[ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops

[Susan Chipman]

       Just a comment that the extreme variability of academic calendars
across various American universities always made it difficult to schedule
ONR meetings, particularly in the early Fall and late Spring.

Susan Chipman

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Richard M Young <r.m.young at acm.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure about other European academic timetables, but a workshop
> too early in the summer would be difficult for the Brits.  For
> example, our academic year (3rd term = approx 2nd semester) ran this
> year until 12 June, and our Board of Examiners meeting was on 1st
> July, so it's only really with July that we can regard the summer
> conference season as starting.
>
> In general, I believe for people from outside N America, the timing
> of the past years has been better: holding the Act-R workshop just
> before some other major conference, such as Cog Sci in years when
> it's in N America.  That makes for a sensible & worthwhile trans-Atlantic
> trip.
>
> Incidentally (though only partly relevant to this email thread), the
> awkwardness of early summer conferences was one of the reasons why
> previous European ICCMs have been held in the spring, not the
> summer.  We do appreciate that that timing is not ideal for American
> academics.
>
> It's an imperfect world ...
>
> ~ Richard
>
> At 00:33 23/07/2009, Mike Byrne wrote:
> >On Jul 18, 2009, at 17:51, Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC
> >wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to see ICCM and the ACT-R workshop adopt alternating
> > > biennial schedules.  Both co-located with CogSci, of course.
> >
> >I vote for this as well, though the rider that it be co-located with
> >CogSci is not necessary for me.
> >
> >In fact, I'd rather see them *not* co-located and be moved to early
> >summer, like late May/early June.  (Actually mid-May would be even
> >better but I understand we'd start running into issues with academic
> >calendars that early.)
> >
> >-Mike
>
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