[SIGCIS-Members] Singapore Call for Papers -- Panel on Computation and Psychology

Fri Dec 4 10:54:15 PST 2015

Dear SIGCIS members,

Following Andrew's exhortation, I wonder if there are any folks here who
would be interested in putting together a panel on the relationships
broadly defined between the history of computational technologies and those
of the psychological and behavioral sciences.

I've included a preliminary précis below: there are a wide range of topics
that overlap both fields (the development of ELIZA and the Turing test more
broadly; developments in human factors and HCI in the 1980s and 1990s;
contemporary histories of psychological modeling and its incorporation into
digital systems, etc). A wide range of work on different time frames and
geographic locales would be very welcome.

If you have questions or would like to be involved, please don't hesitate
to email me at luke.stark at nyu.edu.

Best,

Luke

Luke Stark

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Media, Culture, and Communication

The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

New York University

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New York, NY 10003

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email: luke.stark at nyu.edu

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Computation and the Behavioral/Psychological Sciences: Intersecting
Histories, Materialities, and Discourses
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting –
Singapore, 22-26 June 2016

The panel highlight the shared history and present of computational and
behavioral science/psychological technologies, discourses, techniques, or
materials. It is not a secret that computation’s early development took
place in an interdisciplinary milieu that included psychologists,
psychiatrists, and other behavioural scientists. Elizabeth Wilson (2010)
has observed that the early pioneers of computing, such as Alan Turing and
Warren McCollough, were engaged with the parallels between electronic
brains and human minds. Lydia Liu (2010) has examined the history of
digital writing through the lens of psychoanalysis, and numerous scholars
have observed that the Marcy Conferences on cybernetics of the 1950s were
explicitly a venue where computer scientists could learn from other
disciplines about the fundamentals of human cognition, feeling, and
motivation; cyberneticists such as Norbert Weiner. More recently, the
introduction of cognitive psychology to human factors engineering in
computer technology by Stuart Card and others in the 1980s founded the
field of human-computer interaction, a discipline that continues to draw
heavily on social and applied psychological research.

The panel seeks to build on and expand from this set of important but
sometimes disconnected dialogues in the history of technology to set a new
agenda for historical research around computation and psychology,
psychiatry, and other behavioural sciences. Papers dealing with any
historical epoch that connect the history of computational technologies
with those of the psy sciences are welcome, and work that highlights the
contributions of figures "from below" to these these histories (including
patients and/or end-users) are encouraged.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Russell <arussell at stevens.edu>
wrote:

> Friends -
>
> Please take note of the extension of the CFP deadline for the SHOT meeting
> in Singapore in June 2016.
>
> Please also note that the program committee has a strong preference for
> panel proposals (as opposed to individual paper proposals) - they even have
> gone to the step of underlining that text on the website.
>
> As you probably know, this list can be a very effective vehicle for
> finding other scholars to form a panel.  And, as always, I am happy to help
> however I can (in my capacity of SIGCIS Chair).
>
> All the best,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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> *Date: *December 2, 2015 at 10:52:07 AM EST
> *To: *andrew.russell at stevens.edu
> *Subject: **Singapore Call for Papers -- Deadline Extended*
>
> Society for the History of Technology
> *2 December 2015*
> Please note that the Call for Papers deadline for the SHOT conference in
> Singapore has been extended, to *31 December 2015*.
>
> For more information, or to submit a proposal, please visit the 2016 Call
> for Papers site at
> http://www.historyoftechnology.org/call_for_papers/index.html
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> The Singapore conference will be held 22-26 June 2016.
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