From ardian.qosja at ge.com  Thu Jan  2 15:55:45 2014
From: ardian.qosja at ge.com (Qosja, Ardian (Amphenol Advanced Sensors))
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:55:45 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
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Hi,
For an PhD dissertation purposes, I do need one or two good references showing a successful implementation of ACT_R to reconfigure a computer screen. In my case the computer is used as HMI in deep water drilling (seawater oil and gas rigs) controlling an BOP mechanism. The controlling COE software is already in place and is an established and leading controlling program. My approach aims for coupling an HRA cognitive and behavioristic (operator) model with the existing COE software.

Thank You,

Ardian Qosja

Amphenol
Advanced Sensors

T (814) 834-5663
E ardian.qosja at ge.com<mailto:ardian.qosja at ge.com> (Amphenol Advanced Sensors)

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From bejohn at us.ibm.com  Fri Jan  3 10:10:06 2014
From: bejohn at us.ibm.com (Bonnie E John)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:10:06 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
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Ardian,
There are several papers that use CogTool to evaluate/redesign user
interfaces (UIs). CogTool is a tool created for UI designers so they can
use cognitive models without having to become psychologists themselves. It
uses ACT-R under-the-hood to produce predictions of usability metrics like
efficiency and discoverability. You can find papers that use CogTool at
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/research/research-publications

In particular, here are some that might be most help to you:

CogTool-Explorer, predicts the success rate of novice users in doing
information-finding tasks on a website they haven't seen before. It shows
that different layouts of the same information lead to different success
rates.
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/publications/cogtool-explorer

CogTool using the Keystroke-Level Model (implemented using ACT-R) to
predict the efficiency of systems after people become skilled in their use.
This paper is about half a dozen projects at IBM that used to CogTool and
these predictions in several different ways. To choose between design
ideas, to assign appropriate staffing, to demonstrate contract compliance,
etc.
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/publications/deploying-cogtool-integrating-quantitative-usability-assessment-real-world-software-dev

A paper showing how visualizations of what the ACT-R model us doing
inspires UI designers to think of batter ways to design the UI.
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/publications/using-cogtool-inspire-design

Here's another paper that is not on the CogTool website, where researchers
from Brown University used CogTool to help redesign a brain mapping system
Modeling Task Performance for a Crowd of Users from Interaction Histories

There are a lot more papers on the CogTool website, with different user
groups (e.g., elders v. younger people), different domains, (e.g., mostly
office work, but also aviation and healthcare), and mobile interfaces as
well as desktop computers.

Have a look. Explore the CogTool site. And let me know if you have any
questions.
Good luck with your work,
Bonnie



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Date:	01/02/2014 04:26 PM
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Hi,
For an PhD dissertation purposes, I do need one or two good references
showing a successful implementation of ACT_R to reconfigure a computer
screen. In my case the computer is used as HMI in deep water drilling
(seawater oil and gas rigs) controlling an BOP mechanism. The controlling
COE software is already in place and is an established and leading
controlling program. My approach aims for coupling an HRA cognitive and
behavioristic (operator) model with the existing COE software.

Thank You,

Ardian Qosja

Amphenol
Advanced Sensors

T (814) 834-5663
E ardian.qosja at ge.com (Amphenol Advanced Sensors)
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From ardian.qosja at ge.com  Thu Jan  2 15:55:45 2014
From: ardian.qosja at ge.com (Qosja, Ardian (Amphenol Advanced Sensors))
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:55:45 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
Message-ID: <FCC2A1A7FAA53C4AAB3F8319102282E80A0C2A@CINURCNA09.e2k.ad.ge.com>

Hi,
For an PhD dissertation purposes, I do need one or two good references showing a successful implementation of ACT_R to reconfigure a computer screen. In my case the computer is used as HMI in deep water drilling (seawater oil and gas rigs) controlling an BOP mechanism. The controlling COE software is already in place and is an established and leading controlling program. My approach aims for coupling an HRA cognitive and behavioristic (operator) model with the existing COE software.

Thank You,

Ardian Qosja

Amphenol
Advanced Sensors

T (814) 834-5663
E ardian.qosja at ge.com<mailto:ardian.qosja at ge.com> (Amphenol Advanced Sensors)

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From bejohn at us.ibm.com  Fri Jan  3 10:10:06 2014
From: bejohn at us.ibm.com (Bonnie E John)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:10:06 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
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Message-ID: <OFF70BDFBB.2AF2AC20-ON85257C55.0051A5C8-85257C55.005352A3@us.ibm.com>


Ardian,
There are several papers that use CogTool to evaluate/redesign user
interfaces (UIs). CogTool is a tool created for UI designers so they can
use cognitive models without having to become psychologists themselves. It
uses ACT-R under-the-hood to produce predictions of usability metrics like
efficiency and discoverability. You can find papers that use CogTool at
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/research/research-publications

In particular, here are some that might be most help to you:

CogTool-Explorer, predicts the success rate of novice users in doing
information-finding tasks on a website they haven't seen before. It shows
that different layouts of the same information lead to different success
rates.
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/publications/cogtool-explorer

CogTool using the Keystroke-Level Model (implemented using ACT-R) to
predict the efficiency of systems after people become skilled in their use.
This paper is about half a dozen projects at IBM that used to CogTool and
these predictions in several different ways. To choose between design
ideas, to assign appropriate staffing, to demonstrate contract compliance,
etc.
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/publications/deploying-cogtool-integrating-quantitative-usability-assessment-real-world-software-dev

A paper showing how visualizations of what the ACT-R model us doing
inspires UI designers to think of batter ways to design the UI.
http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/publications/using-cogtool-inspire-design

Here's another paper that is not on the CogTool website, where researchers
from Brown University used CogTool to help redesign a brain mapping system
Modeling Task Performance for a Crowd of Users from Interaction Histories

There are a lot more papers on the CogTool website, with different user
groups (e.g., elders v. younger people), different domains, (e.g., mostly
office work, but also aviation and healthcare), and mobile interfaces as
well as desktop computers.

Have a look. Explore the CogTool site. And let me know if you have any
questions.
Good luck with your work,
Bonnie



From:	"Qosja, Ardian (Amphenol Advanced Sensors)"
            <ardian.qosja at ge.com>
To:	"act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu"
            <act-r-users at old-act-r.psy.cmu.edu>
Date:	01/02/2014 04:26 PM
Subject:	[ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
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Hi,
For an PhD dissertation purposes, I do need one or two good references
showing a successful implementation of ACT_R to reconfigure a computer
screen. In my case the computer is used as HMI in deep water drilling
(seawater oil and gas rigs) controlling an BOP mechanism. The controlling
COE software is already in place and is an established and leading
controlling program. My approach aims for coupling an HRA cognitive and
behavioristic (operator) model with the existing COE software.

Thank You,

Ardian Qosja

Amphenol
Advanced Sensors

T (814) 834-5663
E ardian.qosja at ge.com (Amphenol Advanced Sensors)
 _______________________________________________
ACT-R-users mailing list
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From fer2 at psu.edu  Sat Jan  4 13:07:44 2014
From: fer2 at psu.edu (Frank Ritter)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:07:44 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModel notes: ICCM15/BRIMS14/outlets/RFPs/TV
	show/Jobs
Message-ID: <14137.CGLKWYGX@psu.edu>

The first announcement is driving this email -- ICCM 2015 will be in
Gronigen, the Netherlands, near April 2015, on its regular (15&21 month)
schedule.  The rest indicate new publication outlets, resources, and jobs
in or related to Cog Sci and in modeling. I have also included an unusual
item, this time in the middle.  I may send this more often with so many
announcements....

If you would like to be removed, please just let me know.  I maintain
it by hand to keep it small.

[Hypertext version available at
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2015/iccm-mailing-jan2014.html]

cheers,

Frank Ritter    frank.e.ritter at gmail.com    http://www.frankritter.com
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1. International Conf. on Cognitive Modeling, April 2015 in Gronigen, NL

2. BRiMS 2014 Call for Papers, due January 6, 2014
   http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2014/

3. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
   http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference_future.html
   submissions due 1 feb 2014

4. BRIMS 2013 Proceedings available online
   http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2013/archives/2013/

5. CMOT special issue on BRIMS 2011 published
   http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterKBip.pdf

6. Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Proceedings online
   http://www.cogsys.org/proceedings/2013

7. BICA 2013  program available online
   http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2013/bica2013program.pdf

8. 6th International Conference on Agents and AI, 6-8 March 2014
   http://www.icaart.org/

9. KOGWIS 2014 call for papers and symposia
   http://www.ccs.uni-tuebingen.de/kogwis14
   Submissions due: 7 May 2014

10. AISB 50th conference, 1-4 April 2014
    http://www.aisb50.org/

11. Fourth ACT-R Spring School and Master Class 2014, April 7-12, 2014
    http://www.ai.rug.nl/actr-springschool/
    applications due 27 jan 2014

11b. Numerous books to review

12. Call for papers: Mental model ascription by intelligent agents, in Interaction Studies
    14 jan 2014 deadline

13. Publication policy for Advances in Cognitive Systems [Journal]
    http://www.cogsys.org/
    http://cogsys.org/pdf/paper-3-2-141.pdf

14. Editor change at J. of Interaction Science, and call for papers
    http://www.journalofinteractionscience.com/

15. IEEE SMC: Transactions on Human-Machine Systems seeking papers
    http://www.ieeesmc.org/publications/index.html

16. Nat. Inst. on Dis. and Rehabilitation Res., for Computer Scientists

17. New Perspectives on the Psychology of Understanding
    http://www.varietiesofunderstanding.com
    Letters of Intent due March 1, 2014

18. Cognitive scientist to co-host TV show

19. Minding Norms, and Social Emotions, two new books
    http://www.frankritter.com/oxford-cma/ICCMFlyer.2.CogArchSeries.pdf

20. Cambridge U. Press, Winter Sale 2013, 20% off.

21. Assistant or Associate Professor, College of IST
      http://recruit.ist.psu.edu

22. [Comp-neuro] Faculty positions at Imperial College London

23. Lecturer and research Position (Assistent/in) in Neuro-Robotics, TU/Chemnitz
    http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/personal/stellen/257030_AA_Rab.php

24. Director of Human MRI Facility, Penn State
    http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/

25. U. of Iowa- Assistant Professor Positions, CS
v   1 jan 2014 applications get full consideration

26. Rowan U., associate professor level in neuroscience

27. Wright State,  Assistant Professor in Human Cognitive Neuroscience

28. Post doctoral position in systems neuroscience and connectivity modeling
    Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

29. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wright State
    https://jobs.wright.edu/postings/7173

30. Postdoc in modeling with Townsend & Wenger

31. Post-PhD Opportunities for US citizens at Fort Belvoir, VA
    deadline 1 feb 2014

32. PhD program, Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences (ACBS), Drexel
    [closed, but will be interesting next year]

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1. International Conf. on Cognitive Modeling, April 2015 in Gronigen, NL

The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling will take place in
April 2015 (approx. date) at RU/Gronigen, in the Netherlands.  The
deadline date for submissions will be in the fall of 2014. Further
announcements will provide more details.

This was announced at the conference in Ottawa this summer.

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2. BRiMS 2014 Call for Papers, due January 6, 2013
   http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2013/

On behalf of the BRIMS Society, we are proud to announce the 23rd
Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation
to be held at the University of California, DC campus in Washington,
DC from April 1 to April 4, 2014. It's our great fortune to co-locate
with the 2014 International Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and
Prediction Conference (SBP14).  Arrangements still need to be made,
but we hope to offer complimentary BRiMS registration for those who
purchase SBP registration. Please visit the BRiMS web site at
http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2014/ where updates will be made
periodically. Please visit SBP's web site at
http://sbp-conference.org/ for their conference details.

The submission deadlines reflect careful thinking on our part about
your needs to have plenty of lead time to plan your submission, while
providing enough time to assemble a BRiMS Proceedings available to all
in time for the conference. This year, BRiMS evolved into a co-Chair
arrangement.  Please welcome Dr. Bill Kennedy of George Mason
University, who joined me as I entered my second year of chairing
duties. Bill will be our in-person administrator and host of the
conference, while I will be the administrative point of contact
leading up to the conference.  Please direct your question to Bill
(wkennedy at gmu.edu) or me (daniel.n.cassenti.civ at mail.mil) depending on
the content of your query.

We look forward to receiving your submission and
to seeing you at the conference!

Best Regards,
Dan Cassenti & Bill Kennedy

The BRIMS Executive Committee invites papers,
posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and
tutorials on topics related to the representation
of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations
in models and simulations. All submissions are
peer-reviewed.

