[ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor

[Fabio Gutiyama]

Thank you for your answer, it was extremely helpful.

Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common
> Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and
> keyboard actions.  They will be sent to whatever application has the
> current focus.  So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can
> have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see"
> them.
>

That's interesting...
But I noticed that ACT-R sends the mouse and keyboard actions to its
experiment window, independently if an external application has the focus...
(I'm using ACT-R 5)...
Could you tell me how can I define the outs to reach external applications
or where I can find information about this possibility?

Thank you.
Fábio.


On 7/12/06, Dan Bothell <db30 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> --On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:37 PM -0300 Fabio Gutiyama
> <fgutiyama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings, ACT-R users,
> >
> > I'm new in this group and I am starting to use ACT-R on a research about
> > human error in Brazil (Escola Politécnica, São Paulo University - USP).
> > Some aspect I'd like to know is about the perception and motor modules.
> > Is there any implementation that open possibility to ACT-R interact not
> > only with the listener or the experiment window but with the entire
> > enviroment of the operational system, seeing what is presented in other
> > programs and generatig keyboards' in/out(s) to windows or any program,
> > for example?
> >
>
> From the model's perspective the world is represented by what's called
> a device.  The device provides all of the ins and outs for the current
> perceptual and motor modules of ACT-R.  You can find some general
> information on the device for ACT-R 6 in the framework-API.doc document
> in the ACT-R 6 docs directory and more detailed information at:
>
> <http://chil.rice.edu/projects/RPM/docs/index.html>
>
> Note however that the web site describes the ACT-R 5 code and may
> not always match with ACT-R 6 (work is currently ongoing to update
> the documentation for ACT-R 6).
>
> So, your question comes down to basically whether or not there is
> a device that supports the type of access you desire, and basically
> the answer is no.  The devices included with ACT-R don't do that, but
> there are a couple of possibilities.
>
> First, it is possible to add new devices.  So, it's not impossible
> to have that type of interaction, but one would have to do the
> work necessary to create the appropriate device for ACT-R.
>
> Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common
> Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and
> keyboard actions.  They will be sent to whatever application has the
> current focus.  So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can
> have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see"
> them.
>
> As for seeing, there was a project called SegMan being developed
> by Robert St. Amant which was looking to provide a general image
> processing system that would allow for visual information to come
> from "any" window, but I don't know too many details or the current
> status of that project at this time.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Dan
>
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