[ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2007 Announces Four Tutorials (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)]

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Behavior Representation in Modeling in Simulation Conference

BRIMS 2007 Announces Four Tutorials
Monday 26 March 2007
Norfolk, VA

Please go to www.sisostds.org and select BRIMS for more information.
Register online now for BRIMS 2007.
Early registration ends 21 Feb 2007.

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Tutorial # 1 - Monday, March 26, 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Cognitive Crash Dummies: Predictive Human Performance Modeling for
Interactive System Design

Bonnie E. John, Ph.D. and Richard L. Lewis, Ph.D. 

Crash dummies in the auto industry save lives by testing the physical
safety of automobiles before they are brought to market. "Cognitive
crash dummies" save time, money, and potentially even lives, by allowing
computer-based system designers to test their design ideas before
implementing those ideas in products and processes. This tutorial will
give the participants hands-on experience building predictive models of
human performance using a new tool called CogTool, developed at Carnegie
Mellon University, University of Michigan, and NASA Ames Research
Center. 

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Tutorial # 2 - Monday, March 26, 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Examining Subject Variability Using Human Performance Modeling

Anna Fowles-Winkler; Andy Belyavin, Ph.D; and Brad Cain

This tutorial will give participants an overview of the fundamentals of
computer simulation and task network modeling. Building on those
fundamentals, we will then explore techniques for modeling human subject
variability. While the techniques presented can be used with any general
purpose modeling application, this tutorial will use the Integrated
Performance Modelling Environment (IPME).

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Tutorial # 3 - Monday, March 26, 1:00-5:00 PM

User Interface Evaluation and Development using the GRaph Based
Interface Language (GRBIL) Tool

Rick Archer and Michael Matessa, Ph.D.

This tutorial describes and demonstrates the use of a software
application called the GRaph-Based Interface Language (GRBIL) tool that
allows developers of future weapon systems, decision aids, and other
support tools that will be critical to operators of the system to
evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of an interface design by
simply sketching out the interface graphically. From that graphical
description of the interface, GRBIL automatically generates an Adaptive
Control of Thought - Rational (ACT-R) cognitive model of the user
interacting with the system. Using GRBIL, a designer can also define any
number of interface tasks that can be executed many times by the ACT-R
models. Because the GRBIL tool is built on top of a standard interface
toolkit, the resulting interface description can then be used directly
by the implementers as the basis for the actual system rather than being
a throwaway product of a separate evaluation phase. 

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Tutorial # 4 - Monday, March 26, 1:00-5:00 PM

Human Behavior Models and Performance Moderator Functions (PMFs) for
Realistic Leader, Follower, & Faction Sims

Barry G. Silverman, PhD

This tutorial will begin with a discussion of synthetic bots, avatars,
and agents, including their usage to assist, train, and entertain people
in simulators and in videogames. We will jointly examine the state of
the practice in agent simulation and explore the need for greater
realism in behavioral dimensions.
What makes an agent believable? rational? emotionally appealing?
entertaining? Humans are not perfectly rational agents, nor are they
tireless automatons. In order to enhance the realism of synthetic
avatars, one needs to include ways to model a potentially wide array of
performance moderators such as heat/noise, injury, energy/fatigue,
boredom and inattention, peer pressure, stress/panic, emotions,
perceptual and cognitive errors, reputation, trust, relationships, and
the like.

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Laurel Allender & Troy Kelley, BRIMS 2007 Co-Chairs 



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