Submissions are handled on-line at: http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2013/

Please see the guidelines on the BRiMS website for format requirements
and content suggestions. If you have any questions about the
submission process or are unable to submit to the web site, please
contact Daniel Cassenti by email (daniel.n.cassenti.civ at mail.mil) or
phone 410-278- 5859.

ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION

The conference will be held at the University of California campus in
Washington, DC [!]. We are pleased to co-locate BRIMS with the 2014
International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural
Modeling, and Prediction.  Please see their web site at
http://sbp-conference.org/ for more information on the conference.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Daniel N. Cassenti, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
William G. Kennedy, George Mason University

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University
David Reitter, Penn State University
Webb Stacy, Aptima, Inc.

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3.  Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
    http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference_future.html
    submissions due 1 feb 2014

All Submissions Due - February 1, 2014

Authors will be notified of decisions by April 1, 2014
Camera-ready copy for inclusion in the proceedings due on May 1, 2014

CogSci 2014 - Cognitive Science Meets Artificial Intelligence: Human
and Artificial Agents in Interactive Contexts
Quebec City, CA
July 23 - July 26, 2014

Website URL for future conference:
  http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference_future.html
----
Highlights Include:

Plenary Speakers: Dedre Gentner, Steven Harnad, & Minoru Asada

13th Rumelhart Prize Recipient: Ray Jackendoff

Symposia: "Foundations of Social Cognition", "Moral Cognition and
Computation", "The Future of Human-Agent Interaction"

Cognitive scientists from around the world are invited to attend
CogSci 2014, the world's premiere annual conference on cognitive
science. The conference represents a broad spectrum of disciplines,
topics, and methodologies from across the cognitive sciences.

In addition to the invited presentations, the program will be filled
with reviewed submissions from the following categories: papers,
symposia, presentation-based talks, member abstracts, tutorials, and
workshops. Submissions must be completed electronically through the
conference submissions web site. Submissions may be in any area of the
cognitive sciences, including, but not limited to, anthropology,
artificial intelligence, computational cognitive systems, cognitive
development, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, education,
linguistics, logic, machine learning, neural networks, philosophy,
robotics and social network studies.

Information regarding the submission process, including opening dates
for the submission website will be posted shortly.
http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/submissions.html

We look forward to seeing you in Quebec City.

Conference Co-Chairs:
Paul Bello, Marcello Guarini, Marjorie McShane, and Brian Scassellati
Cognitive Science Society

***********************************************************
4. BRIMS 2013 Proceedings available online
    http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2013/archives/2013/

The BRIMS 2013 proceedings are available online. They include:

  Modelling the Security Analyst's Role: Effects of Similarity and Past
  Experience on Cyber Attack Detection

  Accounting for the integration of descriptive and experiential
  information in a repeated prisoner's dilemma using an instance-based
  learning model

  Decision Criteria for Model Comparison Using Cross-Fitting

  A Model-based Evaluation of Trust and Situation Awareness in the
  Diner's Dilemma Game

  A concise model for innovation diffusion combining curvature-based
  opinion dynamics and zealotry

  A Trust-Based Framework for Information Sharing Behavior in Command
  and Control Environments

  Advantages of ACT-R over Prolog for Natural Language Analysis

  The Relational Blackboard

  Differences in Performance with Changing Mental Workload as the Basis
  for an IMPRINT Plug-in Proposal

  An ACT-R Model of Sensemaking in a Geospatial Intelligence Task

  Using the Immersive Cognitive Readiness Simulator to Validate the
  ThreatFireTM Belt as an Operational Stressor: A Pilot Study

  Integrated Simulation of Attention Distribution and Driving Behavior

  Modeling trust in multi-agent systems

  Simulating aggregate player behavior with learning behavior trees

  Declarative to procedural tutors: A family of cognitive architecture-based tutors

  Architectural considerations for modeling cognitive-emotional decision making

  Trust definitions and metrics for social media analysis

  Architecture for goal-driven behavior of virtual opponents in fighter
  pilot combat training

  Examining Model Scalability through Virtual World Simulations

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5. CMOT special issue on BRIMS 2011 published
     http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterKBip.pdf

The special issue of omputational Mathematical and Organizational
Theory (CMOT) based on the best papers of BRIMS 2011 has
been published.

Kennedy, G. W., Ritter, F. E., & Best, B. J. (2013). Behavioral
representation in modeling and simulation introduction to CMOT special
issue--BRiMS 2011. Computational Mathematical and Organizational
Theory, 19(3), 283-287.

Abstract: This special issue is similar to our previous special
issues (Kennedy et al. in Comput. Math. Organ. Theory 16(3):217-219,
2010; 17(3):225-228, 2011) in that it includes articles based on the
best conference papers of the, here, 2011 BRiMS Annual
Conference. These articles were reviewed by the editors, extended to
journal article length, and then peer-reviewed and revised before
being accepted. The articles include:

  a new way to evaluate designs of interfaces for safety critical
  systems (Bolton)

  an article that extends our understanding of how to model situation
  awareness (SA) in a cognitive architecture (Rodgers et al.)

  an article that presents elec- troencephalography (EEG) data used to
  derive dynamic neurophysiologic models of engagement in teamwork
  (Stevens et al.), and

  an article that demonstrates using machine learning to generate
  models and an ex- ample application of that tool (Best)

After presenting a brief summary of each paper we will see some
recurrent themes of task analysis, team and individual models, spatial
reasoning, usability issues, and particu- larly that they are models
that interact with each other or systems.

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6. Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Proceedings online
    http://www.cogsys.org/proceedings/2013

Paper titles:

  Fractal Representations and Core Geometry

  A Cognitive Systems Approach to Tailoring Learner Practice

  Understanding Social Interactions Using Incremental Abductive
  Inference

  Changing Minds by Reasoning About Belief Revision: A Challenge for
  Cognitive Systems

  Anomaly-Driven Belief Revision by Abductive Metareasoning

  CRAMm -- Memories for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation
  Activities

  A Cognitive System for Human Manipulation Action Understanding

  Toward Learning High-Level Semantic Frames from Definitions

  On the Representation of Inferences and their Lexicalization

  Towards an Indexical Model of Situated Language Comprehension for
  Real-World Cognitive Agents

  Integrating Meta-Level and Domain-Level Knowledge for Interpretation
  and Generation of Task-Oriented Dialogue

  Three Lessons for Creating a Knowledge Base to Enable Explanation,
  Reasoning and Dialog

  X Goes First: Teaching Simple Games through Multimodal Interaction

  Learning Task Formulations through Situated Interactive Instruction

  Narrative Fragment Creation: An Approach for Learning Narrative
  Knowledge

  Conceptual Models of Structure and Function

  Reasoning from Radically Incomplete Information: The Case of
  Containers

  Am I Really Scared? A Multi-phase Computational Model of Emotions

  Three Challenges for Research on Integrated Cognitive Systems

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7. BICA 2013  program available online
    http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2013/bica2013program.pdf

The program with abstracts for the 2013 meeting in Kiev are available
online.

The web site notes that it will be in Boston in 2014.

****************************************************************
8. 6th International Conference on Agents and AI, 6-8 March 2014
   http://www.icaart.org/

This is a European conference on topics related to cognitive modeling.
Its paper deadline was in September, but is probably a recurrent event.

****************************************************************
9.  KOGWIS 2014 call for papers and symposia
    http://www.ccs.uni-tuebingen.de/kogwis14
    Submissions due: 7 May 2014

==== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA ====

KOGWIS 2014: HOW LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOUR CONSTITUTE COGNITION
12th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science
29th of September - 2nd of October 2014

Submission deadline: 7 May 2014

http://www.ccs.uni-tuebingen.de/kogwis14
----
KogWis 2014 invites submissions of extended abstracts on current work
in cognitive science. Generally *all topics related to cognitive
science* are welcome.

Contributions that address the focus of this meeting, that is,
language and behaviour and the construction of cognition due to
language and behaviour are particularly encouraged.  Submissions will
be sorted by topic and paradigms and will be independently
reviewed. Notifications of acceptance will depend on the novelty of
the research, the significance of the results, and the presentation of
the work.

Submissions will be published in the form of online conference
proceedings.  Submissions of extended abstracts should not exceed 4000
characters (including spaces, references, etc.). Additional figures
may be included. The document should not exceed 4 pages in total.

Call for symposia: Submissions are also invited for symposium
proposals on specific themes in cognitive science.  Symposia should be
interdisciplinary with 4-6 speakers who can offer different
perspectives on the proposed topic.  KogWis cannot provide any
financial support for participants, so all the costs need to be
covered by the participants, including registration.

Submissions of extended abstracts should present
the symposium theme along with moderator and
speakers names and short summaries of the single
contributions.

General chair: Martin V. Butz
Local organizers: Anna Belardinelli, Elisabeth Hein and Jan Kneissler

Anna Belardinelli, PhD
Cognitive Modeling, Department of CS
University of Tuebingen
http://www.wsi.uni-tuebingen.de/lehrstuehle/cognitive-modeling/staff/staff/anna-belardinelli.html

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10.  AISB 50th Convention, 1-4 April 2014
     http://www.aisb50.org/

The AISB 2014 Convention at Goldsmiths, University of London
(hereafter AISB-50) will commemorate both 50 years since the founding
of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour (the AISB) and sixty years since the death of
Alan Turing, founding father of both Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence. The convention will be held at Goldsmiths, University of
London, UK from the 1st to the 4th April 2014, and will follow the
same overall structure as previous conventions. This will include a
set of co-located symposia hosting events that include talks, posters,
panels, discussions, demonstrations, and outreach sessions.

A FULL COLOUR COMMEMORATIVE POSTER:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xoxao5773i6d1t0/AISB50-Poster.pdf

PLENARY SPEAKERS

? Terrence Deacon
? John Searle
? Susan Stepney
? Lucy Suchmann

PUBLIC LECTURES
? John Barnden
? Simon Colton

GENERAL CHAIR: J. Mark Bishop

SECRETARY AND LOCAL CHAIR: Andrew Martin (mr.a.martin at gmail.com)

CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.aisb50.org/

SYMPOSIA CONTACTS:

? A-EYE: An exhibition of art and nature inspired computation: Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie <m.majid at gold.ac.uk>

? AI & Animal welfare: Anna Zamansky <annazam at is.haifa.ac.il>

? AI & Games : Daniela M. Romano <D.Romano at Sheffield.ac.uk>

? Art, Graphics, Perception, Embodiment: modelling the creative mind : Frederic Leymarie <ffl at gold.ac.uk>

? Artificial Ethics & medicine: Steve Torrance <sbtorrance at outlook.com>

? Computational Creativity : Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie <m.majid at gold.ac.uk>

? Computational Intelligence : Edward Keedwell <E.C.Keedwell at exeter.ac.uk>

? Computational Scientific Discovery : Mark.Addis at bcu.ac.uk

? Computing and Philosophy: is computation observer-relative? : Yasemin Erden <yjerden at gmail.com>

? Consciousness without inner models : jkevin.oregan at gmail.com

? Culture of the Artificial : Matthew Fuller <m.fuller at gold.ac.uk>

? Embodied Cognition, Acting and Performance: deirdre.mclaughlin at cssd.ac.uk

? Evolutionary Computing : larry.bull at uwe.ac.uk

? Future of Art & Computing : AnnaDumitriu at hotmail.com>

? History & Philosophy of Programming : Giuseppe Primiero <G.Primiero at mdx.ac.uk>

? Killer robots : Noel Sharkey <noel at dcs.shef.ac.uk>

? Learning, gesture and interaction : Marco Gillies <m.gillies at gold.ac.uk>

? Live algorithms : Tim Blackwell <tim at timblackwell.com>

? New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction: Kerstin Dautenhahn <K.Dautenhahn at herts.ac.uk>

? New perspectives on colour : Kate Devlin <k.devlin at gold.ac.uk>

? Questions, discourse and dialogue: 20 years after Making it Explicit: Rodger Kibble <r.kibble at gold.ac.uk>

? Reconceptualising mental illness: Joel.Parthemore at semiotik.lu.se

? Representation of reality: humans, animals and machines: raffa.giovagnoli at tiscali.it

? Robotics and Language : Katerina Pastra <kpastra at csri.gr>

? Sex with Robots: davidlevylondon at yahoo.com

? Varieties of Enactivism : Mario Eduardo Villalobos <M.E.Villalobos at sms.ed.ac.uk>

? Virtual Worlds & Ecosystems : Frederic Leymarie <ffl at gold.ac.uk>
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11.  Fourth ACT-R Spring School and Master Class 2014, April 7-12, 2014
     http://www.ai.rug.nl/actr-springschool/
     applications due 27 jan 2014

Organizers: Niels Taatgen, Hedderik van Rijn, Jelmer Borst and Stefan Wierda

University of Groningen, Netherlands

April 7-12, 2013 [2014]

ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing
cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time
experiments to driving a car, learning algebra and air traffic
control. Following previous ACT-R events in 2010, 2011 and 2013, the
University of Groningen will host a spring school and master class.

