Human and Social Dynamics Work Group

Jennifer Fewell Email: j.fewell@asu.edu Phone: 480-965-6539 Web Page: http://ls.la.asu.edu/biology/faculty/fewell.htm Interests:Dr. Fewell's area of research is the behavioral ecology and evolution of social insects. She is interested in the evolution of task organization in social insects. Her current work focuses on how intrinsic variation in task performance by individual workers affects colony patterns of division of labor. Questions: How do complicated social patterns emerge from simple rules of individual behavior, in insects or in humans?

Kevin A. Gluck Email: kevin.gluck@williams.af.mil Phone: 480-988-6561 x-234 Web Page: https://www.williams.af.mil/html/palmlab.htm Interests: computational cognitive process models, cognitive architecture, human behavior representation, computer-generated forces, model-based instructional agents, and training applications for all of the above Questions: How can we best use what computational cognitive science has to offer to develop applications that are useful in military, educational, and industrial training contexts?What are the critical science and technology gaps that decrease the effectiveness of those applications? What basic research should be pursued to fill those gaps? Biography

Owen D. Jones Professor of Law, Professor of Biology E-mail:owen.jones@asu.edu Phone: (480) 965-1026 Website: http://www.law.asu.edu/jones/ Interests:Human behavioral biology relevant to law.Reducing the incidence of aggression.How people respond to changes in their legal environments, how they processrisk-relevant information, and how they make decisions about behaviors relevantto law. Questions: Can an evolutionary perspective help us explain and predictnew contexts for seemingly "irrational" behavior, including behaviors reflecting inconsistent preferences, hyperbolic discounting of future interests, over-cooperativeness, mistaken assessments of probability, the taste for spiteful behavior, and irrational pricing of property? Biographic Profile

PeterKilleen.  Email: killeen@asu.edu Phone: 965-2555 Web Page: http://psych.la.asu.edu/people/faculty/pkilleen.html Interests: Perception, memory, conditioning, time perception and choice,principly in nonhuman animals. Questions: Where can you get a good cup of coffee; what's the best way to think about behavior; how the local action of individual scientists percolates up into a Science; what's worth studying;how to find time todo profound work, collaborate, and teach. Biography Comments

Mike McBeath.  Email: m.m@asu.edu Phone:  5-8930 Web Page:  http://www.public.asu.edu/~mmcbeath Interests: Perception and Navigation of Space:computational modeling of perceptionand action in space. Navigation and interception strategies in humans, animals,androbots. Multisensory perceptual biases and scene analysis underdynamic, ecologically-validviewing/listening conditions. Questions: It does appear there is a potential consensus among a sub-group of us concerning spatial navigation.  If anyone wants to propose a collaborationin this area I would like to participate. Biography Comments

Tom Taylor Email: tom.taylor@asu.edu Phone: 5-3778 Web Page: http://math.la.asu.edu/~tom/ Interests:Modeling and simulation,   markov chains,  dynamicalsystems, estimation and filtering. Applications to biomimetics: detection, discrimination, hyperacuity, dynamics of computation. Questions: What is intellegence, its manifestations?  How dothese evolve temporally?  How should one best describe these in mathematicalor algorithmic terms?   MetaQuestions:How can I most effectively contribute to answering these questions? How can I most effectively communicate the importance of these questions?  How can my answer to these questions better humanity?    Biography Comments