From michael.furlong at uwaterloo.ca Fri Nov 15 09:22:19 2024 From: michael.furlong at uwaterloo.ca (Michael Furlong) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:22:19 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Meetings] 2025 Nengo Summer School Call For Applications Message-ID: Dear colleagues, [All details about this school can be found online at https://www.nengo.ai/summer-school] The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo is excited to announce our 10th annual Nengo summer school on large-scale brain modelling and neuromorphic computing. This two-week school will teach participants to use the Nengo simulation package to build state-of-the-art cognitive and neural models to run both in simulation and on neuromorphic hardware. Summer school participants will be given on-site access to neuromorphic hardware and will learn to run high-level applications using Nengo! More generally, Nengo provides users with a versatile and powerful environment for designing cognitive and neural systems and has been used to build what is currently the world's largest functional brain model, Spaun, which includes spiking deep learning, reinforcement learning, adaptive motor control, and cognitive control networks. For a look at the last in-person summer school, check out this short video: https://youtu.be/nFYTqieEnSY We welcome applications from all interested graduate students, postdocs, professors, and industry professionals with a relevant background. ***Application Deadline: February 1, 2025*** Format: A combination of tutorials and project-based work. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas for projects, which may focus on testing hypotheses, modelling neural or cognitive data, implementing specific behavioural functions with neurons, expanding past models, or providing a proof-of-concept of various neural mechanisms. Hands-on tutorials, work on individual or group projects, and talks from invited faculty members will make up the bulk of day-to-day activities. A project demonstration event will be held on the last day of the school, with prizes for strong projects! Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to: * interface Nengo with various kinds of neuromorphic hardware (e.g. BrainDrop, SpiNNaker) * build perceptual, motor, and sophisticated cognitive models using spiking neurons * model anatomical, electrophysiological, cognitive, and behavioural data * use a variety of single cell models within a large-scale model * integrate machine learning methods into biologically oriented models * interface Nengo with cameras and robotic systems * implement modern nonlinear control methods in neural models * and much more? Date and Location: June 1st to June 13th, 2025 at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Applications: Please visit http://www.nengo.ai/summer-school, where you can find more information regarding costs, travel, lodging, along with an application form listing required materials. If you have any questions about the school or the application process, please contact Michael Furlong (michael.furlong at uwaterloo.ca). The school is partly supported by ABR, Inc. We look forward to hearing from you! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maudette at odu.edu Wed Nov 20 13:49:36 2024 From: maudette at odu.edu (Audette, Michel A.) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:49:36 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear members of the ACT-R users list, I'm intrigued by ACT-R, having just heard about it at a conference last week, and in particular, I'd like to find out if there is any work that uses ACT-R in conjunction with a musculoskeletal model of the human, while performing a specific activity (a human operator). In other words, the cognitive processes of an operator of a system (welding, flight, athlete, clinical, military, etc) along with tracking of his/her gestures in conjunction with this system operation. I would like to couple I'm a biomedical engineer with interests in both medical simulation and human performance modeling, and I am trying to develop a hybrid human model toward a simulation of the human performance type. I will probably have more questions for you as my interest in this evolves. Thanks for your kind consideration. Best wishes, Michel Audette, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. maudette at odu.edu; office phone: 757-683-6940. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maudette at odu.edu Thu Nov 21 15:50:52 2024 From: maudette at odu.edu (Audette, Michel A.) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:50:52 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear members of the ACT-R community, I'm chairing Modeling & Simulation in Medicine as part of ANNSIM next year, in Madrid (annsim.org) . Here is the flyer. I encourage members of the ACT-R community to submit papers related to cognition simulation, since one of the themes is human performance models. Best wishes, Michel Michel Audette, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. maudette at odu.edu; office phone: 757-683-6940. ________________________________ From: ACT-R-users on behalf of Audette, Michel A. Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 1:49 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Cc: michael.young at mgh.harvard.edu ; bschwartz at mti-inc.com Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? EXTERNAL to ODU: This email is not from an ODU account. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear members of the ACT-R users list, I'm intrigued by ACT-R, having just heard about it at a conference last week, and in particular, I'd like to find out if there is any work that uses ACT-R in conjunction with a musculoskeletal model of the human, while performing a specific activity (a human operator). In other words, the cognitive processes of an operator of a system (welding, flight, athlete, clinical, military, etc) along with tracking of his/her gestures in conjunction with this system operation. I would like to couple I'm a biomedical engineer with interests in both medical simulation and human performance modeling, and I am trying to develop a hybrid human model toward a simulation of the human performance type. I will probably have more questions for you as my interest in this evolves. Thanks for your kind consideration. Best wishes, Michel Audette, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. maudette at odu.edu; office phone: 757-683-6940. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: MSM_2024_CFPMAUpdated111724.