Spring School

Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the
traditional summer school curriculum. The standard curriculum is
structured as a set of six units, of which we will cover five in the
course of the week. Each unit lasts a day and involves a morning
theory lecture, an afternoon discussion session on advanced topics,
and an assignment which participants are expected to complete during
the day. The last day will be devoted to discussions and presentations
by participants. Computing facilities will be provided or attendees
can bring their own laptop on which the ACT-R software will be
installed.

To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited.
Prospective participants should submit an application by January 27,
consisting of a curriculum vitae and a statement of
purpose. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to
ACT-R will strengthen the application, as well as general programming
experience. Applicants will be notified of admission by February 3.

Master Class: Work on your own project

Organized parallel to the spring school, the master class offers the
opportunity for modelers to work on their own projects with guidance
from experienced ACT-R modelers. Note that signing up for the Master
Class assumes some prior ACT-R experience, either through self-study,
or having followed an earlier ACT-R spring or summer school.

Participation in the Master Class is open to all who have some
prerequisite ACT-R experience through prior Summer or Spring
schools. Please also register before January 27th.

PRIM/Actransfer tutorial

For those interested in modeling transfer, a tutorial will be offered
about the new Actransfer extension to ACT-R. See
http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/actransfer.html for more information.

Registrations fees and housing

Registration fee: Euro 200

Housing will be offered in the university guesthouse for approximately
61 Euro /day (single, double rooms are around Euro 78.50, Breakfast is
10 Euro/person).

Registration

To apply to the 2014 Spring School or Master Class, send an email to
Hedderik van Rijn (hedderik at van-rijn.org) and attach the requested
documents before January 27, 2014.

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11b. Numerous books to review

If you would like to review a book, there are several books recently
published that their publishers would give you a copy to facilitate a
review in a magazine or journal.

If you are interested, email me and I'll foward you to the publisher.

Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data [Hardcover]
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa (Eds)
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Analytics-Maximizing-Value-Player/dp/1447147685
http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-1-4471-4768-8

How to build a brain, A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition
Chris Eliasmith, OUP.
http://nengo.ca/build-a-brain

Minding Norms: Mechanisms and dynamics of social order in agent societies
Rosaria Conte, Giulia Andrighetto, and Marco Campenni (eds)
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/minding-norms-9780199812677?

Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact
Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella (eds).
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-emotions-in-nature-and-artifact-978019538764314

Running Behavioral studies with human participants
Ritter, Kim, Morgan, & Carlson, Sage
http://www.sagepub.com/textbooks/Book237263

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12. Call for papers: Mental model ascription by intelligent agents, in Interaction Studies
     14 jan 2014 deadline

Call for Papers

Interaction Studies: Special Issue on Mental Model Ascription by
Intelligent Agents

Mental model ascription, otherwise known as "mindreading", involves
inferring features of another human or artificial agent that cannot be
directly observed, such as that agent's beliefs, plans, goals,
intentions, personality traits, mental and emotional states, and
knowledge about the world. This capability is an essential
functionality of intelligent agents if they are to engage in
sophisticated collaborations with people. The computational modeling
of mindreading offers an excellent opportunity to explore the
interactions of cognitive capabilities, such as high-level perception
(including language understanding and vision), theory of mind,
decision-making, inferencing, reasoning under uncertainty, plan
recognition and memory management. Contributions are sought that will
advance our understanding of mindreading, with priority being given to
algorithmic and implemented (or under implementation) approaches that
address the practical necessity of computing prerequisite inputs. This
volume was inspired by successful workshops at CogSci 2012 (Modeling
the Perception of Intentions) and CogSci 2013 (Mental Model Ascription
by Language-Enabled Intelligent Agents).

The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2014. Submission
requirements and instructions can be found at
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/is/submission. Please address
questions to the special edition editor, Marge McShane, at
mcsham2 at rpi.edu.

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13. Publication policy for Advances in Cognitive Systems [Journal]
    http://www.cogsys.org/
    http://cogsys.org/pdf/paper-3-2-141.pdf

Advances in Cognitive Systems (http://www.cogsys.org/) is a new
electronic journal, now in its second year, that publishes
contributions in the original spirit of AI, which aimed to explain the
mind in computational terms and reproduce the entire range of human
cognition in computational artifacts.

Advances in Cognitive Systems is associated with an annual conference
of the same name, the first instance of which took place last December.
The second volume of the journal served as the electronic proceedings
of that meeting. I am writing to tell about a new policy that alters the
relationship between journal and conference slightly:

- Authors are still welcome to submit papers for publication either
   to the electronic journal or to the annual conference.

- If a journal submission (16 pages) is received at least one month
   before the conference deadline and is accepted for publication,
   its authors will be invited to present a talk at the conference.

- If a long submission (16 pages) to the conference is accepted
   for presentation at the meeting, it may either be included in the
   annual proceedings or be invited to appear in the journal.

- If a short submission (8 pages) to the conference is accepted
   for presentation at the meeting, it will be included in the annual
   proceedings but not in the journal.

This policy should spread submissions across the year, giving
more flexibility to authors and reducing the load on reviewers while
letting more researchers present their results at the conference.

You can find more details at http://www.cogsys.org/instructions/ and
in the call for papers to the Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive
Systems, which should be available shortly.

Sincerely,

Pat Langley, Editor
Advances in Cognitive Systems

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14. Editor change at J. of Interaction Science, and call for papers
    http://www.journalofinteractionscience.com/

Dr. Ray Adams has resigned as editor in chief.  The editorial director
at Springer, Beverley Ford, asked me to serve as the sole
editor-in-chief.  It is not an easy job to fill Ray's shoes but with
the help of colleagues and great editors, we are working as a team and
we are up to the job.

The good news is that after a slow start, JoIS is very close to the
first issue.

As soon as one more paper has been accepted after peer review, we will
be online.  We are always looking for submissions and expecially right
now: Would you share the journal address with potential authors ?

Many thanks!

Best wishes,
Susanne

Professor Susanne Bahr and I would like to tell you that our dynamic,
new "high-impact" journal, the "Journal of Interaction Science" will
be published by Springer next year.

We would also like to invite you to contribute a paper to our Journal,
possibly on how to introduce more rigour into interaction design.

The Journal of Interaction Science (JoIS) has a unique focus to
promote research based on:

Scientific approaches to interaction design, The use of interaction
paradigms for fundamental research in human and computer centred
sciences The use of computer science to support scientific research.
On the one hand, our scope is narrowly focused specifically on
promoting scientific HCI; on the other hand, it is broadly focused,
being designed to attract a wide audience and research by the large
number of human-centred scientists who do not consider current HCI
journals to be sufficiently relevant to them. Interaction science and
focuses on the integration of the study of people, with that of
artifacts and the sciences involved.

We are looking for significant, scientific papers that report
empirical results, substantial new theories, methodological
innovations and important meta-analyses.

With best wishes,

Susanne Bahr

Gisela Susanne Bahr, Associate Professor Florida Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Experimental Psychology - Cognition
ABD Ph.D. Computer Sciences
Editor in Chief  Journal of Interaction Science
School of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975
gbahr at fit.edu,  321.674.8104

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15. IEEE SMC: Transactions on Human-Machine Systems seeking papers
    http://www.ieeesmc.org/publications/index.html

IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society has a journal, IEEE SMC:
Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.  This used to be IEEE SMC:
Part C: Applications & Reviews, but has recently been rebadged.

It is asking its editorial board to ask others to submit high quality
papers.  So, I'm noting to you that many of you will find that your
research, I believe, fits into this journal.

Details are available at:

  http://www.ieeesmc.org/publications/index.html

  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/thms

[If you have questions, please PM me, email me, see me in the hall, or
call. -Frank]

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16. Nat. Inst. on Dis. and Rehabilitation Res., for Computer Scientists

[There may be some proposal calls in here.  This announcement is not
itself a call, but a pointer to an area.  I have a lot of time for
Clayton, and while I don't know about this much, I know him and there
is at least an audience if not money.]

From: "Lewis, Clayton (Contractor)" <Clayton.Lewis at ed.gov>
To: Clayton Lewis <clayton.lewis at colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 16:09:49 -0500
Subject: NIDRR for Computer Scientists

In 2011 I began working as a consultant to the National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), helping to develop an
initiative on cloud computing for people with disabilities (NIDRR
provided early funding for the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure,
gpii.net, of which you may have heard). In that role I've become aware
that there are significant needs and opportunities for computer
science research in support of NIDRR's goals, but not many computer
scientists know about NIDRR and its programs.

I'm writing to you to call your attention to these opportunities,
including a brand new announcement on funding for research on
inclusive cloud and web computing, . I've attached a writeup, " NIDRR
for Computer Scientists". Please pass it along to any colleagues who
may be interested.

NIDRR for Computer Scientists.

What is NIDRR? NIDRR (the National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research) is an agency within the US Department of
Education that funds about $110M of research per year (of course this
amount varies) aimed at improving the lives of people with
disabilities.  Why am I writing this? I'm a long-time computer science
faculty member at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2011 I began
working as a consultant to NIDRR, helping to develop an initiative on
cloud computing for people with disabilities (NIDRR provided early
funding for the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure, gpii.net, of
which you may have heard). In that role I've become aware that there
are significant needs and opportunities for computer science research
in support of NIDRR's goals, but not many computer scientists know
about NIDRR and its programs.

Why should computer scientists be interested in NIDRR? As information
and communication technologies become important in more aspects of
life, and as the ability of these technologies to provide useful
assistance grows, there are more and more opportunities for computer
science research to contribute to NIDRR's programs. Cloud computing,
data integration and data analytics for service effectiveness
improvement, recognition technology, social software, accessible and
autonomous transportation systems, natural language processing, and
configurable user interface technology all have a role in enabling
people with disabilities to participate in society more fully and
independently.  In a typical year NIDRR funds a wide range of
projects, from multi-year research and engineering centers, aimed at
designated aspects of disability research, to smaller "field
initiated" projects proposed by investigators. If you are not already
active in disability research, your chances of success will likely be
greater if you collaborate with other investigators who have knowledge
of and experience in disability research, though you are free to apply
on your own. Many of NIDRR's peer reviewers are disability
researchers, and of course must judge that proposals are well
conceived as contributions to that field.  Proposals that represent
excellent computer science, but are weak in connecting to the needs of
people with disabilities, are unlikely to be competitive.

Collaboration can solve this problem.  You could develop
such collaboration in more than one way. You could approach local
colleagues who have the necessary experience, or you could reach out
to investigators nationally who work on problems to which the
computing technology on which you work could be relevant. For
NIDRR-funded projects, current and completed, there is a convenient
search facility at http://www.naric.com/?q=en/ProgramDatabase, where
you can find projects whose descriptions mention your institution or
your state, or particular topics of interest to you. Here are some
professional associations that publish papers on technology and
disability that you can explore to see who is doing what on the
national and international scene:

ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS),
proceedings searchable at
http://dl.acm.org/sig.cfm?id=SP1530&CFID=155317526&CFTOKEN=59939155SIGACCESS;

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and IEEE Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics Society, publications searchable in the IEEE
Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org);

The Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association of North
America (RESNA), proceedings at
http://www.resna.org/conference/proceedings/index.dot

Another good way to familiarize yourself with NIDRR and its programs
is to serve as a reviewer.  NIDRR is always looking for peer reviewers
with a variety of specific subject-matter expertise. See
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/nidrr/nidrrpeerreview.html
for more information.

FAQ

How can I find out more about NIDRR funding programs? NIDRR has a nice
Web resource for potential applicants at
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/nidrr/applyingforanidrrgrant.html.  This
includes a summary of its programs, and suggestions about how to track
new funding opportunities as they arise.

What NIDRR programs are likely to be of most interest to computer
scientists? Field Initiated Projects can address any of a wide range
of issues relating to people with disabilities, including development
of new technologies, employment, independent living, and medical
rehabilitation, for any disability populations, with a wide range of
research approaches.  Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects
are invited to address particular topic areas, or "priorities", and an
increasing number of these include topics in computer science. NIDRR
also participates in the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research)
program.

How do I apply? The Web resource mentioned above,
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/nidrr/applyingforanidrrgrant.html , has
detailed information for applicants, including tips on writing a
strong proposal.

