The 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition
June 4-6, 2004 .."Thinking with Data"

Co-organizers: Marsha Lovett (Carnegie Mellon University) & Priti Shah (University of Michigan)

Update

The 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition "Thinking with Data" is now over,
but if you are interested in learning more about the research presented and
discussed during the meeting, please look for a forthcoming edited volume to
be published by Erlbaum. We thank those who presented at and participated in
this event as well those who prepared for it; all of you contributed to making it
a success!

Overview

In today¹s information-rich environment, people use data in their daily lives in a variety of
ways and for a variety of reasons. School children learn to create graphical representations
of data to help solve problems; scientists collect and analyze data to address research
questions, and consumers evaluate presented and experienced data to make everyday
decisions. Although these different populations and tasks have been studied by different
researchers (even by different fields), the basic, underlying question is the same: How do
people think with data?

The 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition will bring together researchers addressing
this common question from different perspectives in order to foster a new cross-disciplinary
subfield. We are inviting researchers from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,
decision-making science, math education, statistics education, and science education to
participate in the symposium. The symposium will allow these researchers to share their
results and ideas in a way that contributes to both basic and applied issues and that
highlights directions for future work.

Special Events: In addition to the traditional speaker/discussant format, we will have two
special events during the "Thinking with Data" symposium. First, there will be an exhibit of
a project on preschoolers thinking with data that will be on display during the symposium.
Second, we will hold a final panel discussion that will focus on future directions for the
interdisciplinary group of researchers who are interested in how people think with data.

The Carnegie Symposium on Cognition is sponsored by -
The Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
 

The Carnegie Symposium on Cognition is supported by -
The National Science Foundation  NSF
The Office of Naval Research  ONR
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development  NIH
 


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