[ACT-R-users] GOMS Paper

[Frank Ritter]

thank you Rob for pointing out you paper and noting that the issue was out.

we also have an act-r model in that issue, which I follow roughly 
Rob's template in announcing.

Ritter, F. E., Kukreja, U., & St. Amant, R. (2007). Including a model 
of visual processing with a cognitive architecture to model a simple 
teleoperation task. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision 
Making, 1(2), 121-147.

Abstract:
This article describes progress in providing user models with 
sufficient visual information and motor control to perform 
teleoperation with an unmodified, physically realized robot. User 
models that are built by extending cognitive models to interact 
directly with interfaces can provide a theoretical basis for 
predicting user behavior. These models can help in summarizing and 
explaining usability issues in domains for which conventional user 
testing is too time consuming, too demanding of other resources, or 
too dynamic for static models. The user model consists of an ACT-R 
cognitive model and the SegMan image-processing and interpretation 
system. ACT-R supports directing simple rover navigation and 
response-time predictions. SegMan supports interpreting many aspects 
of HCI interfaces and can now interpret simple aspects of video used 
in simple navigation tasks and can generate key presses and mouse 
actions directly. Processing limited amounts of an image as a human 
fovea helped make this system work in real time. A study in robot 
teleoperation provides evidence that the cognitive and 
perceptual-motor model approximates human behavior (based on 
comparison of task time, learning behavior, and mouse actions) in a 
simple navigation task. This work demonstrates how user modeling 
techniques are maturing to the extent that they can be used for 
assessing interfaces for dynamic tasks by predicting performance 
during teleoperation, a common human-robot interaction task.

a prepublication version of the article is at 
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterKSA07.pdf

cheers,

Frank
ps.  Rob, I'd like a copy of your paper.  my print copy has not arrived.