How does NIDRR evaluate proposals? NIDRR uses a peer review
process. Unlike NSF, but like NIH, NIDRR evaluation is based on
numeric scoring guided by a rubric, so it is very important that all
proposal requirements are carefully addressed. Here, too,
collaboration with an experienced disability researcher can be a big
help.

Being at NIDRR has made me a big fan of the agency and the
contributions its grantees have made and are making. I hope you'll
investigate the opportunities NIDRR offers for computer scientists to
participate in this important and satisfying work. Please let me know
if I can help.

Sincerely, Clayton Lewis, NIDRR Consultant

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17. New Perspectives on the Psychology of Understanding
    http://www.varietiesofunderstanding.com
    Letters of Intent due March 1, 2014

New Perspectives on the Psychology of Understanding. Fordham
University, with the support of a grant from the John Templeton
Foundation, invites proposals for the "New Perspectives on the
Psychology of Understanding" funding initiative. Our aim is to
encourage research from both new and established scholars working on
projects related to understanding in its many forms.

This $1.2 million RFP is intended to support empirical work in
cognitive, developmental, educational, and other areas of psychology.
Proposals can request between $50,000 and $225,000 for projects not to
exceed two years in duration. We intend to make 7-8 awards.

Timeline

  Letters of Intent due March 1, 2014
  Invited full proposals due April 15, 2014

For more information, visit: www.varietiesofunderstanding.com

All questions should be directed to: psychology at varietiesofunderstanding.com

Psychology Director - Tania Lombrozo, Assistant Professor of
Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

Project Leader - Stephen Grimm, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Fordham University

Research begins July 1, 2014

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18. Cognitive scientist to co-host TV show [!]

http://bellmediapr.ca/Network/Discovery-World/Press/STEPHEN-HAWKINGS-BRAVE-NEW-WORLD-Glimpses-into-the-Future-Nov-15-on-Discovery-World-

Science is about to change the world. [!]  Professor Stephen Hawking
examines cutting-edge breakthroughs and their implications for the
future in STEPHEN HAWKING'S BRAVE NEW WORLD. The six-part, original
Canadian series returns for a second season, premiering Friday,
November 15 at 8 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT on Discovery World. Hawking is
joined by a crack team of scientists - including Dr. Carin Bondar and
Professor Chris Eliasmith from Canada, Dr. Daniel Kraft from the U.S.,
and Professor Jim Al-Khalili and Dr. Aarathi Prasad from the U.K. They
travel the world to investigate the latest innovations, from gecko
skin-like material with adhesive qualities that mimic Spiderman's
ability to scale buildings; to realistic digital avatars and the
latest gaming technology that will change the face of the
entertainment industry; to a 3D printer that can generate live human
tissue; and a Canadian innovation using submarines for deep space
training.

[Haven't had something this to announce before. These aired in the
 Fall in Canada. There are several more episodes, and will appear, I
 believe, in the US (Scienc Discovery) and around the world (National
 Geographic Channel), and other locations later.]

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19. Minding Norms, and Social Emotions, two new books
      http://www.frankritter.com/oxford-cma/ICCMFlyer.2.CogArchSeries.pdf

Two new books have been published in the Oxford Series on Cognitive
Models and Architectures:

  Minding Norms: Mechanisms and dynamics of social order in agent
  societies Rosaria Conte, Giulia Andrighetto, and Marco Campenni (eds)
  http://global.oup.com/academic/product/minding-norms-9780199812677

  Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy
  Marsella (eds).
  http://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-emotions-in-nature-and-artifact-9780195387643

A flyer describing them and the series, offering a 20% discount
   http://www.frankritter.com/oxford-cma/ICCMFlyer.2.CogArchSeries.pdf

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20. Cambridge U. Press, Winter Sale 2013, 20% off.
      http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/academic_discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=OURWINTERBEST

Cambridge U. Press also has a 20% discount going.

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21. Assistant or Associate Professor, College of IST
    http://recruit.ist.psu.edu

The College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania
State University is a College that emphasizes a) systems-level
thinking to approach global, societal problems, b) multiple
methodologies in the pursuit of interdisciplinary research and design,
and c) active, collaborative learning to support transformative
teaching. To learn more about our vision, mission, goals, structure,
faculty and students, please go to http://ist.psu.edu. We are
searching to fill multiple positions at the Assistant or Associate
Professor level in our ranks of tenure-track faculty members, who will
assist our college in attaining its goals in education, research and
service to the community. The College has strengths in six key areas
including: 1) Computational Informatics and Science; 2) Organizational
Informatics; 3) Social Policy, Economics and Informatics; 4) Human-
Computer Interaction; 5) Cognition and Networked Intelligent Systems
and 6) Security, Privacy and Informatics.

We seek applicants who show clear evidence that they will become or
are leading scholars and premier teachers in their fields and are
interested in being part of a vibrant, civil and diverse academic
community. Although we welcome applications from a broad variety of
areas that match the research interests in the college, we are
particularly interested in applicants who would like to pursue
research and teaching in the following areas: 1) Enterprise
Architecture; 2) Biomedical/Health Informatics; 3) Computational
Informatics; 4) Security & Risk Analysis. We are interested in
applicants who approach these areas from either a social, cognitive,
or computational perspective or a combination of these perspectives.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their curriculum vitae,
summary of research and teaching plans, as well as the contact
information of four persons who will write letters of recommendations
at http://recruit.ist.psu.edu. For questions, please contact
Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, Faculty Search Committee Chair, 313F IST
Building, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-6823 or via
email facsearch at ist.psu.edu.

Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2013
[informal enquiries to David Reitter or to me]

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22. [Comp-neuro] Faculty positions at Imperial College London

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:32:13 +0000
From: Simon Schultz <s.schultz at imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: [Comp-neuro] Faculty positions at Imperial College London

There is currently an open round for Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (US
equivalent Assistant/Associate Professors) in the Department of
Bioengineering at Imperial College London. I would like to encourage
applications in the area of neurotechnology, and particularly
translational/clinical neurotechnology, to apply for this round. We
have recently been awarded a ?10M EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
in Neurotechnology, which will award approximately fourteen 4-year PhD
studentships per year.  Successful faculty applicants in this area
would become members of the new Imperial College Centre for
Neurotechnology.
----
Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (open call), Imperial College, Bioengineering

Imperial College London - Department of Bioengineering
Lecturer salary range ?45,040 to ?50,190 pa
Senior Lecturer minimum salary ?55,340 pa

Due to rapid growth and the strategic importance of the discipline of
bioengineering at Imperial College London, the Department of
Bioengineering wishes to appoint a number of individuals at Lecturer
or Senior Lecturer grade. This is an open call in which we are
looking for outstanding candidates in any field of Bioengineering.
Additionally, as the department is making multiple appointments for
strategic reasons, it particularly welcomes applications from
individuals working in one of the two areas listed below:

 * Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering
 * Bioengineering of cancer detection,
   diagnosis, pathogenesis and/or treatment

Candidates should have an advanced degree (PhD or equivalent) in an
appropriate science or engineering discipline and will have
demonstrated an ability to generate and execute research at an
internationally-leading level. Evidence of teaching at all levels is
also required.

Professor Anthony Bull:
telephone 020 7594 5186

Closing date: 05 January 2014.

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23. Lecturer and research Position (Assistent/in) in Neuro-Robotics, TU/Chemnitz
     http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/personal/stellen/257030_AA_Rab.php

Lecturer and research Position (Assistent/in) in Neuro-Robotics
Lecturer and research Position (Akademische/r Assistent/in) in Neuro-Robotics

The position is available at Chemnitz University of Technology in the
Department of Computer Science within the Professorship of Artificial
Intelligence. It requires teaching and research.  Teaching is required
about 4 hours per week within the semester and involves lectures and
exercises in robotics and neuro-robotics as well as exercises in
artificial intelligence or image processing.

The candidate is expected to contribute to research in neuro-robotics,
e.g. to develop brain inspired models of motor or cognitive processes
run on robotic platforms. He or she should have a PhD in computer
science or related fields, e.g.  electrical engineering. Prior
experience in robotics or neuro-computational modeling is
advantageous. Good English language skills are necessary. Good German
is initially not required, but the candidate should have an interest
to learn the German language.

[This is true, it is useful to know some or all German or a German
when living in Chemnitz!]

We offer a stimulating international and interdisciplinary
environment. Available and recently ordered robotic platforms include
an iCub head, two Nao, a Koala with stereo pan-tilt vision and several
K-Junior V2 robots.

The salary is according to German standards (E 13 TV-L or A 13). The
position is initially for 4 years, but can be extended. The starting
date is April 2014 or earlier.

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the state of Saxony and close to
scenic mountains. Major cities nearby are Leipzig and Dresden with a
rich tradition of music and culture.

Further details (in German) can be found here:
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/personal/stellen/257030_AA_Rab.php

Applications should be sent by email (preferably in PDF format) to
(fred.hamker at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de).

The deadline was on 30.09.2013, but applications will be considered
until the position is filled.  In addition to a CV the candidate
should provide an overview of his planned research for the next 4
years.

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24. Director of Human MRI Facility, Penn State
    http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/

NEUROSCIENCE, Director of Human MRI Facility

The Department of Psychology at Penn State, http://psych.la.psu.edu/
is recruiting for a neuroscientist (associate professor or professor)
who also will serve as Director of the Human MRI Facility at the
Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, or SLEIC
(http://www.imaging.psu.edu).

The substantive focus of research is open; expertise in advanced data
analysis techniques for fMRI data is welcome, but not required. The
Director will affiliate with one or more of the Department's graduate
program areas (cognitive, developmental, social, clinical, and
industrial/organizational psychology). Rich opportunities exist for
collaboration across the department and across the campus, including a
range of centers such as the Center for Language Science
(http://cls.psu.edu/), the Child Study Center
(http://csc.psych.psu.edu/), and the Center for Brain, Behavior, and
Cognition (http://www.huck.psu.edu/center/brain-behavior-cognition).
The Director position is co-funded by the Social Science Research
Institute (http://www.ssri.psu.edu/).

Candidates are expected to have a record of excellence in research and
teaching, and a history of external funding. Review of applications
for the position begins immediately and will continue until the
position is filled.  Candidates should submit a letter of application
including concise statements of research and teaching interests, a CV,
and selected (p) reprints. Letters of recommendation will be requested
from applicants selected as finalists.

Electronic submission is strongly preferred; please submit materials
at http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/ If unable to submit
electronically, mail materials to the Neuroscience Faculty Search
Committee - Box A, Department of Psychology, Penn State, University
Park, PA 16802. Questions regarding the application process and the
position can be emailed to Judy Bowman, jak8 at psu.edu and questions
regarding the position can be sent to Sheri Berenbaum sab31 at psu.edu,
Chair.  We especially encourage applications from individuals of
diverse backgrounds. Employment will require successful completion of
background check(s) in accordance with University policies.  Penn
State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the
diversity of its workforce.

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25. U. of Iowa- Assistant Professor Positions, CS
    1 jan 2014 applications get full consideration

Pending final budget approval, the Computer Science Department seeks
three tenure-track faculty at the level of assistant professor
starting August of 2014 as part of a new institution-wide initiative
in informatics. The new initiative is intended to strengthen expertise
and infrastructure in informatics, more specifically, data analytics,
systems software, machine learning, theory and algorithms, embedded
systems, networks and smart sensors, computer graphics and
visualization as well as areas that bridge core informatics to other
disciplines.  Areas of particular interest in this first round of
hiring include i) machine learning, ii) data science and
visualization, and iii) device and network centric
software. Applications received by January 1, 2014, are assured of
full consideration.

Education Requirement:

Candidates must hold a PhD in computer science, informatics, or a
closely related discipline.  Appointments will be made within the
Computer Science Department, which offers BA, BS, MCS, and PhD degrees
in computer science, and BA and BS degrees in Informatics.

Required Qualifications:

Duties include conducting externally funded research in the
candidate's area of expertise, teaching undergraduate and graduate
computer science and/or informatics courses, supervising graduate
student research, and making service contributions to the Department,
the College, the University, and the discipline. Successful candidates
must demonstrate potential for research and teaching excellence in the
environment of a major research university, and will be expected to
participate in collaborative research as part of the interdisciplinary
informatics initiative.

Desirable Qualifications:

Demonstrated interest in solving interdisciplinary problems, the
ability to work with interdisciplinary teams, and prior teaching
experience.

Both the Department and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are
strongly committed to gender and ethnic diversity; the strategic plans
of the University, College, and Department reflect this
commitment. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Applications
should contain a CV, research and teaching statements, and three
letters of recommendation. Apply at
http://vinci.cs.uiowa.edu/recruit

From: Juan Pablo Hourcade <jpablo at ACM.ORG>
To: CHI-JOBS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

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26. Rowan U., associate professor level in neuroscience

[From a former PSU grad student:]

I am now a faculty member at Rowan University (in Glassboro, NJ -
about 30 minutes south of Philadelphia).