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 88799 bytes Desc: MSM_2024_CFPMAUpdated111724.pdf URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Nov 21 16:22:05 2024 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:22:05 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't know of any ACT-R work in that area, and the standard ACT-R distribution only provides fairly simple motor functions for interacting with a computer (keyboard and mouse) which are based on the Manual Motor Processor from the EPIC architecture. There is a mechanism in ACT-R for extending the motor functionality through its existing motor module, and one could also add a new module if needed for more complex tasks like some of those that you mentioned. So, it would be possible to extend the system for such work, but it would likely require some significant work to implement. Hope that helps, Dan On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:50?PM Audette, Michel A. wrote: > Dear members of the ACT-R users list, > > I'm intrigued by ACT-R, having just heard about it at a conference last > week, and in particular, I'd like to find out if there is any work that > uses ACT-R in conjunction with a musculoskeletal model of the human, while > performing a specific activity (a human operator). In other words, the > cognitive processes of an operator of a system (welding, flight, athlete, > clinical, military, etc) along with tracking of his/her gestures in > conjunction with this system operation. I would like to couple > > I'm a biomedical engineer with interests in both medical simulation and > human performance modeling, and I am trying to develop a hybrid human model > toward a simulation of the human performance type. > > I will probably have more questions for you as my interest in this > evolves. Thanks for your kind consideration. > > Best wishes, > > > Michel Audette, Ph.D. > Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, > Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering, > Old Dominion University, > Norfolk, VA. > maudette at odu.edu; office phone: 757-683-6940. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kgluck at ihmc.org Thu Nov 21 17:18:06 2024 From: kgluck at ihmc.org (Kevin Gluck) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:18:06 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Michel, The intersection of capabilities you describe below aligns well with combinations of our interests at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition. We have a small, enthusiastic, and (hopefully) growing ACT-R research group, as well as a broad organizational commitment to research in Human Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance, as well as a distinguished research history in exoskeletons for human assistance and augmentation. I will follow up with you in a separate email to find a time for an initial discussion. Best regards, _______ Kevin Gluck, PhD Senior Research Scientist Institute for Human & Machine Cognition From: ACT-R-users On Behalf Of Audette, Michel A. Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 12:50 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Cc: michael.young at mgh.harvard.edu; bschwartz at mti-inc.com Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? Dear members of the ACT-R users list, I'm intrigued by ACT-R, having just heard about it at a conference last week, and in particular, I'd like to find out if there is any work that uses ACT-R in conjunction with a musculoskeletal model of the human, while performing a specific activity (a human operator). In other words, the cognitive processes of an operator of a system (welding, flight, athlete, clinical, military, etc) along with tracking of his/her gestures in conjunction with this system operation. I would like to couple I'm a biomedical engineer with interests in both medical simulation and human performance modeling, and I am trying to develop a hybrid human model toward a simulation of the human performance type. I will probably have more questions for you as my interest in this evolves. Thanks for your kind consideration. Best wishes, Michel Audette, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. maudette at odu.edu; office phone: 757-683-6940. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maudette at odu.edu Fri Nov 22 08:33:09 2024 From: maudette at odu.edu (Audette, Michel A.) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:33:09 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Kevin, Thanks for your kind reply. I'm keen to find out more about your group. Ben, copied here, is the expert in all things ACT-R related, while I'm familiar with OpenSim, and Michael is a board-certified neurologist. We only recently met at a conference, and this theme of a hybrid human model is the central theme in our collaboration. I have a basic understanding of neurology as well, having done my PhD at the Montreal Neurological Institute and contributed to neurosurgery navigation I also teach a course on psychophysics of the visual system can drive software development. However my understanding of cognitive modeling is in its infancy. My assumption is that if we model the operator function based on tasks (an ontological workflow), we can make the coupling with the functional simulation better posed. Warm wishes, Michel Michel Audette, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. maudette at odu.edu; office phone: 757-683-6940. ________________________________ From: Kevin Gluck Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2024 5:18 PM To: Audette, Michel A. ; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu ; Kevin Gluck Cc: michael.young at mgh.harvard.edu ; bschwartz at mti-inc.com Subject: RE: ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? EXTERNAL to ODU: This email is not from an ODU account. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Michel, The intersection of capabilities you describe below aligns well with combinations of our interests at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition. We have a small, enthusiastic, and (hopefully) growing ACT-R research group, as well as a broad organizational commitment to research in Human Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance, as well as a distinguished research history in exoskeletons for human assistance and augmentation. I will follow up with you in a separate email to find a time for an initial discussion. Best regards, _______ Kevin Gluck, PhD Senior Research Scientist Institute for Human & Machine Cognition From: ACT-R-users On Behalf Of Audette, Michel A. Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 12:50 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Cc: michael.young at mgh.harvard.edu; bschwartz at mti-inc.com Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R: any work combining cognition with motion capture/musculoskeletal simulation? Dear members of the ACT-R users list, I'm intrigued by ACT-R, having just heard about it at a conference last week, and in particular, I'd like to find out if there is any work that uses ACT-R in conjunction with a musculoskeletal model of the human, while performing a specific activity (a human operator). In other words, the cognitive processes of an operator of a system (welding, flight, athlete, clinical, military, etc) along with tracking of his/her gestures in conjunction with this system operation. I would like to couple I'm a biomedical engineer with interests in both medical simulation and human performance modeling, and I am trying to develop a hybrid human model toward a simulation of the human performance type. I will probably have more questions for you as my interest in this evolves. Thanks for your kind consideration. 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