DILab has strong presence at International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams

August 2010- Ashok Goel, Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge) and Hari Narayanan (Auburn) chaired the Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams in Portland, Oregon. The conference was big success.

Michael Helms presents two papers to the 2010 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference on Design Theory and Methods in Montreal, Canada. The first was entitled “The Effects of Functional Modeling on Understanding Complex Biological Systems,” and the second “Biologically Inspired Design: A Macrocognitive Account.”

Sameer Honwad presents a joint Rutgers-Georgia Tech paper “Connecting the Visible to the Invisible: Helping Middle School Students Understand Complex Ecosystem Processes” to the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon.

Ashok Goel presented two poster papers to the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon: “Taking a Look (Literally!) at the Raven’s Intelligence Test: Two Visual Solution Strategies,” and “Learning Functional and Causal Abstractions of Classroom Aquaria.”

Papers accepted to CogSci 2010

The following two papers have been accepted for publication in Proc. 2010 Cognitive Science Conference:

Ashok K. Goel, Swaroop S. Vattam, Spencer Rugaber, David Joyner, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Rebecca Jordan, Sameer Honwad, Steven Gray, Suparna Sinha. Functional and Causal Abstractions of Complex Systems. To appear in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cogntive Science Society, Portland, August 2010.

Maithilee Kunda, Keith McGreggor & Ashok Goel. Taking a Look (Literally!) at the Raven’s Intelligence Test: Two Visual Solution Strategies. To appear in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cogntive Science Society, Portland, August 2010.

Paper accepted to ICLS

January 30, 2010- The following paper has been accepted for presentation to the 2010 ICLS conference in Chicago, June 2010:

Suparna Sinha, Steven Gray, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Rebecca Jordan, Sameer Honwad, Catherine Eberbach, Spencer Rugaber, Swaroop Vattam & Ashok Goel. Appropriating Conceptual Representations: A Case of Transfer in a Middle School Science Teacher. To appear in Proc. Ninth International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Chicago, June 28-29, 2010.