From bejohn at us.ibm.com  Fri May  9 17:07:33 2014
From: bejohn at us.ibm.com (Bonnie E John)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 17:07:33 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Applicarions using ACT-R?
Message-ID: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>



Hi folks,
I'll be giving a short presentation about ACT-R to an internal group at IBM
next week and would like to highlight places where ACT-R is being used in
practical applications other than academic research.
I'll have time for just one slide on the theory, one slide on the variety
of scientific models, and one slide on real-world applications. I don't
want to miss anything in this third slide, hence this email.

   CogTool is obviouslya real-world application (though its not using much
   of the ACT-R theory) -- I won't forget that one! ;-)
   I was going to talk about cognitive tutors, because even though I don't
   think the things out of CarnegieLearning actually use ACT-R, the
   understanding of human learning that preceded the commercial product was
   obtained from ACT-R models (e.g., showing the learning at the production
   level, not problem-difficulty level). (Please jump in and tell me if I
   am wrong about this, Ken or Al or anybody.)

I'm looking specifically for any application where anyone is making any
money, or saving taxpayers money (for you government folks), or making
something safer in the real world (e.g., identifying fatigue or driver
distraction or whatever).

Thanks!
Bonnie
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From gapri13 at gmail.com  Fri May  9 20:03:36 2014
From: gapri13 at gmail.com (Ganapathy Priya)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 17:03:36 -0700
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Set-similarities.
Message-ID: <CAFZqDXFd_Vd1sp+s2L-d4m_i36JhMCoYgs6EmrNAwGBxe_z30Q@mail.gmail.com>

Dear ACT-R users,

We are working on modeling a task of visual object recognition. We
would like to update the similarities of chunks (objects) as the model
learns to recognize objects. We would like to start by making the
set-similarities of chunks as 0 and then update the chunk
(dis)similarities in small increments from 0 to -1 across several
training rounds.

Our chunks look like this: (add-dm (Caa1 isa object-content image "aa1"))
(add-dm (Cab1 isa object-content image "ab1"))

(set-similarities  (Caa1 Cab1 0))

We are looking for sample codes that anybody can share where they have
updated the chunk similarities during run-time. Any other functions to
alter the similarities will also be useful.

Thank you in advance.

Regards
Priya


From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri May  9 21:04:54 2014
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 21:04:54 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Set-similarities.
In-Reply-To: <CAFZqDXFd_Vd1sp+s2L-d4m_i36JhMCoYgs6EmrNAwGBxe_z30Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFZqDXFd_Vd1sp+s2L-d4m_i36JhMCoYgs6EmrNAwGBxe_z30Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <16C72D72A5BA298DE7E857D3@dan-HP-ubuntu>



--On Friday, May 09, 2014 05:03:36 PM -0700 Ganapathy Priya <gapri13 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Dear ACT-R users,
>
> We are working on modeling a task of visual object recognition. We
> would like to update the similarities of chunks (objects) as the model
> learns to recognize objects. We would like to start by making the
> set-similarities of chunks as 0 and then update the chunk
> (dis)similarities in small increments from 0 to -1 across several
> training rounds.
>
> Our chunks look like this: (add-dm (Caa1 isa object-content image "aa1"))
> (add-dm (Cab1 isa object-content image "ab1"))
>
> (set-similarities  (Caa1 Cab1 0))
>
> We are looking for sample codes that anybody can share where they have
> updated the chunk similarities during run-time. Any other functions to
> alter the similarities will also be useful.
>

Set-similarities/set-similarities-fct is the only recommended command for
setting the similarites between chunks, but sdp/sdp-fct can also be used to
do so (see the reference manual for details).  Either of those commands
can be called at anytime to change similarites.  Alternatively, one can set
the :sim-hook parameter to specify a function which is used to compute
similarities "on the fly".  The assignment model in unit 5 of the ACT-R
tutorial uses that to set similarities between non-chunk values, but it can
also be used to dynamically compute chunk similaritles.

Hope that helps,
Dan


From dds26 at drexel.edu  Mon May 12 07:05:39 2014
From: dds26 at drexel.edu (Salvucci,Dario)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:05:39 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Applicarions using ACT-R?
In-Reply-To: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>
References: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <373B3683-775B-47D4-BDDB-1258C266CE5A@drexel.edu>

Hi Bonnie,

The Distract-R work has continued with a few NHTSA projects and collaborations with driving folks at Wisconsin and Iowa. The goal is to use cognitive modeling as one leg of the driver-distraction evaluation stool: guidelines for high-level design heuristics, modeling for rapid prototyping and prediction, and empirical studies for detailed results and analysis.

Dario


On May 9, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Bonnie E John <bejohn at us.ibm.com<mailto:bejohn at us.ibm.com>> wrote:


Hi folks,
I'll be giving a short presentation about ACT-R to an internal group at IBM next week and would like to highlight places where ACT-R is being used in practical applications other than academic research.
I'll have time for just one slide on the theory, one slide on the variety of scientific models, and one slide on real-world applications. I don't want to miss anything in this third slide, hence this email.

  *   CogTool is obviouslya real-world application (though its not using much of the ACT-R theory) -- I won't forget that one! ;-)
  *   I was going to talk about cognitive tutors, because even though I don't think the things out of CarnegieLearning actually use ACT-R, the understanding of human learning that preceded the commercial product was obtained from ACT-R models (e.g., showing the learning at the production level, not problem-difficulty level). (Please jump in and tell me if I am wrong about this, Ken or Al or anybody.)

I'm looking specifically for any application where anyone is making any money, or saving taxpayers money (for you government folks), or making something safer in the real world (e.g., identifying fatigue or driver distraction or whatever).

Thanks!
Bonnie
_______________________________________________
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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

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From laura.hiatt at nrl.navy.mil  Mon May 12 08:49:05 2014
From: laura.hiatt at nrl.navy.mil (Laura Hiatt)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 08:49:05 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Set-similarities.
In-Reply-To: <16C72D72A5BA298DE7E857D3@dan-HP-ubuntu>
References: <CAFZqDXFd_Vd1sp+s2L-d4m_i36JhMCoYgs6EmrNAwGBxe_z30Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <16C72D72A5BA298DE7E857D3@dan-HP-ubuntu>
Message-ID: <D5AA20D9-06F2-4AA1-BB83-62542501B393@nrl.navy.mil>

We recently modeled similarity between perceptual objects using perceptual similarity (such as the similarity of color RBG values) and activation:

http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0126/paper0126.pdf

It matches experimental data quite well and was learned over time (at least the BL / spreading activation part was - the perceptual similarity is currently static).  We're still actively working on this - happy to chat about it.


