[ACT-R-users] Human Performance Modeling -- new Technical Group

[Wayne Gray]

Friends,

Dick Pew and I are co-organizing a new Technical Group on Human 
Performance Modeling that will be based in the Human Factors and 
Ergonomics Society.

The requirements to form a new TG include getting 200 people (min) to 
express their support. HFES sees TGs as a way of bringing new blood 
into the organization so they are quite happy if half of the 
supporters are NOT current members of HFES.

If you are at all interested please go to:

http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/hpm-tg/

There you will find:

A. Information on "Why" a new TG in HFES on HPM is a good idea; an 
assessment of its likely impact on existing modeling conferences and 
groups; why situating the HPM-TG within HFES is a good idea; the 
philosophy of the HFES Conferences that makes them an ideal venue for 
presenting work-in-progress; etc.

B. A draft of the "Proposal" that Dick and I will submit to HFES' 
Council of Technical Groups once we obtain > 200 expressions of 
interest

C. A form that asks you for your name, email, affiliation, and a few 
questions. Once you click "submit" your info will be saved to a dbase.

I think this is an exciting venture and an idea whose time has come. 
It is in part a result of the continuing inspiration I have drawn 
from Newell & Card (1985) over the years, as well as a direct result 
of the excitement that greeted the recent special issue that Mike 
Byrne and I did for the Human Factors journal.

So -- please check out the website, read our materials, download 
them, and sign up as a supporter of this new group.

Wayne


Byrne, M. D., & Gray, W. D. (2003). Returning human factors to an 
engineering discipline: Expanding the science base through a new 
generation of quantitative methods - Preface to the special section. 
Human Factors, 45(1), 1-4.

Newell, A., & Card, S. K. (1985). The prospects for psychological 
science in human-computer interaction. Human-Computer Interaction, 
1(3), 209-242.
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