We are actively searching for an associate professor level
neuroscience person.  The ad will also accommodate an assistant
professor level person.

The job description is located at:
http://rowanuniversity.hodesiq.com/jobs/assistant-associate-professor-neuroscience-school-of-biomedical-sciences-glassboro-new-jersey-job-3974550

Please distribute it among your former students.  (In the coming
years, I anticipate that we will be searching for again for
neuroscience people).

Tabbetha A. Dobbins     dobbins at rowan.edu   856-256-4366
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Rowan University

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27. Wright State,  Assistant Professor in Human Cognitive Neuroscience

The Psychology Department at Wright State University seeks applicants
for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Human Cognitive
Neuroscience.

Please forward the following link to eligible candidates.
http://science-math.wright.edu/psychology/about/faculty-search-in-human-cognitive-neuroscience

Thank you!

Ion Juvina, Ph.D., ion.juvina at wright.edu
Psychology, Wright State University
http://www.wright.edu/cosm/departments/psychology/faculty/juvina.html
http://psych-scholar.wright.edu/ijuvina/

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28. Post doctoral position in systems neuroscience and connectivity modeling
     Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

Post doctoral position in systems neuroscience and connectivity modeling.

Funding sources:  PA; Tobacco Settlement Fund; Social Science
Research Institute, University Park
Duration: 2 years

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow in the area of
clinical/cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging, and network
modeling. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with
Dr. Hillary in Psychology, Dr. Reka Albert of Physics and Dr.  Peter
Molenaar in Human Development and Family Studies focusing on time
series analysis, graph theory, and connectivity modeling of human
brain imaging data (high density EEG, BOLD fMRI).

The primary responsibility of this position is to facilitate ongoing
research examining neural plasticity after severe traumatic brain
injury in humans. There is also keen interest for this position to
support the development of novel methods for understanding plasticity
from a systems neuroscience perspective.  This includes prospective
data collection as well as analysis of existing data sets. Current lab
goals aim to integrate: 1) signal processing (i.e., non-stationarity
in time series data; cross-frequency coupling), 2) large scale
connectivity analysis (e.g., graph theory), 3) machine learning, and
4) novel methods isolating regions of interest.

A Doctorate (M.D. and/or Ph.D.) degree is required or anticipated in
the calendar year.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
and a background in computational modeling (broadly defined) is
required and programming experience is preferred.

Please send a CV, cover letter, and the names and contact information
for three references to fhillary at psu.edu and make sure to attach a [CV?].

Contact:

  fhillary at psu.edu
  Frank G. Hillary, PhD
  Associate Professor of Psychology

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29. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wright State
      https://jobs.wright.edu/postings/7173

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Assistant in Human Factors
in Surgical Simulation and Training Department of Biomedical,
Industrial and Human Factors Engineering Wright State University

We are seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral research associates and
a research assistant to perform research in surgical simulation and
training. This multidisciplinary research involves engineers and
physicians from Wright State University, Miami Valley Hospital, and
other medical institutions in Ohio.  Successful candidates will hold
one-year appointments, renewable pending availability of funds.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Qualifications:

1. Earned Ph.D. degree in human factors engineering, experimental
psychology, biomedical engineering, computer science, or equivalent,
with an interest in medical devices and systems design, virtual
reality simulation, haptics, and/or human performance evaluation and
training.  2. Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
on research projects.  3. Excellent communication skills, both verbal
and written.  4. Experience in conducting research with human and
animal subjects, using both quantitative and qualitative
methodologies, and the IRB and IACUC process.  5. Experience with
virtual or augmented reality, haptic devices, HCI and UI design,
programming in C, C++, OpenGL, and statistical data analysis packages
such as SAS, SPSS, or R.  6. Ability to prioritise tasks, manage team
members, and disseminate results in a timely manner.

Responsibilities:

1. Conduct literature review.  2. Conduct field studies and controlled
laboratory experiments in the hospital operating room, animal labs,
and simulation labs.  3. Perform task analysis, cognitive task
analysis, work domain analysis, etc. of the surgical environment and
of emerging surgical techniques.  4. Manage project activities and
team members 5. Assist in writing grant proposals and developing
research ideas.  6. Develop and design data acquisition apparatus and
measurement protocols.  7. Co-author conference papers and
peer-reviewed journal papers.

To submit an application: https://jobs.wright.edu/postings/7173

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30. Postdoc in modeling with Townsend & Wenger

The Laboratory for Mathematical Psychology at Indiana University (Jim
Townsend) and the Visual Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of
Oklahoma (Michael Wenger) seek a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive
modeling and experimental psychology.  This position is funded by the
National Science Foundation. This person will be in residence at
Indiana University and will be responsible for assisting Drs.
Townsend and Wenger on a three-year project titled "Building a
Unified Theory-Driven Methodology for Identification of Elementary
Cognitive Systems."  Duties will include overseeing graduate
students, undergraduate RAs, and technical assistants; planning and
carrying out experiments; data analysis; model testing; and preparing
manuscripts for publication.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant field; background in
cognitive modeling, mathematical statistics, and experimental
behavioral science; demonstrated scientific expertise, with
publications in refereed journals; extensive experience in
experimental design and development; ability to create quantitative
models of cognitive processing; solid programming skills, preferably
with R, Matlab, and Python; experience writing grants and manuscripts;
ability to work and lead in a team environment.; ability to work
independently on designated projects.; and demonstrated interpersonal
skills.

The position begins as soon as it is filled and is a one-year
appointment. Renewals for a second and third year are possible and
are contingent on availability of funds, satisfactory performance,
acceptable progress in carrying out the assigned duties, and mutual
agreement. This is a 100% appointment. Initial salary is $40,000/year.

Please submit a cover letter including a statement of career goals
(one paragraph), curriculum vitae, publications, and contact
information of three references.  Please send these materials to:
Michael Wenger, (mjw327 at cornell.edu) / (michael.j.wenger at ou.edu)
Center for Applied Social Research, The University of Oklahoma, 3100
Monitor Avenue, Suite 100, Norman OK 73019.

M. J. Wenger, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850

Department of Psychology
Graduate Program in Cellular and Behavioral Neurobiology
The University of Oklahoma
Norman OK 73019

phone: (405) 325-3846
e-mail: michael.j.wenger at ou.edu / mjw327 at cornell.edu
web: https://sites.google.com/site/ouvnlab

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31. Post-PhD Opportunities for US citizens at Fort Belvoir, VA
      deadline 1 feb 2014

We are currently looking for four USA citizens with specific technical
expertise to place them at Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA,
located in Fort Belvoir within the next few months. Candidates must be
eligible for attaining a security clearance. The positions are in
Thrust Areas 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Post-Doctoral Research PIPELINE for Fellows Program

The objective of this fellowship program is to establish and sustain a
long-term process through which Penn State University will develop and
execute a Post- Doctoral Research PIPELINE for Fellows Program to
address critical scientific, technology and engineering needs for
reducing the threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).  This
project will enable DTRA to utilize mission-critical expertise
possessed by highly qualified faculty and graduate students (nearing
completion of their degree) who hold doctoral or terminal professional
degrees in relevant scientific, technical and engineering
disciplines. Post-Doctoral / Masters Fellows will be selected based
upon their responsive ability to enhance the joint DTRA-Strategic
Partnership mission requirements.  Key science and technology skills
include: nuclear and radiation physics; weapons engineering;
structural, electrical and mechanical engineering; broad-based
nano-technological engineering and applications; weapons effects and
system response technologies; physics, chemistry and biological
sciences related to detection, characterization and destruction of WMD
materials; medical and pharmaceutical sciences; information
technology, modeling, data visualization and advanced computational
sciences; social, adversarial and behavioral modeling, science and
analysis.

[Email jbm18 at psu.edu for an application, some hard science background
required, but this is in my experience, more looking for intelligence
in the applicant than calculus, per se]

Application deadline is 02/01/2014 by email.

Further Details

For qualified candidate, this opportunity would provide the following
to a US citizen, capable of obtaining a security clearance at the
Secret level, to spend one year working at DTRA (Fort Belvior):

 $83,664 annual salary, includes a $1,000 monthly living allowance

 $6,000 Domestic Travel allowance

Specifically, the Research and Development Directorate, Basic and
Applied Sciences Department (J9-BA) is looking to fill one position in
each of the following thrust areas:

TA2 = Cognitive and Information Science: Description: The basic
science of cognitive and information science results from the
convergence of computer, information, mathematical, network,
cognitive, and social science. This research thrust expands our
understanding of physical and social networks and advances knowledge
of adversarial intent with respect to the acquisition, proliferation,
and potential use of WMD. The methods may include analytical,
computational or numerical, or experimental means to integrate
knowledge across disciplines and improve rapid processing of
intelligence and dissemination of information.  Education: The
candidate should have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/Physics.  The
candidate should have a strong background in power systems and control
theory. Knowledge of nuclear weapons effects a plus. [!]

[this has been filled by information science in the past, and relvent
BSEE to cogsci might find the other positions attainable]

TA3 = Science for Protection: Description Basic science for protection
involves advancing knowledge to protect life and life-sustaining
resources and networks.  Protection includes threat containment,
decontamination, threat filtering, and shielding of systems. The
concept is generalized to include fundamental investigations that
reduce consequences of WMD, assist in the restoration of
life-sustaining functions and support forensic science.  Education:
The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences such as
electrical engineering, materials science, nuclear physics, solid
state physics or related discipline. A background including coursework
or research in nuclear science is desired

TA 4 = Science to Defeat WMD: Description: Basic science to defeat WMD
involves furthering the understanding of explosives, their detonation
and problems associated with accessing the target WMDs. This research
thrust includes the creation of new energetic molecules/materials that
enhance the defeat of WMDs, the improvement of modeling, and
simulation of these materials and various phenomena that affect
success and estimate the impact of defeat actions, and investigation
of novel methods that may yield order-of-magnitude improvements in
energy and energy release rate.  Education: The candidate should have
a PhD in Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics,
Chemical Physics, Computational Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or
Materials Engineering.

TA5 = Science to Secure WMD: Description: Basic science to support
securing WMD includes: (a) environmentally responsible innovative
processes to neutralize chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear,
or explosive (CBRNE) materials and components; (b) discovery of
revolutionary means to secure components and weapons; and (c) studies
of scientific principles that lead to novel physical or other tags and
methods to monitor compliance and disrupt proliferation pathways. The
identification of basic phenomena that provide verifiable controls on
materials and systems also helps arms control.  Education: The
candidate should have a Ph.D. in one of the fields of physical or life
sciences.

Jan Mahar Sturdevant, jbm18 at psu.edu
Professor of Practice
College of IST, Penn State

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32. PhD program, Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences (ACBS), Drexel
      [closed, but will be interesting next year]

From: Chris Sims <Chris.Sims at drexel.edu>
To: "cvnet at mail.ewind.com" <cvnet at mail.ewind.com>, comp-neuro at neuroinf.org,
        visionlist at visionscience.com

The Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences (ACBS) program at Drexel
University invites applications for Ph.D. students to begin in the
Fall of 2014.  Faculty research interests in the ACBS program span the
full range from basic to applied science in Cognitive Psychology,
Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cognitive Engineering, with particular
faculty expertise in computational modeling and
electrophysiology. Accepted students will work closely with their
mentor in a research-focused setting, housed in a newly-renovated,
state-of-the-art facility featuring spacious graduate student offices
and collaborative workspaces. Graduate students will also have the
opportunity to collaborate with faculty in Clinical Psychology, the
School of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, the College of
Computing and Informatics, the College of Engineering, the School of
Medicine, and the University's new Expressive and Creative Interaction
Technologies (ExCITe) Center.

Specific faculty members seeking graduate students, and possible
research topics are below.

* Chris Sims, Drexel Laboratory for Adaptive Cognition
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~crs346/
  - Visual memory and perceptual expertise
  - Decision-making under uncertainty and learning from feedback
  - Sensorimotor control and coordination
  - Computational models of cognition

* Dan Mirman, Language and Cognitive Dynamics Laboratory
http://www.danmirman.org/
  - Recognition, comprehension, and production of spoken words
  - Organization and processing of semantic knowledge
  - Computational models of brain and behavior

* John Kounios, Creativity Research Laboratory
https://sites.google.com/site/johnkounios/laboratory
  - Cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience,
     focusing on human memory, problem solving,
     intelligence, and creativity
  - Specialization in electrophysiological
    methods (EEG, ERP), and other behavioral and
    neuroimaging methods (e.g., fMRI)

For a full list of faculty members in the ACBS
http://www.drexel.edu/psychology/academics/graduate/acbs/faculty/

Drexel University is located in the University City and Center City
neighborhoods of Philadelphia, a major metropolitan area with numerous
cultural, medical, educational, and recreational opportunities, as
well as easy access via high speed rail to New York City, Washington,
D.C., and surrounding areas of the Northeast Corridor. Drexel
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The
College of Arts and Sciences is especially interested in qualified
students who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the
academic community.