Another paper that might be of use is:

http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/WS/AAAIW11/paper/viewFile/3935/4300

which uses ACT-R in conjunction with Leabra to classify visual objects. 

Best,
Laura


On May 9, 2014, at 9:04 PM, db30 at andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> --On Friday, May 09, 2014 05:03:36 PM -0700 Ganapathy Priya <gapri13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear ACT-R users,
>> 
>> We are working on modeling a task of visual object recognition. We
>> would like to update the similarities of chunks (objects) as the model
>> learns to recognize objects. We would like to start by making the
>> set-similarities of chunks as 0 and then update the chunk
>> (dis)similarities in small increments from 0 to -1 across several
>> training rounds.
>> 
>> Our chunks look like this: (add-dm (Caa1 isa object-content image "aa1"))
>> (add-dm (Cab1 isa object-content image "ab1"))
>> 
>> (set-similarities  (Caa1 Cab1 0))
>> 
>> We are looking for sample codes that anybody can share where they have
>> updated the chunk similarities during run-time. Any other functions to
>> alter the similarities will also be useful.
>> 
> 
> Set-similarities/set-similarities-fct is the only recommended command for
> setting the similarites between chunks, but sdp/sdp-fct can also be used to
> do so (see the reference manual for details).  Either of those commands
> can be called at anytime to change similarites.  Alternatively, one can set
> the :sim-hook parameter to specify a function which is used to compute
> similarities "on the fly".  The assignment model in unit 5 of the ACT-R
> tutorial uses that to set similarities between non-chunk values, but it can
> also be used to dynamically compute chunk similaritles.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Dan
> _______________________________________________
> 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




From troy.d.kelley6.civ at mail.mil  Mon May 12 09:43:58 2014
From: troy.d.kelley6.civ at mail.mil (Kelley, Troy D CIV (US))
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:43:58 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Applicarions using ACT-R? (UNCLASSIFIED)
In-Reply-To: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>
References: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <F61B939B46E1824FA4A0E32FA737BAA654653110@umechpao0.easf.csd.disa.mil>

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Bonnie,

Don't know if you want to mention cognitive robotics or not, but I think we
have made some good progress using ACT-R as a starting point for robotics
applications.

Kelley, T. D., & Long, L.N. (2010). Deep Blue cannot play checkers: The need
for generalized intelligence for mobile robots. Journal of Robotics, 2010,
1-8.

Kelley, T. D. Avery, E. (2010). A cognitive robotics system: the symbolic
and sub-symbolic robotic intelligence control system (SS-RICS) Proc. SPIE
7710, 77100I (2010)

Kelley, T. D. (2006). Developing a psychologically 	inspired cognitive
architecture for robotic control: the Symbolic and Sub-symbolic Robotic
Intelligence Control System (SS-RICS). International Journal of Advanced
Robotic Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3. p 219-222.

Avery, E., Kelley, T. D., Davani, D.  (2006). Using Cognitive Architectures
to Improve Robot Control: Integrating Production Systems, Semantic Networks,
and Sub-Symbolic Processing. In Proceedings of 15th Annual Conference on
Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS).  May 15-19,
Baltimore, MD.


Troy Kelley
RDRL-HRS-E
Cognitive Robotics Team Leader
Human Research and Engineering Directorate
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Aberdeen, MD
21005
Voice :410-278-5869




Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE


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From jerry.ball.3 at us.af.mil  Mon May 12 09:21:32 2014
From: jerry.ball.3 at us.af.mil (BALL, JERRY T DR-03 USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:21:32 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Applicarions using ACT-R?
In-Reply-To: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>
References: <OFD4516CC2.FE2C4941-ON85257CD3.0073107D-85257CD3.00740C5D@us.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <9C6EE79ED01B1D488B417C3450ECEB670A322202@52ZHTX-D05-02B.area52.afnoapps.usaf.mil>

Bonnie,

Our ACT-R based synthetic teammate technology is intended to be used in the development of agents capable of functioning as human teammates in Air Force relevant training simulations. We are about to begin an evaluation study in which we hope to demonstrate that human teammates show a main learning effect when interacting with a synthetic teammate in a UAV reconnaissance mission domain, as they do when interacting with all human teammates. We are also planning to begin development of an agent that will be integrated into an Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) training simulation.

A description of the project is available at:

http://franz.com/success/customer_apps/intelligent_agents/afrl/afrl.lhtml 

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: ACT-R-users [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Bonnie E John
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 5:08 PM
To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Applicarions using ACT-R?

Hi folks,
I'll be giving a short presentation about ACT-R to an internal group at IBM next week and would like to highlight places where ACT-R is being used in practical applications other than academic research. 
I'll have time for just one slide on the theory, one slide on the variety of scientific models, and one slide on real-world applications. I don't want to miss anything in this third slide, hence this email.


*	CogTool is obviouslya real-world application (though its not using much of the ACT-R theory) -- I won't forget that one! ;-) 
*	I was going to talk about cognitive tutors, because even though I don't think the things out of CarnegieLearning actually use ACT-R, the understanding of human learning that preceded the commercial product was obtained from ACT-R models (e.g., showing the learning at the production level, not problem-difficulty level). (Please jump in and tell me if I am wrong about this, Ken or Al or anybody.)


I'm looking specifically for any application where anyone is making any money, or saving taxpayers money (for you government folks), or making something safer in the real world (e.g., identifying fatigue or driver distraction or whatever).

Thanks!
Bonnie




From 2429346468 at qq.com  Sun May 11 23:36:06 2014
From: 2429346468 at qq.com (=?gb18030?B?0+DQwrn6o6hYaW5ndW8gWXWjqQ==?=)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:36:06 +0800
Subject: [ACT-R-users] request a help
Message-ID: <tencent_0DF1095D07619CCD0B948777@qq.com>

Dear sir/Madam,


I am doing research related to your ACT-R so that I want to know more about your research, attend your Annual Workshop, and have a visit to your group.
Hence I request to be in your email list and to contact with your researchers.


Best Regards
YU  Xinguo
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From yulinqin at gmail.com  Tue May 13 21:56:20 2014
From: yulinqin at gmail.com (yulin qin)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:56:20 +0800
Subject: [ACT-R-users] request a help
In-Reply-To: <tencent_0DF1095D07619CCD0B948777@qq.com>
References: <tencent_0DF1095D07619CCD0B948777@qq.com>
Message-ID: <CAHZ4p4GTBa_eNxa2N6SY-p1akjYfJ6QRuv83NdTg6_smQ_3Cmw@mail.gmail.com>

Xinguo,

It seems you need to learn how to communicate with people. No one in
this list should answer any question for any person; however, if you
tell people something about yourself, your research interest, and the
specific questions, people with similar research interest may like to
discuss with you and help you.

