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Cognitive Modeling for Automated Human Performance Evaluation at Scale

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This chapter presents a brief overview of theories and concepts that ar some well-established and widely used cognitive architectures, such as ACT-R (Anderson et al (2004) Psychol Rev 111(4):1036–1060; Anderson (2007) How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? Oxford series on cognitive models and architectures. Oxford University Press, Oxford) and SOAR (Laird (2012) Soar cognitive architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge). These are computational attempts to model cognition for general and complete tasks rather than for single, small tasks. This chapter also reviews the most known and used cognitive models, KLM and GOMS, which are computational models used for simulations of human performance and behavior (Ritter et al (2000) ACM Trans Comput-Hum Interact 7(2):141–173. https://doi.org/10.1145/353485.353486). We will show how some cognitive architectures that originated within artificial intelligence (AI) have been developed to cover aspects of cognitive science, and vice versa. The relevance of the cognitive approach to HCI can be seen in the successful use of cognitive models in the HCI community to evaluate designs, assist users’ interactions with computers, and substitute users in simulations (Ritter et al (2000) ACM Trans Comput-Hum Interact 7(2):141–173. https://doi.org/10.1145/353485.353486).

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Yuan, H., Li, S., Rusconi, P. (2020). Cognitive Approaches to Human Computer Interaction. In: Cognitive Modeling for Automated Human Performance Evaluation at Scale . Human–Computer Interaction Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45704-4_2

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