To Apply: Applications are now being accepted; the closing
  deadline is Dec 01, 2013.

For complete application instructions, please see the following website:
  http://www.drexel.edu/psychology/academics/graduate/acbs/application/

Chris R. Sims, Ph.D.     Chris.Sims at drexel.edu
Applied Cognitive & Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
Drexel University
www.pages.drexel.edu/~crs346/       (215) 553-7170
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From frank.ritter at psu.edu  Sun Jan  5 16:24:52 2014
From: frank.ritter at psu.edu (Frank Ritter)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:24:52 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
In-Reply-To: <FCC2A1A7FAA53C4AAB3F8319102282E80A0C2A@CINURCNA09.e2k.ad.ge.com>
References: <FCC2A1A7FAA53C4AAB3F8319102282E80A0C2A@CINURCNA09.e2k.ad.ge.com>
Message-ID: <p0624083bceef7b9ca617@[192.168.1.8]>


here are few others:  (all at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers)


J18	Ritter, F. E., Kukreja, U., & St. Amant, R. (2007). 
Including a model of visual processing with a cognitive architecture 
to model a simple teleoperation task.  Journal of Cognitive 
Engineering and Decision Making. 1(2).  121-147.
might not note real change,but shows what could be done

J17	St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter, F. E. (2007). 
Model-based evaluation of expert cell phone menu interaction. ACM 
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 14(1), Article 1 (May 
2007), 24 pages.

C28	St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter, F. E. (2004). 
Model-based evaluation of cell phone menu interaction. In Proceedings 
of the CHI'04 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. 
343-350. New York, NY: ACM.

notes what should be done, for sure

J13	St. Amant, R., Freed, A. R., & Ritter, F. E. (2005). 
Specifying ACT-R models of user interaction with a GOMS language. 
Cognitive Systems Research, 6(1), 71-88.
J15	Ritter, F. E., Van Rooy, D., St. Amant, R., & Simpson, K. 
(2006). Providing user models direct access to interfaces: An 
exploratory study of a simple interface with implications for HRI and 
HCI. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: 
Systems and Humans.  36(3). 592-601.
another examples

C40	St. Amant, R., Riedel, M. O., Ritter, F. E., & Reifers, A. 
(2005). Image processing in cognitive models with SegMan. In 
Proceedings of HCI International '05.  (Invited.) Volume 4 - 
Theories, Models and Processes in HCI. Paper # 1869.
has examples of interaction

anecdotally, one of my students wanted to make money with a scheme to 
play roulette (really, true story), of doubling down if you lost.  he 
would not beleive the multiple arguments, but tried it with segman 
and actr on an offshore casino's practice table.  he lost and 
believed, and gave up the theory.

this book argues for your position too:
Pew, R. W., & Mavor, A. S. (Eds.). (2007). Human-system integration 
in the system development process: A new look. Washington, DC: 
National Academies Press. 
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11893, checked March 2012.


cheers,

Frank Ritter


At 20:55 +0000 2/1/14, Qosja, Ardian (Amphenol Advanced Sensors) wrote:
>Content-Language: en-US
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> 
>	boundary="_000_FCC2A1A7FAA53C4AAB3F8319102282E80A0C2ACINURCNA09e2kadge_"
>
>Hi,
>For an PhD dissertation purposes, I do need one or two good 
>references showing a successful implementation of ACT_R to 
>reconfigure a computer screen. In my case the computer is used as 
>HMI in deep water drilling (seawater oil and gas rigs) controlling 
>an BOP mechanism. The controlling COE software is already in place 
>and is an established and leading controlling program. My approach 
>aims for coupling an HRA cognitive and behavioristic (operator) 
>model with the existing COE software.
>
>Thank You,
>
>Ardian Qosja
>
>Amphenol
>Advanced Sensors
>
>T (814) 834-5663
>E <mailto:ardian.qosja at ge.com> ardian.qosja at ge.com (Amphenol Advanced Sensors)
>
>
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From susan.chipman at gmail.com  Tue Jan  7 14:23:27 2014
From: susan.chipman at gmail.com (Susan Chipman)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:23:27 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] References: ACT-R/Perception and Attention
In-Reply-To: <p0624083bceef7b9ca617@192.168.1.8>
References: <FCC2A1A7FAA53C4AAB3F8319102282E80A0C2A@CINURCNA09.e2k.ad.ge.com>
 <p0624083bceef7b9ca617@192.168.1.8>
Message-ID: <CAPiRxG2kgmVR=B2dyhPHtGbvwe7oP4018HDo6247CKpkWNmbig@mail.gmail.com>

        As a further comment, the perceptual/motor modeling in ACT-R was
borrowed from EPIC, another cognitive architecture developed by David
Kieras and David Meyer of the University of Michigan (see a couple of very
big articles in Psychological Review).  Kieras has been interested in HCI
applications and has done quite a bit of work of that type.
         At some point I discovered that the borrowing from EPIC to ACT-R
was not thoroughgoing and did not include much of the detail of EPIC's
perceptual modeling.   This seemed like a foolish choice to me.  It might
well make a difference.

Susan Chipman (former research sponsor of both ACT-R and EPIC)


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Frank Ritter <frank.ritter at psu.edu> wrote:

>
> here are few others:  (all at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers)
>
>
> J18     Ritter, F. E., Kukreja, U., & St. Amant, R. (2007). Including a
> model of visual processing with a cognitive architecture to model a simple
> teleoperation task.  Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making.
> 1(2).  121-147.
> might not note real change,but shows what could be done
>
> J17     St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter, F. E. (2007). Model-based
> evaluation of expert cell phone menu interaction. ACM Transactions on
> Computer-Human Interaction, 14(1), Article 1 (May 2007), 24 pages.
>
> C28     St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter, F. E. (2004). Model-based
> evaluation of cell phone menu interaction. In Proceedings of the CHI'04
> Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. 343-350. New York, NY: ACM.
>
> notes what should be done, for sure
>
> J13     St. Amant, R., Freed, A. R., & Ritter, F. E. (2005). Specifying
> ACT-R models of user interaction with a GOMS language. Cognitive Systems
> Research, 6(1), 71-88.
> J15     Ritter, F. E., Van Rooy, D., St. Amant, R., & Simpson, K. (2006).
> Providing user models direct access to interfaces: An exploratory study of
> a simple interface with implications for HRI and HCI. IEEE Transactions on
> Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans.  36(3). 592-601.
> another examples
>
> C40     St. Amant, R., Riedel, M. O., Ritter, F. E., & Reifers, A. (2005).
> Image processing in cognitive models with SegMan. In Proceedings of HCI
> International '05.  (Invited.) Volume 4 - Theories, Models and Processes in
> HCI. Paper # 1869.
> has examples of interaction
>
> anecdotally, one of my students wanted to make money with a scheme to play
> roulette (really, true story), of doubling down if you lost.  he would not
> beleive the multiple arguments, but tried it with segman and actr on an
> offshore casino's practice table.  he lost and believed, and gave up the
> theory.
>
> this book argues for your position too:
> Pew, R. W., & Mavor, A. S. (Eds.). (2007). Human-system integration in the
> system development process: A new look. Washington, DC: National Academies
> Press. http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11893, checked March
> 2012.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Frank Ritter
>
>
> At 20:55 +0000 2/1/14, Qosja, Ardian (Amphenol Advanced Sensors) wrote:
>
>> Content-Language: en-US
>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>>
>>         boundary="_000_FCC2A1A7FAA53C4AAB3F8319102282
>> E80A0C2ACINURCNA09e2kadge_"
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> For an PhD dissertation purposes, I do need one or two good references
>> showing a successful implementation of ACT_R to reconfigure a computer
>> screen. In my case the computer is used as HMI in deep water drilling
>> (seawater oil and gas rigs) controlling an BOP mechanism. The controlling
>> COE software is already in place and is an established and leading
>> controlling program. My approach aims for coupling an HRA cognitive and
>> behavioristic (operator) model with the existing COE software.
>>
>> Thank You,
>>
>> Ardian Qosja
>>
>> Amphenol
>> Advanced Sensors
>>
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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Jan 10 10:51:51 2014
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:51:51 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release
Message-ID: <5402F926689664FFCEEB37FA@actr6b.cmu.edu>


ACT-R 6.0 v1.5 [r1451] is now the current version on the ACT-R web site.

Here are the significant changes from the previous version:

- There is now a simulate-retrieval-request command.  It can be called
with a request description as one would provide in a +retrieval>
action in a production.  It will print a simplified version of the
activation trace which results from making that request at the current
time without affecting the retrieval buffer or the declarative
module's state.

Here's an example call after running the count model from unit 1 of
the tutorial:

> (simulate-retrieval-request isa count-order :recently-retrieved t)
Only recently retrieved chunks: (E D C)
Chunk E matches
Chunk D matches
Chunk C matches
Chunk E has the current best activation 0.0
Chunk D matches the current best activation 0.0
Chunk C matches the current best activation 0.0
Chunk C chosen among the chunks with activation 0.0
(C D E)


- Added warnings for several potential problems which the parser finds
among the productions in a model which do not lead to errors in creating
the productions.  These "style" warnings indicate things like a request
for which there is no production that tests such a result or a chunk-type
in a condition which is not requested by any other productions.

There is also a new command called declare-buffer-usage which can be
used in the model definition to suppress some style warnings by indicating
the type and slots of chunks that are being set in buffers by code outside
of the productions and the model definition.

In addition, there is also a new parameter, :style-warnings, which can be
set to nil to suppress all of the style warnings.


- A new system parameter called :starting-parameters has been added.
This system parameter can be set to a list of parameters and values which
are appropriate for use with sgp.  That set of parameters will be applied
at the start of every model definition and at the beginning of every reset.
Essentially, this allows one to change the default values for any of the
parameters.

The recommended way to use :starting-parameters is to put the desired
settings into a .lisp file in the user-loads directory so that it gets
set automatically every time ACT-R is loaded.

Here's an example which would change the starting values for the :esc and
:trace-detail parameters:

(ssp :starting-parameters (:esc t :trace-detail high))


- There is a version of the ACT-R Environment available as an app for
Android devices.  The app and the instructions for installing and using it
are found on the ACT-R website software page under the "Remote Environment"
heading.  This was made possible because of the development of the
AndroWish Tcl/Tk system.  Unfortunately there is not a corresponding Tcl/Tk
system available for iOS.


For details on what else has changed, you can view the commit log on the
ACT-R web site:

<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/log/actr6log.txt>

You can also subscribe to a feed to be notified when there are new commits
to the sources:

<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/log/actr6feed.xml>

Note that the log and feed locations have changed since the last ACT-R 6
release.


If you have any comments, questions, or problems with this update please
let me know.

Dan


From greg.trafton at nrl.navy.mil  Fri Jan 10 14:02:20 2014
From: greg.trafton at nrl.navy.mil (Greg Trafton)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:02:20 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Postdoc Opportunity
Message-ID: <ED8E6F56-B182-4149-94CD-BFC44B8A793F@nrl.navy.mil>

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher for the Intelligent Systems Section at the Naval Research Laboratory.  The postdoc will primarily be working with Dr. Greg Trafton and Dr. Laura Hiatt to investigate ways to leverage priming effects and context in ACT-R to improve autonomous robotic systems.  Work on this will include developing a theory of long-term context using ACT-R?s priming mechanisms, and using it to improve machine perception and human-robot interaction.

The ideal candidate has (or will have) a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, cognitive science or computer science, with experience in cognitive modeling and a strong programming background.  Postdocs will be hired through the NRC Research Associateship Program (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap/); the next application deadline is February 1.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Greg Trafton (greg.trafton at nrl.navy.mil) or Dr. Laura Hiatt (laura.hiatt at nrl.navy.mil).

Greg
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From webmaster at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu  Mon Jan 13 09:03:45 2014
From: webmaster at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu (webmaster)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:03:45 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R website update
Message-ID: <000501cf1068$46266bc0$d2734340$@psy.cmu.edu>

The ACT-R website <http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu> has received a complete
overhaul.

