Schedule

This schedule includes a summary of weekly in-class activities; pre-class and post-class responsibilities (e.g., forum posts and responses in Weeks 1-10), as well as non-weekly deadlines on paper related deliverables (Weeks 10-15). See Course Organization for more details on weekly and non-weekly activities. Readings subject to change up to three weeks in advance of assignment.

Non-weekly deadlines are in red boldfaced. A summary of non-weekly deadlines is

  • Submit initial (non-binding) paper topic ideas by Tuesday, October 13 at 11:59 PM (see October 13 item below for guidelines)
  • Submit Paper Specification by Monday, October 17 at 11:59 pm
  • Paper updates on Oct 27, Nov 3, and Nov 10 (see those dates for specific instructions)
  • Submit Paper by Friday, November 13 at 11:59 pm Sunday, November 15 at 6:00 pm
  • Submit video presentations by Saturday, November 14 Sunday, November 15 at 11:59 pm
  • Submit Critiques of Assigned Papers by Friday, November 20 at 11:59 pm (critique form)
  • Final Exam TBD

WEEK 1 (First Day of classes is Monday, August 24)

Week’s Topics:

  • Overview
  • Modelling
  • Perceptual expertise

To Do before Tuesday, August 25 class

Class meeting 1 (Tuesday, August 25)

To Do after Tuesday, August 25 class:

Class meeting 2 (Thursday, August 27 ):

To Do after Thursday, August 27 class:

WEEK 2

Week’s Topics:

  • Categorization

To Do before Tuesday, September 1 class:

Class meeting 3 (Tuesday, September 1 ):

To Do after Tuesday, September 1 class:

Class meeting 4 (Thursday, September 3 ):

To Do after Thursday, September 3 class:

WEEK 3 (typical weeks begin)

Week’s Topics:

  • Categorization

To Do before Tuesday, September 8 class:

  • See Week 3 above
  • Submit forum post on Tenebaum, et al by Sunday, September 6 at 11:59 pm (Pw3a)

Class meeting 5 (Tuesday, September 8 ):

To Do after Tuesday, September 8 class:

  • Find, read, and summarize an article on categorization, which relates closely (including perhaps citation) to the Anderson paper from last week  or the Tenenbaum, et al paper this week. Strive to connect your paper to the assigned readings at some level of abstraction, and strive to give a post that addresses both cognition and computation, even if your paper is only focused on computation — submit the (approx 250 word) forum post on this paper by Tuesday, September 8 at 11:59 pm (Pw3b)

Class meeting 6 (Thursday, September 10 ):

To Do after Thursday, September 10 class:

WEEK 4

Week’s Topics:

  • Inference

To Do before Tuesday, September 15 class:

  • See “For week 4” above
  • Submit forum post on Graesser, et al by Sunday, September 13 at 11:59 pm (Pw4a)

Class meeting 7 (Tuesday, September 15 ):

To Do after Tuesday, September 15 class:

  • Find, read, and summarize an article on categorization, which relates closely (including perhaps citation) to the Graesser, et al paper. Strive to connect your paper to the assigned readings at some level of abstraction, and strive to give a post that addresses both cognition and computation, even if your paper is only focused on computation — submit the (approx 250 word) forum post on this paper by Tuesday, September 15 at 11:59 pm (Pw4b)

Class meeting 8 (Thursday, September 17 ):

To Do after Thursday, September 17 class:

WEEK 5

Week’s Topics:

  • Problem Solving

To Do before Tuesday, September 22 class:

  • See “For Week 5” above
  • Submit forum post on Chi and Van Lehn by Sunday, September 20 at 11:59 pm (Pw5a)

Class meeting 9 (Tuesday, September 22 ):

To Do after Tuesday, September 22 class:

  • Find, read, and summarize an article on problem solving, with a clear computation & cognition focus, related to the Chi and Van Lehn paper — submit the (approx 250 word) forum post on this paper by Tuesday, September 22 at 11:59 pm (Pw5b)

Class meeting 10 (Thursday, September 24 ):

To Do After Thursday, September 24 class:

  • Submit responses to forum posts by Friday, September 25 at 11:59 pm (Rw5)
  • For Week 6:

WEEK 6

Week’s Topics:

  • Decision making

To Do before Tuesday, September 29 class:

  • See “For Week 6” above
  • Submit forum post on Tversky and Kahneman by Sunday, September 27 at 11:59 pm (Pw6a)

Class meeting 11 (Tuesday, September 29 ):

  • No class — use time to read all blog posts from Sunday night

To Do after Tuesday, September 29 class:

  • Find, read, and summarize an article on decision making, with a clear computation or  cognition relationships that relates to decision making and the Tversky and Kahneman paper — submit the (approx 250 word) forum post on this paper by Tuesday, September 29 at 11:59 pm (Pw6b)

Class meeting 12 (Thursday, October 1 ):

  • Discuss Tversky and Kahneman and student-discovered papers (Doug’s summary slides)

To Do after Thursday, October 1 class:

  • Submit responses to forum posts by Friday, October 2 at 11:59 pm (Rw6)
  • For Week 7:
    • Lu Hong and Scott E. Page (2004) Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers PNAS November 16, 2004 101 (46) 16385-16389; https://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385