For the general information about ACT-R, you can check the web of
ACT-R at http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/.

Good Luck,

- Yulin Qin


From gapri13 at gmail.com  Wed May 14 13:56:02 2014
From: gapri13 at gmail.com (Ganapathy Priya)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:56:02 -0700
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Set-similarities.
In-Reply-To: <D5AA20D9-06F2-4AA1-BB83-62542501B393@nrl.navy.mil>
References: <CAFZqDXFd_Vd1sp+s2L-d4m_i36JhMCoYgs6EmrNAwGBxe_z30Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <16C72D72A5BA298DE7E857D3@dan-HP-ubuntu>
 <D5AA20D9-06F2-4AA1-BB83-62542501B393@nrl.navy.mil>
Message-ID: <CAFZqDXHkNxcU-KjWfTwGs-Ln26K2iWtgKA9MRqfxJqTRD4usfg@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you Laura for sending the links.

Very interesting and relevant to our work.

I will let you know if I have more questions.

Thank you
Regards
Priya

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Laura Hiatt <laura.hiatt at nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> We recently modeled similarity between perceptual objects using perceptual similarity (such as the similarity of color RBG values) and activation:
>
> http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0126/paper0126.pdf
>
> It matches experimental data quite well and was learned over time (at least the BL / spreading activation part was - the perceptual similarity is currently static).  We're still actively working on this - happy to chat about it.
>
>
> Another paper that might be of use is:
>
> http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/WS/AAAIW11/paper/viewFile/3935/4300
>
> which uses ACT-R in conjunction with Leabra to classify visual objects.
>
> Best,
> Laura
>
>
> On May 9, 2014, at 9:04 PM, db30 at andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Friday, May 09, 2014 05:03:36 PM -0700 Ganapathy Priya <gapri13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear ACT-R users,
>>>
>>> We are working on modeling a task of visual object recognition. We
>>> would like to update the similarities of chunks (objects) as the model
>>> learns to recognize objects. We would like to start by making the
>>> set-similarities of chunks as 0 and then update the chunk
>>> (dis)similarities in small increments from 0 to -1 across several
>>> training rounds.
>>>
>>> Our chunks look like this: (add-dm (Caa1 isa object-content image "aa1"))
>>> (add-dm (Cab1 isa object-content image "ab1"))
>>>
>>> (set-similarities  (Caa1 Cab1 0))
>>>
>>> We are looking for sample codes that anybody can share where they have
>>> updated the chunk similarities during run-time. Any other functions to
>>> alter the similarities will also be useful.
>>>
>>
>> Set-similarities/set-similarities-fct is the only recommended command for
>> setting the similarites between chunks, but sdp/sdp-fct can also be used to
>> do so (see the reference manual for details).  Either of those commands
>> can be called at anytime to change similarites.  Alternatively, one can set
>> the :sim-hook parameter to specify a function which is used to compute
>> similarities "on the fly".  The assignment model in unit 5 of the ACT-R
>> tutorial uses that to set similarities between non-chunk values, but it can
>> also be used to dynamically compute chunk similaritles.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Dan
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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
>


From dds26 at drexel.edu  Fri May 16 08:48:10 2014
From: dds26 at drexel.edu (Salvucci,Dario)
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:48:10 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Workshop 2014
Message-ID: <A7A7EB2F-283F-4999-865A-3527F8769937@drexel.edu>

The ACT-R Workshop 2014 will be held as part of the Cognitive Science annual meeting:

   http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/workshops.html

The workshop this year will be organized around four themes: Neuroscience, Metacognition, Applications, and Architecture. We expect to discuss a wide range of issues that relate to cognitive architectures and cognitive modeling more generally; anyone interested in these issues (regardless of familiarity with ACT-R) is invited and encouraged to attend.

If you have an idea for a short presentation at the workshop, please email me <salvucci at drexel.edu<mailto:salvucci at drexel.edu>> a possible title and description.

Registration information should be available soon on the Cognitive Science web site.

Looking forward to a great meeting!
Dario



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 fer2 at psu.edu  Tue May 27 12:59:25 2014
From: fer2 at psu.edu (Frank Ritter)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 12:59:25 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModel notes: ICCM15/BRIMS14/books/prize/new
	society/Job
Message-ID: <5271259.BNWRYSXE@psu.edu>

This is the second emailing for ICCM 2015. Please forward if
appropriate to your members, and put appropriate links onto your web
site.

Normally, the ICCM 2015 announcement would drive this email (it will
be in Gronigen, near April 2015, on its regular (15/18 month)
schedule, this should be settled next month).  But, there are several
timely announcements that indicate new publication outlets, resources,
and jobs in Cog Sci and in cognitive modeling. I have also included
several unusual items, including an interesting conference and a
Kickstarter campaign!  Now in order: meetings, resources, jobs.

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-may2014.html]

cheers,

Frank Ritter        frank.e.ritter at gmail.com      http://www.frankritter.com
****************************************************************

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

2. WASET International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (!)
     [link suppressed]

:::: Other conferences, workshops
3. BRIMS 2014 proceedings online
     http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS/archives/2014/

4.  Cognitive Science Society annual meeting, 27 june early reg. deadline
     http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference_future.html

5. Cognitive Science Tutorial Program, 23 July 2014
     http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/tutorials.html

6.  ACT-R Workshop at Cognitive Science 2014
     http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/workshops.html
     [from act-r mailing list]

7. Soar Workshop, week of 16 June
    https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/workshop/

8.  3rd Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, May 2015
     http://www.cogsys.org/2015

9. BICA 2014 call for papers, due 26 May 2014, but other dates
    http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2014/

10. Nengo Summer School, 8-21 June
    http://nengo.ca/summerschool

11.  Summer School - Web Science & the Mind, 7-18 July, reg. still open
     http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/

12.  CFP for 2015 iConference in Newport Beach, CA, 24-27 March 2015
     http://ischools.org/the-iconference/   papers due 5 sept 2014

13. Intl. Summer School in Cog. Sci., 30 Jun-11 July, Bulgaria
     http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2014.html

14. 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, 21-23 Aug
     http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/ncpw14

15.  AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), papers due 13 June 14
     http://ai-hri.github.io/

::::  Other resources
16. OpenWorm Kickstarter Campaign
      http://www.openworm.org

17. Numerous books to review

18. Premodeling / HCI book
     FDUCs: What designers need to know about people
     http://www.frankritter.com/fducs/

19. New Society: The Society for Affective Science and Conference
     http://www.society-for-affective-science.org/conference

20. $10k prize for best paper in Human Factors journal, due 2 June 14
     http://www.hfes.org/web/pubpages/hfprize.html

::::  Jobs
21. Post doctoral Scholar in Systems Neuroscience and Connectivity Modeling
      http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/

****************************************************************
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.

****************************************************************
2. WASET International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (!)
     [link suppressed]

Cognitive modeling has grown, and we don't always know everyone doing
it any more.  But, it has also now grown enough that WASET, the
(so-called) World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology has
created a "WASET International Conference on Cognitive Modeling".