The updated site should provide all the same information as the old one and 
hopefully be easier to use.  There are a couple of changes however.

>From a functional standpoint, the most significant change is that it is now 
possible for researchers to add publications directly to the site by using 
the "Submit Publication" link found on the top banner.

>From a content standpoint, the links to the publication pages on the site
have been maintained, but the links to the specific files attached to the 
publications have all changed.  For example, this link still goes to 
information about "An Integrated Theory of the Mind":

<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php?id=526>

but the direct link to the paper itself has changed.

The previous website will remain available at <http://old-act-r.psy.cmu.edu>

until the end of the month if anyone still wants to access it.  

If you have any problems or questions about the update, please send mail to 
webmaster at act-r.psy.cmu.edu.



From terry.stewart at gmail.com  Thu Jan 16 18:11:11 2014
From: terry.stewart at gmail.com (Terry Stewart)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:11:11 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Nengo Summer School
Message-ID: <CAL0ZbQGxdipBWMTvijsoSz3er=oHCvfBmcEoQWNPBsLkhBqqiw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

I've talked with some of you individually about this, but I thought
the general ACT-R community might be interested in the summer school
we're running this year on the neural modelling software Nengo that
we've been using to do models like Spaun.  The neural cognitive
architecture we use is significantly inspired by ACT-R, with some
interesting modifications due to the fact that each module needs to be
implementable in neurons.  We've also been doing some experimenting
with hybrid models, where part of the system is running in neurons and
part of the system is running in more traditional ACT-R.  The format
of the summer school is project-based, with the intent to have people
building models relevant to their own research.

Dates: June 8th to June 21st, 2014
Location: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Application Deadline: February 15, 2014

Overview:
The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo
is inviting applications for an in-depth, two week summer school that
will teach participants how to use the Neural Engineering Framework
and the Nengo simulation package to build state-of-the-art cognitive
and neural models. Nengo has been used to build what is currently the
world's largest functional brain model, Spaun, and provides users with
a versatile and powerful environment for simulating cognitive and
neural systems. We welcome applications from all interested graduate
students, research associates, postdocs, professors, and industry
professionals. No specific training in the use of modelling software
is required, but we encourage applications from active researchers
with a relevant background in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive
science, or a related field. More information about Nengo, the Neural
Engineering Framework, and Spaun can be found at http://www.nengo.ca

More information: http://nengo.ca/summerschool

There's also a poster attached to this email.

I hope this is of interest!

Terry Stewart
Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
University of Waterloo
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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Tue Jan 21 16:34:13 2014
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:34:13 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Is there sufficient demand for an ACT-R Summer School
	this year?
Message-ID: <14961A625FBDE27B16E8D234@actr6b.cmu.edu>


There will not be an ACT-R workshop at CMU this summer, and
there is an ACT-R Spring School in the Netherlands this year.
Those occurrences tend to decrease the number of applicants
we get for the Summer School.  Because of that, I would like
to get some idea as to how many people may apply if we were
to hold one before actually committing to having one.

Please email me if you would apply to the Summer School this
year or if you know a student or researcher that may not be
on this list who you would expect to apply.

We will consider the potential demand and make a decision on
whether or not to hold a Summer School this year in the near
future.

Thanks,
Dan




From n.a.taatgen at rug.nl  Wed Jan 22 03:13:23 2014
From: n.a.taatgen at rug.nl (Niels Taatgen)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:13:23 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fourth ACT-R Spring School and Master Class (reminder)
Message-ID: <E457E93C-736B-451B-881C-4A040FE6EA4D@rug.nl>

Here is a reminder of the upcoming Spring School: deadline to apply is January 27!

Niels


Fourth ACT-R Spring School and Master Class 2014

Organizers: Niels Taatgen, Hedderik van Rijn, Jelmer Borst and Stefan Wierda

University of Groningen, Netherlands

http://www.ai.rug.nl/actr-springschool/

April 7-12, 2013

ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra and air traffic control. Following previous ACT-R events in 2010, 2011 and 2013, the University of Groningen will host a spring school and master class.

Spring School

Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school curriculum. The standard curriculum is structured as a set of six units, of which we will cover five in the course of the week. Each unit lasts a day and involves a morning theory lecture, an afternoon discussion session on advanced topics, and an assignment which participants are expected to complete during the day. The last day will be devoted to discussions and presentations by participants. Computing facilities will be provided or attendees can bring their own laptop on which the ACT-R software will be installed.

To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited.  Prospective participants should submit an application by January 27, consisting of a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen the application, as well as general programming experience. Applicants will be notified of admission by February 3.

Master Class: Work on your own project

Organized parallel to the spring school, the master class offers the opportunity for modelers to work on their own projects with guidance from experienced ACT-R modelers. Note that signing up for the Master Class assumes some prior ACT-R experience, either through self-study, or having followed an earlier ACT-R spring or summer school.

Participation in the Master Class is open to all who have some prerequisite ACT-R experience through prior Summer or Spring schools. Please also register before January 27th.

PRIM/Actransfer tutorial

For those interested in modeling transfer, a tutorial will be offered about the new Actransfer extension to ACT-R. See http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/actransfer.html for more information.

Registrations fees and housing

Registration fee: Euro 200

Housing will be offered in the university guesthouse for approximately 61 Euro /day (single, double rooms are around Euro 78.50, Breakfast is 10 Euro/person).

Registration

To apply to the 2014 Spring School or Master Class, send an email to Hedderik van Rijn (hedderik at van-rijn.org) and attach the requested documents before January 27, 2014.

 

 

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Niels Taatgen - Professor
University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence
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From grayw at rpi.edu  Tue Jan 28 08:54:13 2014
From: grayw at rpi.edu (Gray, Wayne)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:54:13 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!
In-Reply-To: <985C605F-4C12-4D92-BA76-6E662706E91A@icloud.com>
References: <CA+N5uBuvse9VoNHtwvnCvJ=bSERp3FiwT59vKHxjvxxAh-Mjmg@mail.gmail.com>
 <8A3172F4-0FA4-4529-8F52-52FB7F295D6B@icloud.com>
 <7551581EBB90044D887A05946B369289019AA39EF1@SOM-MB.wiley.com>
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 <985C605F-4C12-4D92-BA76-6E662706E91A@icloud.com>
Message-ID: <709993B8-EA93-4957-B1F9-C016AE059592@rpi.edu>

FYI. 

The article highlight in January's Topics in Cognitive Science has come to the attention of the NY Times Science Time in today's paper.

There are links to the paper, but not to its Editorial Introduction. So here:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12080/abstract

and here is the NY Times story by Ben Carey.

Wayne

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/the-older-mind-may-just-be-a-fuller-mind/?rref=science&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Science&pgtype=article

This is cognitive modeling combined with the use of big data (via mining google) to come up with predictions contrary to the received wisdom. It is not ACTR modeling and is not a topic that most of you study, but I think you will enjoy the NYTimes article and the original paper.

Wayne
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From dds26 at drexel.edu  Tue Jan 28 08:53:34 2014
From: dds26 at drexel.edu (Dario Salvucci)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:53:34 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop at Cog Sci?
Message-ID: <DF0BF88B-303B-44C7-A331-430108DB3236@drexel.edu>

To the ACT-R community,

Several of us (below) are planning to submit a proposal to the Cognitive Science conference for a 1-day ACT-R workshop. For the submission, we are looking to develop a provisional list of interested speakers for the workshop. If you would like to attend and present, please email me ASAP (salvucci at drexel.edu<mailto:salvucci at drexel.edu>) and we?ll add your name to the list of interested speakers (details and topics to be worked out later). Of course, this is all tentative depending on what happens with the submission, but we hope it will go through and provide us with a chance to meet and talk about the latest and greatest ACT-R work.

Thanks,
Dario Salvucci, Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Niels Taatgen, Greg Trafton



Dario Salvucci
Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
Professor of Computer Science

College of Computing & Informatics
Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545

drexel.edu/cci<http://www.drexel.edu/cci>

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From grayw at rpi.edu  Tue Jan 28 10:22:19 2014
From: grayw at rpi.edu (Gray, Wayne)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:22:19 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop at Cog Sci?
In-Reply-To: <DF0BF88B-303B-44C7-A331-430108DB3236@drexel.edu>
References: <DF0BF88B-303B-44C7-A331-430108DB3236@drexel.edu>
Message-ID: <A8718414-A8D7-4CA7-B97E-DF40CDE4D1AD@rpi.edu>

Dario,

There have been many interesting workshops and tutorials on the Wed before the conference in recent years. Would you be interested in having the ACTR workshop on a Tuesday so as not to conflict with those?

Wayne

On 14-Jan-28, at 08:53, Dario Salvucci <dds26 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> To the ACT-R community,
> 
> Several of us (below) are planning to submit a proposal to the Cognitive Science conference for a 1-day ACT-R workshop. For the submission, we are looking to develop a provisional list of interested speakers for the workshop. If you would like to attend and present, please email me ASAP (salvucci at drexel.edu) and we?ll add your name to the list of interested speakers (details and topics to be worked out later). Of course, this is all tentative depending on what happens with the submission, but we hope it will go through and provide us with a chance to meet and talk about the latest and greatest ACT-R work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dario Salvucci, Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Niels Taatgen, Greg Trafton
> 
> 
> 
> Dario Salvucci
> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
> Professor of Computer Science
>  
> College of Computing & Informatics
> Drexel University
> 
> 3141 Chestnut Street
> 
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
> 
> drexel.edu/cci 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> ACT-R-users mailing list
> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users

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From dds26 at drexel.edu  Tue Jan 28 11:55:37 2014
From: dds26 at drexel.edu (Dario Salvucci)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:55:37 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop at Cog Sci?
In-Reply-To: <A8718414-A8D7-4CA7-B97E-DF40CDE4D1AD@rpi.edu>
References: <DF0BF88B-303B-44C7-A331-430108DB3236@drexel.edu>
 <A8718414-A8D7-4CA7-B97E-DF40CDE4D1AD@rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <647FE237-C2D4-4AE1-BDDA-2566F10B7411@drexel.edu>

Hi Wayne,

We could discuss that option. I suppose that would mean going outside the boundaries of Cog Sci and coordinating separately for a venue etc., which may be difficult but we can look into it...

Dario


On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu<mailto:grayw at rpi.edu>> wrote:

Dario,

There have been many interesting workshops and tutorials on the Wed before the conference in recent years. Would you be interested in having the ACTR workshop on a Tuesday so as not to conflict with those?

Wayne

On 14-Jan-28, at 08:53, Dario Salvucci <dds26 at drexel.edu<mailto:dds26 at drexel.edu>> wrote:

To the ACT-R community,

Several of us (below) are planning to submit a proposal to the Cognitive Science conference for a 1-day ACT-R workshop. For the submission, we are looking to develop a provisional list of interested speakers for the workshop. If you would like to attend and present, please email me ASAP (salvucci at drexel.edu<mailto:salvucci at drexel.edu>) and we?ll add your name to the list of interested speakers (details and topics to be worked out later). Of course, this is all tentative depending on what happens with the submission, but we hope it will go through and provide us with a chance to meet and talk about the latest and greatest ACT-R work.

Thanks,
Dario Salvucci, Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Niels Taatgen, Greg Trafton



Dario Salvucci
Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
Professor of Computer Science

College of Computing & Informatics
Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545

drexel.edu/cci<http://www.drexel.edu/cci>

_______________________________________________
ACT-R-users mailing list
ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu<mailto:ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu>
https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users



Dario Salvucci
Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
Professor of Computer Science

College of Computing & Informatics
Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545

drexel.edu/cci<http://www.drexel.edu/cci>

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From reder at cmu.edu  Tue Jan 28 12:15:15 2014
From: reder at cmu.edu (Lynne Reder)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:15:15 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop at Cog Sci?
In-Reply-To: <8649_1390928200_s0SGudc2017576_647FE237-C2D4-4AE1-BDDA-2566F10B7411@drexel.edu>
References: <DF0BF88B-303B-44C7-A331-430108DB3236@drexel.edu>
 <A8718414-A8D7-4CA7-B97E-DF40CDE4D1AD@rpi.edu>
 <8649_1390928200_s0SGudc2017576_647FE237-C2D4-4AE1-BDDA-2566F10B7411@drexel.edu>
Message-ID: <ED8C83BC-269F-4552-84FB-9153F9E0457F@cmu.edu>

Hi Wayne,

I'm unclear about your concern.  Is it that ACT-R will take people away from other interesting workshops or that the other interesting workshops will take attendees away from ACT-R?   The fact that this is offered frequently should make it less of a concern as a competitor with other workshops as it seems unlikely that people would take it over and over (that is just my hunch).

