[ACT-R-users] YouTube Video

[Wayne Gray]

Greetings.

With John Senders' encouragement and permission, I have posted his  
mid-1960's video of him driving a test car down I-495 outside of  
Boston while the visor of the helmet he is wearing goes up and down,  
occluding his vision.

You can access the video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOguslSPpqo

There are links to the right of the video that will take you back to  
my lab where you can download

Senders, J. W., Kristofferson, A. B., Levison, W. H., Dietrich, C. W.,  
& Ward, J. L. (1967). The attentional demand of automobile driving.  
Highway Research Record(195), 15-33.

And view stills of the relay boxes in the back sit that control the  
visor.

This is great stuff. I encourage you all to view, rate, and comment on  
the video. (Can we make this the next YouTube sensation??)

As the paper notes, the empirical part of the study (driving on I-495)  
was merely done to collect data needed to validate the modeling side  
of the study. Although these were not ACT-R models, I think it is  
noteworthy to document the extent to which modelers will go to collect  
empirical data to test their models. (Dario -- don't get any ideas  
about doing this on I-95 in Philly! Times have changed.)

Wayne

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If you just have formalisms or a model you are doing "operations  
research" or" AI", if you just have data and a good study you are  
doing "experimental psychology", and if you just have ideas you are  
doing "philosophy" -- it takes all three to do cognitive science.

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