JCEDM Cognition in Context

HFES's new Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making invites submissions for the Cognition in Context track.

Researchers whose work could be considered cognitive field research now have a continuing opportunity to publish in a peer-reviewed outlet. Papers in the Cognition in Context track will appear in every issue of the new journal. The track will highlight empirical studies and conceptual analyses that grapple with the hard-to-define, difficult-to-study, and sometimes unique realities that confront humans as they attempt to conduct cognitive work in complex environments. This includes studies of domain-embedded knowledge and reasoning using methods of cognitive task analyses, ethnomethodology, historiography, cognitive work analyses, and knowledge elicitation.

This track will afford researchers in diverse disciplines a venue for publishing studies in which the research involves considerations of ecological representativeness or salience. At the same time, research can have broader implications for theory (epistemological utility and generality). The track will also give researchers in many disciplines a place to publish methodological investigations-conceptual and empirical evaluations of methods for the study of cognitive work in context-and a place to publish theoretical analyses, including notions of systems, emergence, macrocognition, and complexity.

Studies of cognitive work in context can focus on situation awareness, problem finding, re-planning, uncertainty management, sensemaking, expertise, adaptation, coordination, metacognition, and other macrocognitive functions. Research conducted for a variety of purposes is appropriate, not limited to the development of human-centered, user-centered, or decision-centered technologies and training methods.

The Cognition in Context track seeks reports on domains including but not limited to aviation, air traffic control, process control, transportation, manufacturing systems, maintenance and diagnostic systems, system design, medical and emergency services, teleoperations and supervisory control, command and control, and military systems.

For more information about the Cognition in Context track of JCEDM, contact track editor Robert R. Hoffman at rhoffman@ihmc.us. All manuscripts should be submitted via the JCEDM ScholarOne Manuscripts Web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcedm.