[ACT-R-users] CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

[Mike Schoelles]

  			 COGSCI 2006

      	The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

                 		                  July 26-29
                    	       Vancouver, Canada

             	   CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

            	  http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/cogsci2006/


TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

The tutorials at Cognitive Science 2006 will provide conference
participants with the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and
skills from a broad range of areas in the field of cognitive science.
Tutorial topics will be presented in a taught format and range from
practical guidelines to academic issues and theory. This is the eighth
year that tutorials in this format will be offered.

Tutorial participants will be from a wide range of the cognitive
sciences, but they will be looking for insights into their own areas
and summaries of other areas providing tools, techniques, and results
to use in their own teaching and research.

Tutorials must present well established results, yesterday's results
from your lab are not encouraged. They will tend to involve an
introduction to technical skills or methods (e.g., cognitive modeling
in ACT-R, Bayesian modeling, eyetracking, fMRI, methods of analyzing
qualitative observational data). They are likely to include
substantial review of material.

DURATION: Each tutorial is designed to be a half-day or full-day in
duration.  Half-day tutorials are about 3 hours long (not including
breaks). Full day tutorials are about 6 hours long (not including
breaks). Please indicate the duration of your proposed tutorial in
your application.

AUDIENCE: Most tutorials should be at the introductory graduate school
level or higher. That is, the tutorials should be accessible to
postgraduate students, but should also assume a first degree in one of
the cognitive sciences.

REVIEW PROCESS: Tutorial proposals will be evaluated by the tutorial
committee on the basis of their estimated benefit for prospective
participants and on their fit within the tutorials program as a whole.

Factors to be considered include relevance, importance, and audience
appeal; suitability for presentation in a half-day or full-day tutorial
format; use of presentation methods that offer participants direct
experience with the material being taught; how much they might help
unify cognitive science; teaching a skill or covering a topic that would
not have another outlet; and past experience and qualifications of the
instructors with their tutorial.

Selection is also based on the overall distribution of topics,
approaches (overview, theory, methodology, how-to), audience experience
levels, and specialties of the intended audiences.

PROPOSAL: If you want to submit a proposal, please follow the
instructions at:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/cogsci06/tutorials/

COMPENSATION: A budget of $125 will be awarded for each half-day
tutorial that is taught, $250 for each full-day. If a tutorial has two
or more instructors, the budget will be shared among them. Tutors will
not be charged for attending their own tutorial. Tutors may bring a
helper to the tutorial at no cost.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The purpose of pre-conference workshops is to provide organizers and
participants with an opportunity for an in-depth discussion on a
specific topic important to cognitive science in general. Workshops
can choose to concentrate on emerging research or cross-disciplinary
topics, but can also discuss application issues.

Workshop notes should be assembled by the workshop organizers based on
the input from workshop presenters. The workshop notes should be made
available to workshop participants in printed form by the organizers
themselves. They will use the same format as the proceedings of the
main session of the Cognitive Science Conference, but will be
distributed separately.

DURATION: Each workshop is designed to be a half-day or full-day in
duration.  Half-day workshops are about 3 hours long (not including
breaks). Full day workshops are about 6 hours long (not including
breaks). Please indicate the duration of your proposed workshop in
your application.

REVIEW PROCESS: Each workshop proposal should contain all the
information that the workshop chairs and the program committee need to
judge the importance and quality of the workshop and the interest in
the proposed topic. Each workshop may have one or more designated
organizers and, possibly, a workshop program committee. Workshop
organizers need to set up their own web site with the workshop
materials, to be linked to from the Cognitive Science Conference web
site.

PROPOSAL: If you want to submit a proposal, please follow the
instructions at:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/cogsci06/workshops/

IMPORTANT DATES

February 1, 2006: Submissions due at 5:00pm GMT

March 15, 2006:   Notification of acceptance or rejection

April 15, 2006:   Camera-ready abstract copy due for inclusion in
                   proceedings

TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh)
Michael Schoelles (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Erik M. Altmann (Michigan State University)
Matthew Crocker (Saarland University)
Tom Griffiths (Brown University)
Glenn Gunzelmann (US Air Force)
John Hale (Michigan State University)
Todd Johnson (University of Texas, Houston)
Gary Jones (University of Derby)
Padraic Monaghan (University of York)
Yvette Tenney (BBN Labs)
Richard Young (University of Hertfordshire)

CONTACT ADDRESSES

Frank Keller                                 Michael Schoelles
School of Informatics               Cognitive Science Department
University of Edinburgh          Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2 Buccleuch Place                      110 8th Street
Edinburgh EH8 9LW              	  Troy, NY 12180
United Kingdom                  	  USA
Phone +44-131-650-4407          Phone +1-518-276-3318
Fax +44-131-650-4587           	 Fax +1-518-276-3017

Email address for submissions: keller at inf.ed.ac.uk