WASET has NO RELATION to the ICCM conference folks.

If you have any useful suggestions, please get in touch.  I've emailed
a few of their program committee members, where I could find their
addresses, to start a discussion. The program committee appears to be
made up of scholars from other areas, and I have confirmed that with
two of them, who don't know how to be removed.

References
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Academy_of_Science,_Engineering_and_Technology

    Google has plenty more information on WASET.

    Google: WASET International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2014
    will get you to the interesting conference.

[I now suggest that we put copyright on our web pages, and, realise that cognitive
modeling is now important enough to be copied (that is a neutral term) by WASAT.]

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3. BRIMS 2014 proceedings online
     http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS/archives/2014/

The Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS)
conference (http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2014/) was held 1-4 April.  It
was held with the Social computing, Behavioral-cultural modeling, and
Prediction (SBP) conference (http://sbp-conference.org/) in DC.

Its proceedings are online at
    http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS/archives/2014/

The place and time for next year are not yet announced.

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4.  Cognitive Science Society annual meeting, 27 june early reg. deadline
     http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference_future.html

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

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5. Cognitive Science Tutorial Program, 23 July 2014
     http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/tutorials.html

  Growth Curve Analysis: A Hands-On Tutorial on Using Multilevel
  Regression to Analyze Time Course Data
      Daniel Mirman

  Full Day Tutorial on Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision
      Zheng Wang, Jerome Busemeyer, Jennifer Trueblood

  Probability, programs, and the mind: Building structured Bayesian models of cognition
      Noah Goodman, Josh Tenenbaum

  Online Experiments using jsPsych, psiTurk, and Amazon Mechanical Turk
    Josh de Leeuw, Anna Coenen, Doug Markant, Jay B. Jay B. Martin,
    John McDonnell, Alexander Rich, Todd Gureckis

  Types and states: Mixture and hidden Markov models for cognitive science
      Ingmar Visser, Maarten Speekenbrink

  Practical Advice on How to Run Human Behavioral Studies
      Frank Ritter, Jong Kim

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6.  ACT-R Workshop at Cognitive Science 2014
     http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/workshops.html
     [from act-r mailing list]

The ACT-R Workshop 2014 will be held as part of the Cognitive Science
annual meeting:
http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2014/workshops.html

The workshop this year will be organized around four themes:
Neuroscience, Metacognition, Applications, and Architecture. We expect
to discuss a wide range of issues that relate to cognitive
architectures and cognitive modeling more generally; anyone interested
in these issues (regardless of familiarity with ACT-R) is invited and
encouraged to attend.

If you have an idea for a short presentation at the workshop, please
email me, salvucci at drexel.edu a possible title and description.

Registration information should be available soon on the Cognitive
Science web site.

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7. Soar Workshop, week of 16 June
    https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/workshop/

The Center for Cognitive Architecture at the University of Michigan
(http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soarweb/home) and Soar Technology
(http://www.soartech.com/) are pleased to announce that the 34th Soar
Workshop will be held the week of June 16, 2014 at the Computer
Science and Engineering building at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor.

For those of you not familiar with the Soar Workshop
(https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/workshop/), each year, members of
the Soar community -- faculty, scientists, graduate students,
technical staff and developers -- gather together for several days of
intensive interaction and exchange on Soar. The Soar community is
widely distributed geographically, so these workshops
(http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soar/soar_workshop_proceedings) provide an
opportunity to have face-to-face conversations, learn about the
current status of other participants' research and get previews of
what will happen in the future. We will try to give as many members of
the community as possible the opportunity to describe their research
or discuss the Soar issues that are of concern to them. This means the
time available per talk is quite short (typically either 5 or 15
minutes). Since workshop attendees are already entrenched in
the Soar world, brief talks that concentrate on only the essentials
work very well.

The workshop format is presentations only -- no formal papers.
[but slides are often collected]

There is no charge to attend the 33rd Soar Workshop although
registration at  https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/workshop/manage.php
this link is required. You may sign up to give talks of various
lengths as soon as you're registered. And then please upload a copy of
your presentation(s) by June 4th, 2013 via the
Soar Workshop registration page
(https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/workshop/manage.php).  Please make
sure to register as soon as possible so that we can plan
the workshop accordingly!

Questions and information regarding the workshop should be directed to
John Laird via (laird at umich.edu) email, mail or phone:

Soar Workshop 33
c/o John Laird
2260 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121      (734) 647-1761

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8.  3rd Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, May 2015
     http://www.cogsys.org/2015

We are currently in the process of organizing the 3rd Conference on
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS). We wanted to give you a heads up
that ACS will be moving to a spring conference. The next ACS will be
held at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia USA on May 29-31, 2015. The
paper submission deadline will be in February 2015.

As you may have heard, AAAI has moved to a winter conference to avoid
conflict with IJCAI (which has become an annual event). The ACS
organizing committee felt it best to avoid a collision with AAAI's
paper submission deadlines.  We hope that the ACS move to spring will
allow   the diverse and dynamic cognitive systems community to grow.

Please be on the look out for the call for papers in the coming months.

Best,
Ashok Goel and Mark Riedl
Co-Chairs, 3rd Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems

[there is also a mailing list that they have added people to:
    advances-cognitive-systems at lists.gatech.edu]

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9. BICA 2014 call for papers, due 26 May 2014, but other dates
    http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2014/

2014 Annual Intl Conf on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2014)
Fifth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society

November 7-9 (Friday-Sunday): MIT, Cambridge, MA
    (http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2014).
Sponsors: The BICA Society;  MIT; Elsevier B.V.

Points of contact: Paul Robertson (paulr at dollabs.com) and
    Alexei Samsonovich (alexei at bicasociety.org)

Call for Papers

Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) are computational
frameworks for building intelligent agents that are inspired from
biological intelligence.  Biological intelligent systems, notably
animals such as humans, have many qualities that are often lacking in
artificially designed systems including robustness, flexibility and
adaptability to environments.  At a point in time where visibility
into naturally intelligent systems is exploding, thanks to modern
brain imaging and recording techniques allowing us to map brain
structures and functions, our ability to learn lessons from nature and
to build biologically inspired intelligent systems has never been
greater.  At the same time, the growth in computer science and
technology has unleashed enough computational power at sufficiently
low prices, that an explosion of intelligent applications from
driverless vehicles, to augmented reality, to ubiquitous robots, is
now almost certain.  The growth in these fields challenges the
computational replication of all essential aspects of the human mind
(the BICA Challenge), an endeavor which is interdisciplinary in nature
and promises to yield bi-directional flow of understanding between all
involved disciplines.

