<div dir="ltr">Dear SIGCIS members,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>If you have questions or would like to be involved, please don't hesitate to email me at <a href="mailto:luke.stark@nyu.edu" target="_blank">luke.stark@nyu.edu</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Luke</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Luke Stark</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Ph.D. Candidate</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Department of Media, Culture, and Communication</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35);min-height:15px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"></span><br></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">New York University</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">239 Greene Street, 8th Floor</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">New York, NY 10003</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35);min-height:15px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"></span><br></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(35,35,35)">tel: <a href="tel:%281%29%20646.530.0400" target="_blank"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(18,85,204)">(1) 646.530.0400</span></a></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(35,35,35)">fax: <a href="tel:%281%29%20212.995.4046" target="_blank"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(18,85,204)">(1) 212.995.4046</span></a></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(35,35,35)">email: <a href="mailto:luke.stark@nyu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(18,85,204)">luke.stark@nyu.edu</span></a></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>***</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.571428em;font-family:gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(56,56,56)">Computation and the Behavioral/Psychological Sciences: Intersecting Histories, Materialities, and Discourses </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.571428em;font-family:gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(56,56,56)">Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting – Singapore, 22-26 June 2016 </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.571428em;font-family:gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(56,56,56)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.571428em;font-family:gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(56,56,56)">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. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.571428em;font-family:gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(56,56,56)"><span style="line-height:1.571428em"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="color:rgb(56,56,56);font-family:gotham,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.571428em">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 </span><font color="#383838" face="gotham, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21.99999237060547px">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.</span></font><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arussell@stevens.edu" target="_blank">arussell@stevens.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Please take note of the extension of the CFP deadline for the SHOT meeting in Singapore in June 2016. </div>
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<div>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). </div>
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