<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>This upcoming APA conference on Technology, Mind, & Society may be of interest to many of you. See attached or: <a href="http://www.apascience.org/conference/index.html" class="">http://www.apascience.org/conference/index.html</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 600px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="padding: 0in 0in 18.75pt; max-width: 600px;" class=""><div align="center" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 600px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="background-color: white; padding: 18.75pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><div align="center" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 550px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="padding: 0in;" class=""><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The American Psychological Association will hold an interdisciplinary conference on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lmail2r.apa.org:1892/trk/click?ref=zp000s09a_1-1c69x329b4x0638&" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Technology, Mind, and Society</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Washington, D.C., on April 5-7, 2018. Scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and students from around the world are invited to participate in the event.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The conference will provide a venue for reporting and assessing current efforts to understand and shape the interactions of human beings and technology, for identifying priorities for future work, and for promoting exchange and collaboration among participants. The conference will feature four keynote speakers: Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Justine Cassell (Carnegie Mellon), Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), and Sandy Pentland (MIT).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">APA invites you and your colleagues and students to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lmail2r.apa.org:1892/trk/click?ref=zp000s09a_1-1c69x329b8x0638&" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">submit</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>papers, symposia, and posters for this conference, which will be organized around the following broad themes:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Basic research:</span></em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How humans understand and use technology, impacts of technology on human experience and behavior, human-technology interactions as mutually adaptive systems, role of technology in advancing other areas of scientific research, and related topics.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Foundations of technology design:</span></em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Development of technologies informed by psychological, behavioral, and social science research.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Applications:</span></em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Development, use, and impact of specific technologies in domains such as aging, education, mental and physical health, recreation, and the workplace.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Broader implications:</span></em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ethical and policy questions concerning the opportunities and challenges arising from human-technology interactions.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The deadline for submissions is October 20, 2017. Submissions can be made<a href="http://lmail2r.apa.org:1892/trk/click?ref=zp000s09a_1-1c69x329b9x0638&" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">here</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The conference is open to researchers, professionals, and students in all relevant areas, including psychology and other behavioral and social sciences, neuroscience, computer science, engineering, design, health research, education research, city and regional planning, public policy, history of science and technology, and philosophy.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The conference aims to address the full range of contemporary and emerging technologies. These include but are not limited to artificial intelligence, robotics, mobile devices, social media, virtual/augmented reality, gaming, geographic information systems, autonomous vehicles, and biomedical technologies (e.g., brain-machine interfaces, genetic engineering).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">APA is sponsoring the conference in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery — Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><img border="0" width="550" id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://www.apascience.org/conference/sponsors.png" class=""><br class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">We look forward to seeing you at the Technology, Mind, and Society Conference! 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