Research Roadmap Plan B

  • Conduct a series of interviews with key researchers to establish what they see as the key challenges facing them in their work and to identify any recent breakthroughs. These interviews will be used as the basis of a catalogue of pressing research issues.
  • Organize a series of immersion days on selected topics. These will take the form of ‘conversations’ between two leaders in the field. These two people will have complementary positions on the topic in questions. The goal of the event will be to debate the issues underpinning the topic and try to tease out what it is we should be doing to make deepen the scientific foundations of the area and extend our current capabilities.
  • Conduct a survey of all members of euCognition, seeking answers to three questions.
    1. What do we learn about human cognition from your work?
    2. What new tools, capabilities, gadgets do you hope to develop in the next 5, 10, 20 years?
    3. Why can’t you build them now?
    These answers should be framed in a way that allows them to be understood by an educated non-specialist (e.g. a reader of New Scientist or Scientific American).