ACT-R linking to OLE/COM/ActiveX

[Peter Pirolli]

Frank:
Thanks, but we're trying to build on some other work also.  We've figured
out how to do the linkage from Visual Basic (access Internet Exlporer
events and screen/data structures through OLE/COM), where we have developed
an instrumentation package for studying users, and ACL 5.x supposedly has
complete access to OLE, so the functionality is all there, just poorly
documented.

--Pete

At 09:31 AM 2/23/00 -0800, Frank E. Ritter wrote:
>When I think about this I don't know enough about ms products to work with
>them, but it seems like hard work.  So I think about getting a browser that
>I can get the source code for and can then develop in it's language a model
>eye and hand to move around it's screen/data structures.  Tcl/Tk, and Emacs
>Lisp both have, I believe, a web browser written in that language.
>
>We have a paper about developing model eyes and hands for cognitive models
>(actr and soar) that is now in press that I could send you that supports
>this view.
>
>cheers,
>
>Frank
>
>At 8:38 AM -0800 23/2/00, Peter Pirolli wrote:
>>We are trying to link ACT-R to the Internet Explorer in order to develop
>>cognitive models addressing data from users.  To do this, we need to link
>>Franz Allegro Common Lisp 5.x to the OLE/COM object for Internet Explorer.
>>There is some incomplete documentation on the OLE package in ACL 5.x, but
>>we really need some help from someone with experience.  Any help would be
>>very much appreciated and acknowledged.
>>
>>--Pete
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