Scope

With the scope of BICA 2014 covering all areas of BICA-related
research listed below, the major thrusts will be Perception,
Attention, and Language.  Here the key questions are:

? What can we learn from biological systems about how perception,
  attention, decision making, and action work together to produce
  intelligent behavior that is robust in natural environments?

? What have we learned about information flow in biological systems
  that can aid us in building better artificial systems that combine
  perception, action, language, learning, and decision making in robots
  and intelligent agents?

? What have we learned recently about information flow in the brain
  that can lead to better cognitive models that combine perception,
  attention, decision making, action, language, and learning?

? What role is played by emotions in perception, attention, decision
  making, language, and learning?

? How have we, or can we incorporate into cognitive architectures new
  evolving understandings about flow of information in biological
  cognitive systems?

? What mathematical foundations are emerging today that can support
  perception and learning?

In addition to these focus topic areas of BICA 2014, we encourage submission of papers in all areas of BICA research, especially in the following areas.

Neuroscience:  ....
Social, Economic and Educational Sciences:  ...
Cognitive Science:  ....
Artificial Intelligence:  ....
General: ....

Format and Agenda

The format of the conference is a 2.5-day meeting including paper
presentations, panel discussions, invited talks, and demonstration
showcases. Symposia and other mini-events (special sessions, breakout
groups, brainstorms, think-tanks, socials, contests, and more) as part
of the conference will be added as needed (proposals are
solicited). In addition, BICA 2014 will host a special track
"Doctorial Consortium" for which a "best student paper" award will be
presented.  We will also host technology demonstrations, for which we
solicit proposals, and a poster session.  We solicit additionally
proposals for panel topics. The working language is English. As a part
of our rich social and cultural program included in the registration,
we are planning a Welcome Reception and a boat trip into the Atlantic
on Saturday night, with a banquet on the boat. Detailed program is not
available yet. Please see our separate pages for Confirmed symposia
planned as part of BICA 2014 (we are asking for additional proposals).

Submission and Publication Venues

Publication venues include: (1) the Elsevier journal BICA - papers may
be distributed among several journal issues; and (2) a volume of
Procedia Computer Science, indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. One
EasyChair submission site will be used for all categories of
submissions, including (1), (2) and also (3): stand-alone abstracts
that will be included in the conference program brochure, without
being published. All submissions will undergo one round of
peer-reviews. The category may be changed based on reviews. All
conference materials (including papers and abstracts) will be together
made available locally for conference participants (included in the
registration package) via USB and/or the Internet. Invited speakers
are not required, but are encouraged to submit papers or
abstracts. Other participants can have presentations accepted based on
an abstract only, without a paper submission.

Core Organizing Committee

  Paul Robertson (DOLL, Inc.): General Chair
  Patrick H. Winston (CSAIL/MIT): Co-Chair
  Howard Shrobe (CSAIL/MIT): Co-Chair
  Alexei Samsonovich (GMU): Co-Chair, PC Chair
  Antonio Chella: OC Member
  Christian Lebiere: OC Member
  Kamilla R. Johannsdottir: OC Member

Important Dates

Proposals for Sub-Events:
  Symposia, Workshops and Socials - March 1
  Doctoral Consortium Submit - May 05
  Technology Demos - June 13
  Panel Session Interest - June 27

Paper and Abstract Submission:
  Paper and abstract submission opens - March 1st
  Abstract and Paper Submission Due - May 26*
  Paper Review Feedback - June 14*
  Final Papers Due - August 01
  Late-breaking stand-alone abstracts due - August 31

Registration and Conference:
  Early-bird registration (opens soon) due: June 17*
  Regular author-presenter registration due - June 27*
  Guest and non-presenting attendee online registration due - October 1
  Sessions of the conference BICA 2014: November 7-9

*Deadlines extended as of April 28

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10. Nengo Summer School, 8-21 June
    http://nengo.ca/summerschool

[From Chris Eliasmith, the registration is long past, but it's worth
noting that this is another cognitive architecture summer school,
which might be repeated.]

I thought you might have some acquaintances or students who would be
interested to know that we're hosting a summer school this year.  It
will be on all things Nengo & SPA.  We're encouraging people to bring
projects and/or data they'd like to turn into a detailed model.  We'll
have a very good instructor/student ratio (1:2).

It's more fully described here: http://nengo.ca/summerschool

The application deadline was Feb 15.

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11.  Summer School - Web Science & the Mind, 7-18 July, reg. still open
     http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/

[This appears to be a standing event that might be useful to modellers]

The Institut des Sciences Cognitives at UQAM (Montreal) is organising
its fifth Summer School, this year on the topic of "Web Science and
the Mind"

  * Topic includes social network analysis, semantic web, distributed cognition, ...
  * Scholarships (500$ + registration)
  * Call for posters
  * Can be worth 3 credits

Please contact us with any questions or comments you may have: summer14.isc at uqam.ca

Guillaume Chicoisne
Institut des sciences cognitives, Montreal
--------
The Fifth Summer School in Cognitive Sciences : Web Science and the Mind.
Organized by the UQAM Cognitive Science Institute in Montreal (Canada), from July 7 to 18.

Theme of the Summer Institute: Web Science and the Mind.

This summer school will present a comprehensive overview of the
interactions between the web and cognitive sciences, with topics
ranging from social network analysis to distributed cognition and
semantic web.

The Summer School will feature a poster session.
Information about this poster session is available at:
http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/affiche.php
Deadline: April 11th 2014

Registration for the Summer School is open (''Early Bird''
Registration fees until May 9th).

Note that the lowest fee is for students that will attend the Summer
School as a credited activity (worth 3 university credits). Details:
http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php

Scholarships for travel, accomodation and/or registration will be
available for students registered in a Quebec University (CREPUQ).
http://www.summer14.isc.uqam.ca/page/bourses.php

Want to stay in touch? Follow us on Twitter! @iscUQAM

We hope to see you there in July.

