic of
                "Cognitive Architectures and HCI"


SPECIAL ISSUE TOPIC:  Cognitive Architectures and HCI

The use of cognitive architectures is beginning to have an
interesting but little noted effect on the types of user modeling
applied to HCI issues.  In the past, the software used to construct
user models was either very generic (as in the use of OPS5) or hand-
crafted by the individual modeler.  Recently this has changed.  At
first generic connectionist architectures and, more recently, symbol
manipulation and/or hybrid architectures (Soar, ACT-R, CAPS, CI, and
EPIC) have entered the public domain as systems that are centrally
supported and whose use has spread beyond their developers.  What is
gained and what is lost by this trend?

Following a workshop at CHI'95, the journal Human-Computer Interaction
plans to publish a special issue on the subject of Cognitive Archictures
and HCI, to be edited by Wayne Gray, Susan Kirschenbaum and Richard Young. 
We are soliciting high quality manuscripts, either substantive research
contributions or review papers, on any aspect of the use of cognitive
architectures for the modeling, analysis and solution of HCI problems. 
Example topics include (but are not limited to):

 1.  Which architectures are best for which kinds of analyses and problems?
 2.  The methodology appropriate to the development and use of models based
     on a cognitive architecture.
 3.  The theoretical basis for cognitive user models.
 4.  Comparison of cognitive modeling and other approaches for addressing
     HCI problems.

Please note that normal rigorous journal refereeing standards will
apply.  To aid cohesion and quality, all papers will be cross-
refereed by the authors of other papers in the special issue, as
well as by reviewers from outside the group.  People submitting
papers may therefore be asked to contribute to the review process.


Submission format:  We would prefer electronic submission in the first
instance, in one of the following two formats.
   (1)  If the manuscript is a Microsoft Word document, then please
        send it as a BinHex'd (e.g. "attached") file.
   (2)  Otherwise send it as a printable PostScript file.
In either case, please email the file to gray at gmu.edu .
If electronic submission is not feasible, then please send 7 copies
of the manuscript (by Air Mail if from outside N America) to 
         Wayne D. Gray
         Associate Professor of Psychology
         George Mason University
         m/s 3f5
         4400 University Drive
         Fairfax, VA  22030-4444
         U S A

Deadline for receipt of manuscripts:  1st November 1995.

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Wayne D. Gray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
   & Fellow of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University
m/s 3f5                                EMAIL: gray at gmu.edu
4400 University Drive                  TEL:   +1 (703) 993-1344
Fairfax, VA  22030-4444                FAX:   +1 (703) 993-1359
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