[CogSci] Quantitative Preserving the Qualitative: Symposium Invitation

[Wiktor Rorot]

Dear List Members,

I would like to kindly invite you to participate in the following symposium
that will address the issues of the interplay between qualitative and
quantitative research on human experience and behavior:
Quantitative Preserving the Qualitative:
a Teaser for Integrating Methodologies18-19 September 2020
http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/qq2020/

A teaser event for the upcoming CILC5 2021
<http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5> conference.
Theme

Human behavior and experience is fragile under the measurements and richer
than any measures can describe. Our aim is to bring together researchers
working within several approaches, who are aligned by their focus on
preserving the value-realizing and qualitative aspects of human behavior
and experience, and who seek quantitative methods that enable this.
Prominent researchers from both “quali” and “quanti” sides will present
their views on the problem of integration of these complementary approaches
to science.

The theme of the symposium resonates with a long-standing worry about
reducing persons, their deeds and feelings to measurements and relating
these measurements to each other by (most often) linear models. This worry
is equally present within ecological, enactive, cognitive ethnographic and
dynamical systems frameworks, yet the dialogue among them and the exchange
of research experience on the methodological level seems still rather
limited. Each approach develops predominantly its own valuable ways of
investigations, responding to the specific needs of its domain. Therefore
the main goal of this event is to establish a common ground among
researchers from these fields as an introduction to the next year’s
stationary conference.
Symposium Format

The symposium will consist of short 20 min talks from each speaker and a
panel discussion. The event will be held online with the possibility to
interact with the speakers via chat. The conference will take place over
two days at varying hours to fit in as many time zones as possible
(unfortunately with varying convenience):


   - Friday, 18th of September, 2pm-6pm (UTC +0)
   - Saturday, 19th of September, 6am-10am (UTC +0)

*Invited Speakers*

   - *Hanne de Jaegher*, University of the Basque Country,
   - *Mark Bickhard*, Lehigh University
   - *Vasu Reddy*, University of Portsmouth
   - *Li Wei*, University College London
   - *Bert Hodges*, University of Connecticut
   - *Sarah Bro Trasmundi*, University of Southern Denmark
   - *Michael Richardson*, Macquarie University
   - *John Sutton, Rachel Kallen, Sara Kim Hjortborg*, Macquarie University

Here you will find the *full program, with times in your time-zone and
abstracts*:
http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/qq2020/qq2020_abstracts.pdf

*Registration*

The participation in the Symposium is free of charge. To participate *please
register before 13th of September*
http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/qq2020/#registration_form

Best wishes
-- 
Wiktor Rorot
Human Interactivity and Language Lab
University of Warsaw
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