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12.  CFP for 2015 iConference in Newport Beach, CA, 24-27 March 2015
     http://ischools.org/the-iconference/   papers due 5 sept 2014

[This is a potential outlet, particularly for models applied to
  information systems]

[from CHI-announcements]

Call for Participation,  iConference 2015

http://ischools.org/the-iconference/

The iConference is an international gathering of scholars and researchers
concerned with critical information issues in contemporary society. iConference
2015 (http://ischools.org/the-iconference/) takes place March 24-27 in
Newport Beach, California. The following submissions are invited:

*Submission Type*
    *Deadline*
    *Notification*

Papers (http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/papers/)
    Friday, September 5, 2014, midnight PDT
    mid-November

Posters (http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/posters/)
    Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT
    mid-November

Workshops (http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/)
    Friday, September 26, 2014, midnight PDT
    Monday, October 27, 2014

Interactive Sessions (http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/sessions-for-interaction-and-engagement/)
    Friday, October 10, 2014, midnight PDT
    mid-November

Doctoral Colloquium: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/doctoral-colloquium/
    Friday, September 12, 2014, midnight PDT
    Friday, October 24, 2014

Social Media Expo (http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/social-media-expo/)
    Participation commitment letter due October 14, 2014;
        submissions due December 15, 2014.
    Thursday, January 15, 2015

Dissertation Award: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/dissertation-award/
    Wednesday, October 15, 2014, midnight PDT
    Thursday, January 15, 2015

iConference 2015 is presented by the iSchools organization
(http://ischools.org) and hosted by The Donald Bren School of
Information and Computer Sciences at University of California,
Irvine. All information researchers and scholars are welcome.

Sample topics of past iConferences include the following:

   ?  social computing           ?  human-computer interaction
   ?  digital youth                  ?  information retrieval
   ?  network science             ?  digital humanities
   ?  data science                   ?  information economics
   ?  information systems      ?  information policy
   ?  knowledge infrastructures    ?  computational social science
   ?  information work and workers    ?  user experience and design
   ?  data, text and knowledge mining
   ?  digital curation and preservation
   ?  computer-supported cooperative work
   ?  bibliometrics and scholarly communication
   ?  social, cultural, health and community informatics
   ?  information and communication technology for development
--
Gary M. Olson (949) 824-0077
Department of Informatics    gary.olson at uci.edu
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA  92697-3440

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13. Intl. Summer School in Cog. Sci., 30 Jun-11 July, Bulgaria
     http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2014.html

The 21st edition of the well-known International Summer School in
Cognitive Science will take place during the two weeks from June 30th
until July 11th at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

The summer school features advanced courses for graduate students and
young researchers in a variety of areas, including embodied cognition and
dynamic field theory, behavioral experimentation from reaction times to
model testing, computational approaches to development, the cognitive
science of social dilemmas, the epistemology of cognitive science and
neuroscience, and a practical course on working with E-prime as a software
tool for experiment design and implementation.

The summer school will also feature a participant symposium (submit your
brief papers to the school email below by June 9). Registration is now
open. For more information, visit the school's website:

http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2014.html

You can contact us at the following email address:
    school at cogs.nbu.bg

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14. 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, 21-23 Aug
     http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/ncpw14

NCPW14 Call for Papers - 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop

We cordially invite you to participate in the 14th Neural Computation
and Psychology Workshop (NCPW14) to be held at Lancaster University,
UK, from August 21-23, 2014:

http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/ncpw14

This well-established and lively workshop aims at bringing together
researchers from different disciplines such as artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, neurobiology,
philosophy and psychology to discuss their work on models of cognitive
processes.

Often this workshop has had a theme, and this time it is 'Development
across the lifespan', but also submissions that do not fall under this
theme are welcome.  Papers must be about emergent models - frequently,
but not necessarily - of the connectionist/neural network kind,
applied to cognition.

The NCPW workshops have always been characterized by their limited
size, high quality papers, the absence of parallel talk sessions, and
a schedule that is explicitly designed to encourage interaction among
the researchers present in an informal setting. NCPW14 is no
exception.

The scientific program will consist of keynote lectures, oral sessions
and poster sessions.

Furthermore, this workshop will feature a unique set of invited speakers:

  James McClelland, Stanford University.
  Bob McMurray, University of Iowa.
  Michael Thomas, Birkbeck College, London.

Rumelhart Memorial Travel Awards

The Rumelhart Memorial Travel awards, generously funded by Professor
Jay McClelland, will provide funding to support travel costs for
students/post docs presenting at the conference. Awards of US$250 are
available to students or post docs from Western European countries,
and US$750 for students or post docs from elsewhere. Decisions will be
based on the quality of the submission.

Eligibility criteria

The first author of the submission is a PhD student or Post-doctoral
fellow who will attend the meeting and will present the submission if
chosen to receive a travel award.

Location

Lancaster is situated in the north west of England, approximately one
hour from Manchester and Liverpool airports. Lancaster is surrounded
by spectacular scenery, hiking and climbing country. The Yorkshire
Dales national park is 10 miles away. The Lake District national park
is 20 miles away, http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk. The stagecoach 555
bus (http://www.stagecoachbus.com) takes you directly from Lancaster
through the heart of the Lakes. The Trough of Bowland Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty is 2 miles away.

Important dates to remember

  Abstract deadline:     15 May
  Notification of abstract acceptance: 7 June
  Early registration deadline: tbc
  Online registration deadline: tbc
  Conference dates: 21-23 August, 2014

Looking forward to your participation!

Organizing Committee
  Gert Westermann, Lancaster University
  Padraic Monaghan, Lancaster University
  Katherine E. Twomey, Liverpool University
  Alastair C. Smith, MPI Nijmegen

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Prof. Gert Westermann           +44 (0)1524 592-942
Department of Psychology    g.westermann at lancaster.ac.uk
Lancaster University        http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/gert-westermann
Lancaster LA1 4YF

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15.  AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), papers due 13 June 14
     http://ai-hri.github.io/

AAAI Fall Symposium:
AI for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI)
Nov 13-15, 2014 -- Arlington, VA

http://ai-hri.github.io/

2 page abstracts due June 13
Email as a pdf to: ai-hri-symposium-submissions at googlegroups.com

This symposium will bring together and strengthen the community of
researchers working on the AI challenges inherent to Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI). Humans and human environments bring with them
inherent uncertainty in dynamics, structure, and interaction. HRI aims
to develop robots that are intelligent, autonomous, and capable of
interacting with, modeling, and learning from humans. These goals are
at the core of AI.

The field of HRI is a broad community encompassing robotics, AI, HCI,
psychology and social science.  In this meeting we aim to specifically
bring together the subset of this community that are focused on the AI
problems of HRI.  Currently this type of HRI work is seen across such
a variety of venues (HRI, RSS, ICRA, IROS, Ro-Man, RoboCup, and more),
that we lack a cohesive core community.  Building this community is
the central purpose of this symposium.

