Jim Davies, 2011: ANNUAL REPORT ON PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

Complete in triplicate: one copy for personal file, one for departmental file, one for Dean (via chairman/director).

1.	Honours received

2.	Publications
a)	Books published or edited (indicate place, publisher and pagination):
b)	Articles published in edited books or referred journals:
a)	Articles published in refereed conference proceeding:

Davies, J. & Gagné, J. (2010). Estimating quantitative magnitudes using semantic
similarity. Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence workshop on Visual Representations and Reasoning (AAAI-10-VRR) 14--19.

Davies, J. & Yaner, P. W. (2010). Analogical mapping through visual abstraction. The Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2010), 1553—1558. 

Bell, J. & Davies, J. (2010). Pixel graphs are better at representing large quantities of information than pie graphs. Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams-2010), 288-291. 

Smith, C., Van Bentham, K., Nuttall, J., Musca, J., MacDougall, K., Miller, X., Li, J., Fitzpatrick, J., Di Noia, N., Cybulskie, A., & Davies, J. (2010). Modeling English
spatial preposition detectors. Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams-2010), 328—330. 

b)	Encyclopedia articles published (please indicate pagination):
c)	Catalogues, Textbooks, Technical Reports and Creative Writing published:
d)	Articles in non-refereed journals and miscellaneous scholarly publications:
e)	Review articles and book reviews published (give author, book, journal and pagination):
f)	Journalistic Writing:
g)	Work in press or accepted for publication (indicate with *items reported in this category last year):

Schoenherr, J., Thomson, R. & Davies, J. (accepted April, 2011). What makes an explanation believable?: Mechanistic and anthropomorphic explanations of natural phenomena. The Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI-11).

Davies, J., Atance, C. & Martin Ordas, G. (accepted February 2011). A framework and open questions on imagination in adults and children. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, Special issue on mental imagery in children. 

* Goel, A. K. & Davies, J. (accepted December, 2009). Artificial Intelligence. In S. B. Kaufman and R. Sternberg (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (3rd Edition). 

* Gagné, J. & Davies, J. (accepted August, 2009) Visuo: A model of visuospatial instantiation of quantitative magnitudes. Knowledge Engineering Review. Special Issue on Visual Reasoning. 

1.	Editorial Responsibilities	

2.	Papers Presented
a)	At Learned Societies or before other Academic Bodies outside of 
Carleton:
b)	Non-Academic Talks:
c)	Sessions chaired, papers commented on, round-table presentations at professional conferences:
d)	Invited talks (other than lectures in your own courses) given at Carleton:

Davies, J. (2011). Using Student Projects to Generate Educational Resources on the Web.Teaching and Learning in a Networked Era (conference). Ottawa, Ontario, April 6.

1.	Other forms of scholarly productivity such as exhibits arranged, plays produced, tests devised, recitals, poetry readings, etc.

2.	Research Grants Received (note source, topic, sum and add * if this grant was reported last year)

Davies, J. (2010). Quanty Game. Carleton University Foundry Program. $5,000 CAD.

3.	Service to the Profession
a)	Offices held in local, national or international academic bodies:
b)	Positions held on selection committees (OGS, SSHRCC, etc.) or performance adjudication boards:
c)	Manuscript appraisals for journals or publishers:

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Program committee member for Diagrams 2010
ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2011

d)	Assessment of research proposal for SSHRCC, etc.:
e)	Assessment of university programs or of candidates for promotion at other universities:
f)	External examiner for MA or Ph.D. theses at other universities:
g)	Other forms of service to the profession:

Editor of Cognitive Science Summaries website:
URL: http://www.jimdavies.org/summaries/

1.	Consultancies and Contract Research (note any unpublished reports resulting from this work)

2.	Academic Responsibilities
a)	Graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars taught (note contact hours and whether team-taught):

[CGSC3001] Honours Seminar in Cognitive Science I
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week (co-taught)
Fall 2010

[CGSC5102] Computational Methods
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Fall 2010

[CGSC 4001/5001] Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Science 
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Winter 2011

[CGSC 2002]
Theories and Methods in Cognitive Science
Carleton University
Instructor. 3 hours in class per week
Winter 2011

b)	Directed Studies courses taught (note number of each course and number of students in that course):
c)	Theses supervised (note program, department, name of student, title of thesis (if completed), and whether work is at planning, research/writing, dormant or completion stage):
d)	Thesis boards participated on in a capacity other than supervisor:  
e)	Innovative teaching methods employed:

Assigned students to summarize papers for the Cognitive Science Summaries Website.
Assigned students to create online flash cards for future students to use.

1.	Administrative Responsibilities and Committee Assignments
a)	Departmental:

Faculty calls to high school students
2008-2011

Annual March Break Program, Pitch to high school students, speaker
2007, 2008

Cognitive Science Distinguished Lecture Series, coordinator, 
Fall 2006 – Present

a)	Faculty:
b)	University:

1.	Any other information you wish to bring to the attention of the Promotions Committee and the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences.

FASS
01/05/2001