From gray at gmu.edu Tue Jul 25 21:23:22 1995 From: gray at gmu.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:23:22 -0400 Subject: Forgot to mention this Message-ID: Greetings, I meant to plug this during the ACT-R workshop. In all the excitment over new developments and interesting research presentations it slipped my mind. Please think about pulling something together. It would be nice to have a strong ACT-R presence in this special issue (not that the editors are biased one way or the other). Cheers, Wayne ############################################# Papers invited for a special issue of Human-Computer Interaction journal on the topic of "Cognitive Architectures and HCI" SPECIAL ISSUE TOPIC: Cognitive Architectures and HCI The use of cognitive architectures is beginning to have an interesting but little noted effect on the types of user modeling applied to HCI issues. In the past, the software used to construct user models was either very generic (as in the use of OPS5) or hand- crafted by the individual modeler. Recently this has changed. At first generic connectionist architectures and, more recently, symbol manipulation and/or hybrid architectures (Soar, ACT-R, CAPS, CI, and EPIC) have entered the public domain as systems that are centrally supported and whose use has spread beyond their developers. What is gained and what is lost by this trend? Following a workshop at CHI'95, the journal Human-Computer Interaction plans to publish a special issue on the subject of Cognitive Archictures and HCI, to be edited by Wayne Gray, Susan Kirschenbaum and Richard Young. We are soliciting high quality manuscripts, either substantive research contributions or review papers, on any aspect of the use of cognitive architectures for the modeling, analysis and solution of HCI problems. Example topics include (but are not limited to): 1. Which architectures are best for which kinds of analyses and problems? 2. The methodology appropriate to the development and use of models based on a cognitive architecture. 3. The theoretical basis for cognitive user models. 4. Comparison of cognitive modeling and other approaches for addressing HCI problems. Please note that normal rigorous journal refereeing standards will apply. To aid cohesion and quality, all papers will be cross- refereed by the authors of other papers in the special issue, as well as by reviewers from outside the group. People submitting papers may therefore be asked to contribute to the review process. Submission format: We would prefer electronic submission in the first instance, in one of the following two formats. (1) If the manuscript is a Microsoft Word document, then please send it as a BinHex'd (e.g. "attached") file. (2) Otherwise send it as a printable PostScript file. In either case, please email the file to gray at gmu.edu . If electronic submission is not feasible, then please send 7 copies of the manuscript (by Air Mail if from outside N America) to Wayne D. Gray Associate Professor of Psychology George Mason University m/s 3f5 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 U S A Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: 1st November 1995. ===================================================================== #=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=# Wayne D. Gray, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Fellow of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study George Mason University m/s 3f5 EMAIL: gray at gmu.edu 4400 University Drive TEL: +1 (703) 993-1344 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 FAX: +1 (703) 993-1359 #=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#=#