Planned activities:
  - Keynote talks "How is HRI an AI problem?": We will have keynotes
     giving eight different perspectives about how AI research is
     going to bring us closer to the reality of humans interacting
     with robots on everyday tasks.

 - Breakout groups + panel discussions: these discussions will be
    focused on (1) defining a road map of grand challenges for this
    research area, and (2) what is the core venue for this community.

 - Poster session: This session will highlight state-of-the-art work
    and approaches to AI-HRI.

- Team building: Given the diverse set of venues that this type of
   research is presented, it is very rare that members of the AI-HRI
   community get together in the same room. As such, a large part of this
   effort is to bring together a community of researchers, strengthen old
   connections and build new ones. Ample time will be provided for
   networking and informal discussions.

Confirmed speakers:
   - Rodney Brooks          - Cynthia Breazeal
   - Henrik Christensen   - Maja Mataric
   - Manuela Veloso

Important dates:

  - To have your work featured in the poster session, submit a two-page
     abstract by 13 June 14. Email your submission as a pdf to
     ai-hri-symposium-submissions at googlegroups.com
  - Decisions will be returned by July 11, 2014
  - The symposium will be held Nov 13-15, 2014 in Arlington, VA.

Organizing committee:
  - Andrea L. Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology  (chair)
  - Kris Hauser, Indiana University
  - Chad Jenkins, Brown University
  - Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California
  - Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
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16. OpenWorm Kickstarter Campaign
      http://www.openworm.org

[from Comp-neuro at neuroinf.org]
[this is cool and interesting on several levels and ways]

From: Shreejoy Tripathy <stripathy at chibi.ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:31:07 -0700
To: comp-neuro at neuroinf.org, connectionists at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: [Comp-neuro] OpenWorm Kickstarter Campaign

I'm writing to let you know about the OpenWorm Kickstarter Campaign
(https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser). As
you may know, the goal of the OpenWorm project is to digitally
simulate a C. Elegans organism. By design, the project is organized in
a geographically distributed fashion and all of the work is being done
in the open (on GitHub and Youtube) using entirely open source code
and public data.

Though I'm not a worm researcher, I'm supporting OpenWorm's
Kickstarter because I strongly believe in their overall mission. As a
computational neuroscientist, I see the project as a necessary first
step in the simulation of more complex organisms, including mice and
ultimately humans. Moreover, I see my Kickstarter contribution as a
future investment in the open source tools and methodologies that
OpenWorm develops that I hope to eventually use in my own research.

More philosophically, I think that lately the field of neuroscience
has suffered from some amount of "overhype", especially given the
initially promised outcomes of recent large-scale brain initiatives
(e.g., recording from all neurons in a mammalian brain, simulating an
entire human brain). While these projects have been hugely successful
in catalyzing widespread public support of basic neuroscience
research, many neuroscientists see these promises as perhaps a bridge
too far given the current research state.

Though OpenWorm's goals are itself highly ambitious, the relative
simplicity of the worm (named neurons, stereotyped connectomes and
musculature, the ability to image neuronal activity in vivo) lends
itself well to this attempt. By conducting the project in the open and
basing success on quantifiable goals (i.e., how similar are the
simulated worm's movements and neural activity to experimental
measurements), the project will serve as a roadmap for future
endeavours in multi-scale data integration and organismal simulation.

Lastly, the geographically distributed and highly interdisciplinary
nature of the project makes it challenging to receive funding through
traditional NIH-style mechanisms. For this reason, I'm asking you to
join me in supporting the project's Kickstarter campaign.

More information:

OpenWorm Website: http://www.openworm.org

Kickstarter campaign link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser

Project overview by OpenWorm member and neuroscientist Jim Hokanson: http://jimandscience.blogspot.ca/2014/05/modeling-worm-thoughts-on-openworm.html

OpenWorm QandA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/246dlw/science_ama_series_im_stephen_larson_project/

Sincerely,

Shreejoy Tripathy
Post-doc and Developer of http://neuroelectro.org
University of British Columbia
Centre for High-Throughput Biology

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17. 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.

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems:  What system
  designers need to know about people, Frank Ritter, Gordon Baxter, &
  Elizabeth Churchill. (2014).  Springer.
  http://www.frankritter.com/fducs/

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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18. Premodeling / HCI book
     FDUCs: What designers need to know about people
     http://www.frankritter.com/fducs/

We have published book that is in many ways an HCI book, its first use
is as a Human-computer interaction textbook (it has been used in at
least 4 universities), but it is also a modeling book -- It is
designed to create models of users in designers heads.

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems:  What system
  designers need to know about people, Frank Ritter, Gordon Baxter, &
  Elizabeth Churchill. (2014).  Springer.

If your library subscribes to Springer link, you can get a pdf from
there.  If you want a desk copy, there are links from the site above
to order one. If all else fails, contact me.  I use it to teach HCI,
as have several at other universities and several penn state campuses.

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19. New Society: The Society for Affective Science and Conference
     http://www.society-for-affective-science.org/conference

A new society has been formed -- The Society for Affective
Science. Its mission is to foster basic and applied research in the
variety of fields that study affect, broadly defined.

Our inaugural conference will be April 24-26, 2014 in Washington DC.
This conference will be student-friendly, open, and theoretically and
methodologically diverse. It will provide a forum for cross-cutting
work in emotion, stress, and many other topics that fall under the
broad umbrella of affective science.

For more information see the society website:

  http://www.society-for-affective-science.org/

Program highlights for the first meeting can be found at:

  http://www.society-for-affective-science.org/conference/highlights/

As you will see, the first meeting features an invited program of
talks in addition to a call for posters.  We expect the program to
shift to submissions as the society develops.  Currently, the meeting
is largely single tracked, and in addition to the invited addresses
and presidential symposium, the program includes methodology lunches,
salons with well-known affective scientists, and a debate to keep
things lively.

Please feel free to send this email to your students, postdocs, and
colleagues. If you have questions, please email us at:

  info at society-for-affective-science.org

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20. $10k prize for best paper in Human Factors journal, due 2 June 14
     http://www.hfes.org/web/pubpages/hfprize.html

[this appears to becoming an annual prize, modeling papers get
  published in HF and there are modellers as editors and reviewers]

Submit your research for the 2014 Human Factors Prize--You could win $10,000!

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) welcomes your
submission for the 2014 Human Factors Prize: Recognizing Excellence in
Human Factors/Ergonomics Research. The best paper will receive:

  $10,000 cash award

  Publication in the Society's flagship journal,
  (http://content.news.sagepub.com/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=22230&m=4655&l=10&e=2&x=2457051.0)
  Human Factors

The 2014 topic is human-automation interaction/autonomy. We seek articles that describe human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) research that pertains to effective and satisfying interaction between humans and automation. Plan to submit your work between April 1 and June 2, 2014.

