This workshop is designed to provide the opportunity for individuals with diverse perspectives to engage in rich discussions about a topic of common interest.

Workshop Agenda:

Monday June 30th
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8:00-8:10	Open the Workshop Chris Forsythe & Tim Goldsmith
8:10-9:30	Welcome Address Al Romig, Sandia National Laboratories
8:30-9:30	Keynote Address Cogito Ergo Sum: Building The Symbiotic Cognitive World Of Carbon And Silicon LCDR Dylan Schmorrow, DARPA
9:30-10:00	Breakout Session Introductions Analogues for Cognitive System Interaction – Gabe Radvansky, Notre Dame University Integration with Physiological Input Sources – Don Tucker, Electrical Geodesic Automated Knowledge Capture – Ann Speed, Sandia National Laboratories Psychological Grounding for Computational Systems – Roger Schvaneveldt, Arizona State Univ. Meta-Cognition or What a Cognitive System May/Should Know About Itself – Michael Bernard & Nina Berry, Sandia National Laboratories Products & Applications – John Wagner, Sandia National Laboratories
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-10:45	Situation Models in Comprehension, Memory and Augmented Cognition Gabe Radvansky, Notre Dame University
10:45-11:15	Cognitive Information Processing: Taking a Cue From the Brain Lokendra Shastri, UC Berkeley
11:15-11:45	Designing Attentive Notification Systems: Five HCI Challenges Scott McCrickard, Virginia Tech
11:45-12:15	Engaging Innate Human Cognitive Capabilities to Coordinate Human Interruption: The HAIL System Dan McFarlane, Lockheed Martin
12:15-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:00	The Technological Relevance of Natural Language Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory Michael Covington, University of Georgia
14:00-14:30	Robots and Language Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:30-15:00	Emulating Human Essay Scoring With Machine Learning Methods Darrell Laham, Knowledge Analysis Technologies
15:00-15:15	Break
15:15-15:45	The Arousal Meter Adam Hoover, Clemson University
15:45-16:15	Cognitive Models to Cognitive Systems Chris Forsythe, Sandia National Laboratories
16:15-19:00	Breakout Dinner Session (participants should plan to have dinner together and participants in the demo session should allow time to set up their demonstrations)
19:00-21:00	Demonstration Session Story And Discourse: Using Planning And Natural Language Models to Create Engaging and Interactive Stories In Computer Games, Michael Young, North Carolina State University Cognitive Collective For Insider Threat Detection, Michael Bernard, Sandia National Labs AWACS Real-Time Cognitive Model With Discrepancy Detection, Patrick Xavier, Sandia National Laboratories Vxinsight Analysis for Cognitive Systems Domain, Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Labs Rapid Cognitive Simulations: Enabling Technologies, Douglas Whatley, Breakaway Games Decision-Aiding Algorithm for Interpreting Physiological Data in Hazardous Situations, Adele Doser, Sandia National Laboratories Emulating Human Essay Scoring With Machine Learning Methods, Darrell Laham, Knowledge Analysis Technologies Exploring the Application of Cognitive Principles and Virtual Reality to Reduce the Incidence of Aircraft Maintenance Errors, Alex Chaparro, National Institute for Aviation Research
Tuesday July 1st
8:00-8:15	Opening Remarks Chris Forsythe & Tim Goldsmith
8:15-9:15	Invited Address Autotutor:  An Intelligent Tutoring System With Mixed Initiative Dialog Art Graesser, University of Memphis
9:15-9:45	Story and Discourse: Using Planning and Natural Language Models to Create Engaging and Interactive Stories in Computer Games Michael Young, North Carolina State University
9:45-10:15	Reasoning and Planning with Preferences Using Prioritized Default Theory Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Real-Time Monitoring of Cognitive State Using Dense-Array EEG Don Tucker, Electrical Geodesic
11:00-11:30	Imaging the Brain with Light: New Techniques for Monitoring Cognition Amy Kruse, DARPA
11:30-13:30	Breakout Lunch Session (participants should plan to have lunch together)
13:30-14:00	Untangling Computational Intuitions about Naturalistic Decision Making Walt Warwick, Micro Analysis and Design
14:00-14:30	Modeling Aesthetic Veracity in Humanoid Robots as a Tool for Understanding Social Cognition. David Hanson, University of Texas at Dallas
14:30-15:00	Machine Learning Methods for Parameter Acquisition in a Human Cognitive Model Terran Lane, University of New Mexico
15:00-15:30	Distributed, Competition-Based Feature Extraction: Application to Personal Information Retrieval Travis Bauer, Sandia National Laboratories
15:30-15:45	Break
15:45-16:15	Planning with Sensing Actions and Incomplete Information Using Logic Programming Son Cao Tran, New Mexico State University
16:15-16:45	Exploring the Application of Cognitive Principles and Virtual Reality to Reduce the Incidence of Aircraft Maintenance Errors Alex Chaparro, National Institute for Aviation Research
16:45-TBD	Breakout Dinner Session (participants should plan to have dinner together)
Wednesday July 2nd
8:00-8:15	Opening Remarks
8:15-9:15	Invited Address Finding Meaning in Psychology Roger Schvaneveldt, Arizona State University
9:15-9:45	Retinal Oscillations that Encode Large Contiguous Features: Implications for how the Nervous System Processes Visual Information Garrett Kenyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:45-10:15	Contextual Workload Assessment and Multi-Modal Communication: DaimlerChrysler in Augmented Cognition Wilhelm Kincses, DaimlerChrysler
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Taking Al From the Laboratory to Wal Mart: What Game Players Think They See Douglas Whatley, Breakaway Games
11:00-12:30	Report from Breakout Sessions

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