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SOCIETY FOR COMPUTERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Editorial
This issue of Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers comprises articles basedon presentations at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP).
The November 2001 MeetingThe one-day conference was held in Orlando, FL on November 14, 2001. The program chair
for the 2001 meeting was Paula Goolkasian. The program included more than 50 presentations in adozen paper and poster sessions. Presentation topics covered a wide range of computer-based researchand teaching techniques, including World-Wide Web applications for both teaching and research.
Sarah Ransdell delivered the PresidentialAddress, “Teaching Psychologyas a Laboratory Sci-ence in the Age of the Internet.” Raymond S. Nickerson presented an invited historical overview,“From Magnetic Cores to Pentium Chips: A Personal Retrospective on Computers in Psychology.”Dominic Massaro was invited to share recent advances in research on oral communication, “Devel-oping and Evaluating Conversational Agents.”
The John Castellan Student Paper Award for 2001 recognizes the work of Matthew J. Pastizzo,reported here in his paper with Robert F. Erbacher and Laurie B. Feldman, “Multi-DimensionalDataVisualization.”
A complete listing of titles, authors, and abstracts for papers presented at the SCiP conferenceis available at the SCiP Web page: http://www.lafayette.edu/allanr/scip.html.
The SCiP articles that are included in this issue were contributed to BRMIC and reviewed bythe journal’s consultingeditors,members of the program committee of the SCiP conference, and ad-hocreviewers who have expertise in each paper’s area. My thanks to all the reviewers, who contributedto the quality of the papers in this issue.
The November 2002 MeetingThe 32nd Annual Meetingof the Society for Computers in Psychologywill be held at the Hyatt
Hotel, Kansas City, MO, on November 21, 2002. Robert Proctor is the program chair for the 2002meeting, and Roman Taraban is assistant program chair. The Call for Papers may be found athttp://ww2.lafayette.edu/~allanr//scip.html. Presentations geared for all levels are appropriate, in-cluding introductory tutorials, new ways of teaching or collecting data, and technical informationfor researchers who write their own programs. Individuals interested in suggesting topics for ses-sions or submittingpapers for the 2002 meeting are urged to contact the program chair, Robert Proc-tor, with questions or comments:
Robert ProctorDepartment of Psychological SciencesPurdue UniversityW. Lafayette, IN 47907-1364E-mail: [email protected]
About the Society for Computers in PsychologyMembership in SCiP and participation at the meeting are open to all who are interested in the
use of computers in psychology. Information about joining SCiP or in participating in its meetings
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may be obtained from the Secretary-Treasurer, ChristopherWolfe, Western CollegeProgram, MiamiUniversity, Oxford, OH 45056. (phone 513 529-5670; e-mail [email protected]). Students areinvited to become members and participate in the Society and its meetings.
A mailing list for questions and discussions related to the use of computers in psychology isSCiP-L. To add your name to the SCiP discussion list, send a message to [email protected] body of the message should read SUBSCRIBE SCiP-L Your Name.
The president of the Society for 2002–2003 is David Washburn, Georgia State University; theoutgoing president is Sarah Ransdell, Florida Atlantic University; and the president-elect is CurtBurgess, University of California, Riverside. Christopher Wolfe, Miami University of Ohio, contin-ues as secretary-treasurer. The other members of the steering committee are Michael Birnbaum, Cal-ifornia State University, Fullerton;Chris Cosby, California State University, Fullerton;Paula Goolka-sian, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Cyndi McDaniel, University of Northern Kentucky;John Krantz, Hanover College; Kenneth McGraw, University of Mississippi;Larry Rosenblum, Uni-versity of California, Riverside; Robert Proctor, Purdue University; and John Vokey, University ofLethbridge. Robert Allan, Lafayette College, is webmaster.
Jonathan VaughanHamilton College