Eligibility Requirements:

Any researcher is eligible to submit relevant work; membership in HFES
is not required.  Submissions must cover original (unpublished)
research in the topical area and comply with the requirements in the
Human Factors
(http://content.news.sagepub.com/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=22230&m=4655&l=12&e=2&x=2457051.0)
instructions for authors.

Review articles and brief reports are not eligible.

Submissions must not be received prior to April 1 or after June 2, 2014.

To see examples of articles on subject matter similar to the 2014
Prize topic, visit the Human Factors Prize Web page
(http://content.news.sagepub.com/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=22230&m=4655&l=9&e=2&x=2457051.0)

The award will be formally conferred at a special session at the
HFES International Annual Meeting, where the recipient will present his or her work
(http://content.news.sagepub.com/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=22230&m=4655&l=13&e=2&x=2457051.0)

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
(HFS) is a peer-reviewed journal presenting original works of
scientific merit that contribute to the understanding and advancement
of the systematic consideration of people in relation to machines,
systems, tools, and environments. HFS highlights fundamental human
capabilities, limitations, and tendencies, as well as the basics of
human performance.

Human Factors
  Impact Factor: 1.182
  Ranked: 7/16 in Ergonomics | 21/44 in Engineering, Industrial |
  39/72 in Psychology, Applied | 44/49 in Behavioral Sciences |
  51/75 in Psychology
    Source: 2012 Journal Citation Reports(R) (Thomson Reuters, 2013)

Questions? Contact HFES Communications Director Lois Smith at
lois at hfes.org. We look forward to receiving your submission.

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21. Post doctoral Scholar in Systems Neuroscience and Connectivity Modeling
      http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/

[this was announced in February, but is still up on the web site]

Post doctoral Scholar in Systems Neuroscience and Connectivity Modeling
Job Number: 41202

Affirmative Action Search No. #: 021-320

Department: Psychology

Rank: Post Doc

Announcement: We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar
in the area of clinical/cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging, and
network modeling. The successful candidate will work in collaboration
with investigators at The Pennsylvania State University including Dr.
Hillary in Psychology, Dr. Reka Albert in Physics and Dr. Peter
Molenaar in Human Development and Family Studies. The goals of the
research focus 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 focus on issues regarding: 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 by the appointment
date. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a
background in computational modeling (broadly defined) is required and
programming experience is preferred. Review of applications will begin
in February and continue until the position is filled. The appointment
is for two years with a tentative start date flexible. To apply, submit cover letter,
curriculum vita, and the names and contact information for three
references through http://www.la.psu.edu/facultysearch/
For additional information, contact Frank G. Hillary, fhillary at psu.edu.

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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From glenn.gunzelmann at us.af.mil  Wed May 28 21:36:06 2014
From: glenn.gunzelmann at us.af.mil (GUNZELMANN, GLENN F DR-03 USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 01:36:06 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] CfP: Workshop on AGI & CogSci
Message-ID: <5CC9CA51959B144AA55D3C7CAF41791B2BDB18E3@52ZHTX-D08-01A.area52.afnoapps.usaf.mil>


Call for Papers: AGI-2014 Workshop on AGI and Cognitive Science

To be held in during the Seventh Conference on Artificial General
Intelligence, 1-4 August 2014, in Quebec City, Canada.

The conference and workshop will be co-located with CogSci 2014 (July 23-26)
and AAAI-14 (July 27-31).

The workshop will emphasize the relationship of building and studying
human-like artificial intelligence to other aspects and domains of Cognitive
Science.

The submission page and instructions can be found on EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agicogsci2014

A full description of the workshop aims and focus is here:
http://agi-conf.org/2014/workshop-on-agi-and-cognitive-science/

The submission deadline has been extended to June 13.

Contributions should be submitted in the form of extended abstracts (ca. 4-8
pages in LNCS format).  The submission deadline for extended abstracts is
June 15, 2014. Accepted contributions will be presented as talks of about 20
minutes length, and concluded with a public discussion. Workshop proceedings
will be posted online.

We look forward to your contributions!

Joscha Bach & Glenn Gunzelmann, Workshop Organizers




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From bejohn at us.ibm.com  Thu May 29 11:03:40 2014
From: bejohn at us.ibm.com (Bonnie E John)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 11:03:40 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R influencing neuroscience?
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HI folks,
I know that there is lots of ACT-R research using fMRI to map the operation
of ACT-R to brain functions, but has there been any explicit influence of
ACT-R modeling on mainstream neuroscience research?
That is, have any researchers who's main or original focus used
neuroscience techniques who said "Hey, ACT-R predicts X -- how would it
change my own theories if it were true?  Let me go test it."
I looked at the Pubs page, but nothing "popped" out as answering this
question to my ignorant-of-neuroscience eyes.
Thanks,
Bonnie
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From cl at cmu.edu  Thu May 29 16:11:07 2014
From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:11:07 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R influencing neuroscience?
In-Reply-To: <OF0253544A.430132BA-ON85257CE7.005296C1-85257CE7.0052BB41@us.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <CFAD0C9B.327E2%cl@cmu.edu>

Bonnie,

I don't know if that quite qualifies as an "explicit influence of ACT-R
modeling on mainstream neuroscience research", but in this paper
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/921695) we used ACT-R models as prototypes
for neural (spec. Leabra) models of complex sensemaking tasks (see section
3.2 in particular):

Christian Lebiere, Peter Pirolli, Robert Thomson, et al., ?A Functional
Model of Sensemaking in a Neurocognitive Architecture,??Computational
Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2013, Article ID 921695, 29 pages, 2013.
doi:10.1155/2013/921695

Neural models used ACT-R models as modeling templates (adopting the same
knowledge representation and procedures), explicit teachers (using model
output to train the neural model) and human oracles (using model output to
evaluate the output of the neural model when human data was unavailable).

Christian


On 5/29/14 11:03 AM, "Bonnie E John" <bejohn at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> HI folks,
> I know that there is lots of ACT-R research using fMRI to map the operation
> of ACT-R to brain functions, but has there been any explicit influence of
> ACT-R modeling on mainstream neuroscience research?
> That is, have any researchers who's main or original focus used
> neuroscience techniques who said "Hey, ACT-R predicts X -- how would it
> change my own theories if it were true?  Let me go test it."
> I looked at the Pubs page, but nothing "popped" out as answering this
> question to my ignorant-of-neuroscience eyes.
> Thanks,
> Bonnie
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