On a different topic, I tried to read the article you promoted from the NYTimes and, even though I am a NYTimes subscriber, I got an error message when I tried to fetch it.

Cheers,
Lynne

On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Dario Salvucci wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
> 
> We could discuss that option. I suppose that would mean going outside the boundaries of Cog Sci and coordinating separately for a venue etc., which may be difficult but we can look into it...
> 
> Dario
> 
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Dario,
>> 
>> There have been many interesting workshops and tutorials on the Wed before the conference in recent years. Would you be interested in having the ACTR workshop on a Tuesday so as not to conflict with those?
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> On 14-Jan-28, at 08:53, Dario Salvucci <dds26 at drexel.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> To the ACT-R community,
>>> 
>>> Several of us (below) are planning to submit a proposal to the Cognitive Science conference for a 1-day ACT-R workshop. For the submission, we are looking to develop a provisional list of interested speakers for the workshop. If you would like to attend and present, please email me ASAP (salvucci at drexel.edu) and we?ll add your name to the list of interested speakers (details and topics to be worked out later). Of course, this is all tentative depending on what happens with the submission, but we hope it will go through and provide us with a chance to meet and talk about the latest and greatest ACT-R work.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dario Salvucci, Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Niels Taatgen, Greg Trafton
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dario Salvucci
>>> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
>>> Professor of Computer Science
>>>  
>>> College of Computing & Informatics
>>> Drexel University
>>> 
>>> 3141 Chestnut Street
>>> 
>>> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>>> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
>>> 
>>> drexel.edu/cci 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>> 
> 
> 
> Dario Salvucci
> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
> Professor of Computer Science
>  
> College of Computing & Informatics
> Drexel University
> 
> 3141 Chestnut Street
> 
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
> 
> drexel.edu/cci 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> ACT-R-users mailing list
> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users

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From reder at cmu.edu  Tue Jan 28 13:45:59 2014
From: reder at cmu.edu (Lynne Reder)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:45:59 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!
In-Reply-To: <6578E16F-29C0-436D-A51B-DA79B7506A46@cmu.edu>
References: <CA+N5uBuvse9VoNHtwvnCvJ=bSERp3FiwT59vKHxjvxxAh-Mjmg@mail.gmail.com>
 <8A3172F4-0FA4-4529-8F52-52FB7F295D6B@icloud.com>
 <7551581EBB90044D887A05946B369289019AA39EF1@SOM-MB.wiley.com>
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I did manage to see the article and then saw that others responded to my problem in accessing it.  So my response to Susan (and the link to our relevant paper) is forwarded here.

On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Lynne Reder wrote:

> Hi Susan,
> 
> Actually, we (Norbou Buchler and I)  have published a paper that makes this point.  That said, I definitely do not consider this to be the whole story so I find the article misleading.  Anyway, here is the linke to our paper on this topic. 
> 
> http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/publications/07Buchler_Reder.pdf
> 
> citation:  Buchler, N & Reder, L. M. (2007) Modeling Age-Related Memory Deficits: A Two-Parameter Solution.  Psychology and Aging 2007 (22) No. 1, 104 ?121.  DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.104
> 
> Nice to hear from you (swamped though),
> Lynne
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Susan Chipman wrote:
> 
>> Wondering about your reaction to this comment of mine.
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Susan Chipman <susan.chipman at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!
>> To: "Gray, Wayne" <grayw at rpi.edu>
>> Cc: John Anderson <ja at cmu.edu>
>> 
>> 
>>           Interesting.   When I first heard about Anderson's fan effect research, I had the thought that it might imply that the mind would grind to a halt as more things were learned -- explaining age effects.   I never pursued this since neither memory research nor aging was one of my interests.
>> 
>> Susan
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> FYI. 
>> 
>> The article highlight in January's Topics in Cognitive Science has come to the attention of the NY Times Science Time in today's paper.
>> 
>> There are links to the paper, but not to its Editorial Introduction. So here:
>> 
>> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12080/abstract
>> 
>> and here is the NY Times story by Ben Carey.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/the-older-mind-may-just-be-a-fuller-mind/?rref=science&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Science&pgtype=article
>> 
>> This is cognitive modeling combined with the use of big data (via mining google) to come up with predictions contrary to the received wisdom. It is not ACTR modeling and is not a topic that most of you study, but I think you will enjoy the NYTimes article and the original paper.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>> 
>> 
>> 
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From grayw at rpi.edu  Tue Jan 28 13:57:49 2014
From: grayw at rpi.edu (Gray, Wayne)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:57:49 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop at Cog Sci?
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Lynne,

Your interpretation is a bit different from mine, but maybe is the correct one.

I had thought that this was intended as a 1-da replacement for the Annual ACTR Workshop that used to follow the summer school in Pgh.

If it is intended, as you seem to imply, as a 1-da intro to ACTR, then that is a different matter.

Wayne

On 14-Jan-28, at 12:15, Lynne Reder <reder at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I'm unclear about your concern.  Is it that ACT-R will take people away from other interesting workshops or that the other interesting workshops will take attendees away from ACT-R?   The fact that this is offered frequently should make it less of a concern as a competitor with other workshops as it seems unlikely that people would take it over and over (that is just my hunch).
> 
> On a different topic, I tried to read the article you promoted from the NYTimes and, even though I am a NYTimes subscriber, I got an error message when I tried to fetch it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lynne
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Dario Salvucci wrote:
> 
>> Hi Wayne,
>> 
>> We could discuss that option. I suppose that would mean going outside the boundaries of Cog Sci and coordinating separately for a venue etc., which may be difficult but we can look into it...
>> 
>> Dario
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dario,
>>> 
>>> There have been many interesting workshops and tutorials on the Wed before the conference in recent years. Would you be interested in having the ACTR workshop on a Tuesday so as not to conflict with those?
>>> 
>>> Wayne
>>> 
>>> On 14-Jan-28, at 08:53, Dario Salvucci <dds26 at drexel.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> To the ACT-R community,
>>>> 
>>>> Several of us (below) are planning to submit a proposal to the Cognitive Science conference for a 1-day ACT-R workshop. For the submission, we are looking to develop a provisional list of interested speakers for the workshop. If you would like to attend and present, please email me ASAP (salvucci at drexel.edu) and we?ll add your name to the list of interested speakers (details and topics to be worked out later). Of course, this is all tentative depending on what happens with the submission, but we hope it will go through and provide us with a chance to meet and talk about the latest and greatest ACT-R work.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dario Salvucci, Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Niels Taatgen, Greg Trafton
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dario Salvucci
>>>> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
>>>> Professor of Computer Science
>>>>  
>>>> College of Computing & Informatics
>>>> Drexel University
>>>> 
>>>> 3141 Chestnut Street
>>>> 
>>>> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>>>> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
>>>> 
>>>> drexel.edu/cci 
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>>>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>>>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dario Salvucci
>> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
>> Professor of Computer Science
>>  
>> College of Computing & Informatics
>> Drexel University
>> 
>> 3141 Chestnut Street
>> 
>> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
>> 
>> drexel.edu/cci 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
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From reder at cmu.edu  Tue Jan 28 14:11:20 2014
From: reder at cmu.edu (Lynne Reder)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:11:20 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop at Cog Sci?
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I should not be speaking about any of this, me thinks.  I know less about this stuff than anyone else on the mailing list.

Over and out.  Thanks and sorry

--Lynne

On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Gray, Wayne wrote:

> Lynne,
> 
> Your interpretation is a bit different from mine, but maybe is the correct one.
> 
> I had thought that this was intended as a 1-da replacement for the Annual ACTR Workshop that used to follow the summer school in Pgh.
> 
> If it is intended, as you seem to imply, as a 1-da intro to ACTR, then that is a different matter.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 14-Jan-28, at 12:15, Lynne Reder <reder at cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Wayne,
>> 
>> I'm unclear about your concern.  Is it that ACT-R will take people away from other interesting workshops or that the other interesting workshops will take attendees away from ACT-R?   The fact that this is offered frequently should make it less of a concern as a competitor with other workshops as it seems unlikely that people would take it over and over (that is just my hunch).
>> 
>> On a different topic, I tried to read the article you promoted from the NYTimes and, even though I am a NYTimes subscriber, I got an error message when I tried to fetch it.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Lynne
>> 
>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Dario Salvucci wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Wayne,
>>> 
>>> We could discuss that option. I suppose that would mean going outside the boundaries of Cog Sci and coordinating separately for a venue etc., which may be difficult but we can look into it...
>>> 
>>> Dario
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dario,
>>>> 
>>>> There have been many interesting workshops and tutorials on the Wed before the conference in recent years. Would you be interested in having the ACTR workshop on a Tuesday so as not to conflict with those?
>>>> 
>>>> Wayne
>>>> 
>>>> On 14-Jan-28, at 08:53, Dario Salvucci <dds26 at drexel.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> To the ACT-R community,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Several of us (below) are planning to submit a proposal to the Cognitive Science conference for a 1-day ACT-R workshop. For the submission, we are looking to develop a provisional list of interested speakers for the workshop. If you would like to attend and present, please email me ASAP (salvucci at drexel.edu) and we?ll add your name to the list of interested speakers (details and topics to be worked out later). Of course, this is all tentative depending on what happens with the submission, but we hope it will go through and provide us with a chance to meet and talk about the latest and greatest ACT-R work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Dario Salvucci, Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Niels Taatgen, Greg Trafton
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dario Salvucci
>>>>> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
>>>>> Professor of Computer Science
>>>>>  
>>>>> College of Computing & Informatics
>>>>> Drexel University
>>>>> 
>>>>> 3141 Chestnut Street
>>>>> 
>>>>> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>>>>> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
>>>>> 
>>>>> drexel.edu/cci 
>>>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>>>>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>>>>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dario Salvucci
>>> Associate Dean for CCI Undergraduate Studies
>>> Professor of Computer Science
>>>  
>>> College of Computing & Informatics
>>> Drexel University
>>> 
>>> 3141 Chestnut Street
>>> 
>>> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>>> Tel: 215.895.2674  |  Fax: 215.895.0545
>>> 
>>> drexel.edu/cci 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>> 
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From d.peebles at hud.ac.uk  Tue Jan 28 14:47:39 2014
From: d.peebles at hud.ac.uk (David Peebles)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:47:39 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!
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It's also currently the second story on the front page of Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/

David


On 28 January 2014 18:45, Lynne Reder <reder at cmu.edu> wrote:

> I did manage to see the article and then saw that others responded to my
> problem in accessing it.  So my response to Susan (and the link to our
> relevant paper) is forwarded here.
>
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Lynne Reder wrote:
>
> Hi Susan,
>
> Actually, we (Norbou Buchler and I)  have published a paper that makes
> this point.  That said, I definitely do not consider this to be the whole
> story so I find the article misleading.  Anyway, here is the linke to our
> paper on this topic.
>
> http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/publications/07Buchler_Reder.pdf
>
> citation:  Buchler, N & Reder, L. M. (2007) Modeling Age-Related Memory
> Deficits: A Two-Parameter Solution.  *Psychology and Aging* 2007 (22) No.
> 1, 104 -121.  DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.104
>
> Nice to hear from you (swamped though),
> Lynne
>
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Susan Chipman wrote:
>
> Wondering about your reaction to this comment of mine.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Susan Chipman <susan.chipman at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] New York Times, Science Times!
> To: "Gray, Wayne" <grayw at rpi.edu>
> Cc: John Anderson <ja at cmu.edu>
>
>
>           Interesting.   When I first heard about Anderson's fan effect
> research, I had the thought that it might imply that the mind would grind
> to a halt as more things were learned -- explaining age effects.   I never
> pursued this since neither memory research nor aging was one of my
> interests.
>
> Susan
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu> wrote:
>
>> FYI.
>>
>> The article highlight in January's Topics in Cognitive Science has come
>> to the attention of the NY Times Science Time in today's paper.
>>
>> There are links to the paper, but not to its Editorial Introduction. So
>> here:
>>
>> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12080/abstract
>>
>> and here is the NY Times story by Ben Carey.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>
>> http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/the-older-mind-may-just-be-a-fuller-mind/?rref=science&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Science&pgtype=article
>>
>> This is cognitive modeling combined with the use of big data (via mining
>> google) to come up with predictions contrary to the received wisdom. It is
>> not ACTR modeling and is not a topic that most of you study, but I think
>> you will enjoy the NYTimes article and the original paper.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ACT-R-users mailing list
>> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>
>


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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Jan 31 15:03:12 2014
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:03:12 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] No ACT-R Summer School this year
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Thank you to everyone who responded.  Unfortunately,
there was not enough demand to justify holding a
Summer School this year.

Dan