Introduction to SCiP special issue

Abstract

Several of the articles in this issue are based on presentations from the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP). The conference was held in Seattle, Washington, on November 3, 2011, and included talks, posters, and symposia on topics as diverse as semantic processing, intelligent tutors, equipment timing, response time distributions, and brain imaging. The keynote address was given by Susan Dumais on “Understanding InSitu Search Behavior Using LargeScale Log Analysis and Web-Based Experiments.” Joe Magliano also hosted a presidential symposium, “Natural Language Processing Applications in Education: The Computer-Based Analysis of Student Constructed Responses.” A copy of the conference program can be found at www.scip.co/scip-2011/. Brent Kievit-Kylar from Indiana University received the John Castellan Student Paper award for his presentation “Word2Word: A Visualization Tool for High-Dimensional Semantic Data.” All of the SCiP articles in this special issue were treated to the same reviewing and publication standards as the other articles in Behavior Research Methods. My thanks to the authors, reviewers, and consulting editors for quickly moving the papers through the review process. The 42nd Annual Meeting of SCiP will be in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 15, 2012. Additional information can be found at www.scip.co/scip-2012/. The Society for Computers in Psychology is a nonprofit organization of researchers interested in applications of computers in psychology. Its primary purpose is to increase and share knowledge about the use of computers in psychological research. Membership is open to any person who has an academic degree and who is active in scientific applications of computers to psychological research. Membership information can be found at the SCiP website, at www.scip.ws/. The officers of SCiP 2011 included President Joseph Magliano of Northern Illinois University; President Elect Ping Li, Pennsylvania State University; Past President Michael Birnbaum of California State University, Fullerton; and Secretary-Treasurer Michael Jones of Indiana University. The steering committee included Patrick Conley of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Rick Dale of the University of Memphis, Randy Jamieson of the University of Manitoba, Kay Livesay of Linfield College, Otto MacLin of the University of Northern Iowa, Danielle McNamara of the University of Memphis, Douglas J.K. Mewhort of Queen’s University at Kingston, Giuseppe Riva of Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and YanaWeinstein ofWashington University in St. Louis.