WEEK 7

Week’s Topics:

  • Collective Intelligence

To Do before Tuesday, October 6:

  • See “For Week 7” above
  • Submit forum post on Hong and Page by Sunday, October 4 at 11:59 pm (Pw7a)

Class meeting 13 (Tuesday, October 6 ):

  • Discuss Hong and Page (Summary Slides)

To Do after Tuesday, October 6:

  • Find, read, and summarize an article on collective intelligence, with a clear computation & cognition focus, related to collective intelligence and the Hong and Page paper — submit the (approx 250 word) forum post on this paper by Tuesday, October 6 at 11:59 pm (Pw7b)

Class meeting 14 (Thursday, October 8 ):

  • Discuss student-discovered papers (Summary slides)

To Do after Thursday, October 8 class:

WEEK 8

Week’s Topics:

  • Story Telling

To Do before Tuesday, October 13 class:

  • See “For Week 8” above
  • Submit forum post on Riedl and Bulitko by Sunday, October 11 at 11:59 pm (Pw8a)

Class meeting 15 (Tuesday, October 13 ):

  • Discuss Reidl and Bulitko paper (Summary slides)

To Do after Tuesday, October 13 class:

  • Find, read, and summarize an article on collective intelligence, with a clear computation & cognition focus, related to interactive narrative and the Reidl and Bulitko paper — submit the (approx 250 word) forum post on this paper by Tuesday, October 13 at 11:59 pm (Pw8b)

Class meeting 16 (Thursday, October 15 ):

To Do after Thursday, October 15 class:

  • Submit responses to forum posts (on Reidl and Bulitko) by Friday, October 16 at 11:59 pm (Rw8)
  • For Week 9:

WEEK 9

Week’s Topics:

  • Cognitive architectures

To Do before Tuesday, October 20 class:

  • See “For Week 9” above
  • Submit Paper Specification (including proposed grading rubric) by Monday, October 19 at 11:59 pm

Class meeting 17 (Tuesday, October 20 ):

To Do after Tuesday, October 20 class:

  • submit forum post on Langley et al by Tuesday, October 20 at 11:59 pm (Pw9)

Class meeting 18 (Thursday, October 22 ):

  • No class (but available 1-1 meeting time)

To Do after Thursday, October 22 class:

  • Submit responses to forum posts by Friday, October 23 at 11:59 pm (P24)
  • For Week 10:
    • Work on papers

WEEK 10

Week’s Topics:

  • Papers

To Do before Tuesday, October 27 class:

  • See “For Week 10” above

Class meeting 19 (Tuesday, October 27 ):

To Do after Tuesday, October 27 class:

  • Submit slides from October 27 in-class updates by Tuesday, October 27 at 11:59 pm (see update specs)

Class meeting 20 (Thursday, October 29 ):

  • No Class (but available 1-1 meeting time)

To Do after Thursday, October 29 class:

  • Submit responses to forum posts by Friday, October 30 at 11:59 pm (P27) 

WEEK 11

Week’s Topics:

  • Papers

To Do before Tuesday, November 3 class:

Class meeting 21 (Tuesday, November 3 ):

  • In-class paper updates

To Do after Tuesday, November 3 class:

  • Work on papers

Class meeting 22 (Thursday, November 5):

  • No class (but available 1-1 meeting time)

To Do after Thursday, November 5 class:

  • For Week 12:
    • Work on papers

WEEK 12

Week’s Topics:

To Do before Tuesday, November 10 class:

  • Work on Papers
  • submit final paper update (same format as intermediate update) by Monday, November 9 at 11:59 pm

Class meeting 23 (Tuesday, November 10 ):

  • In-class paper updates

To Do after Tuesday, November 10 class:

  • Work on papers

Class meeting 24 (Thursday, November 12 ):

  • No class — work on papers (available for 1-1 meetings)

To Do after Thursday, November 12 class:

  • Submit Paper to Brightspace by Friday, November 13 at 11:59 pm Sunday, November 15 at 6:00 pm
  • Submit video link, and video permissions to Brightspace by Saturday, November 14 Sunday, November 15 at 11:59 pm
  • Critiques assigned (critique form)

WEEK 13

Week’s Topics:

  • Critiques

To Do before Tuesday, November 17 class:

  • Work on critiques

Class meeting 25 (Tuesday, November 17 ):

To Do after Tuesday, November 19 class:

  • Finish critiques

Class meeting 26 (Thursday, November 19 ):

  • No class — finish critiques — available for 1-1 meetings

To Do after Thursday, November 19 class:

  • Submit Critiques by Friday, November 20 at 11:59 pm

Week 14: November 23 – November 29: Thanksgiving Break

WEEK 15

Week’s Topics:

  • Review, Synthesis, Reflection
  • Course evals

To Do before Tuesday, December 1:

Class meeting 27 (Tuesday, December 1 ):

  • No class

To Do after Tuesday, December 3:

Class meeting 28 (Thursday, December 3 ): Last Day of Class

To Do after Thursday, December 3

Final Exam: Monday December 7