Supporting efficient development of cognitive models at multiple skill levels: exploring recent advances in constraint-based mod

This paper presents X-PRT, a new cognitive modeling tool supporting activities ranging from interface design to basic cognitive research. X-PRT provides a graphical model development environment for the CORE constraint-based cognitive modeling engine [7,13,21]. X-PRT comprises a novel feature set: (a) it supports the automatic generation of predictive models at multiple skill levels from a single taskspecification, (b) it supports a comprehensive set of modeling activities, and (c) it supports compositional reuse of existing cognitive/perceptual/motor skills by transforming high-level, hierarchical task descriptions into detailed performance predictions. Task hierarchies play a central role in X-PRT, serving as the organizing construct for task knowledge, the locus for compositionality, and the cognitive structures over which the learning theory is predicated. Empirical evidence supports the role of task hierarchies in routine skill acquisition. Author Keywords user modeling, tools fo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Irene Tollinger, Richard L. Lewis, Michael McCurdy, Preston Tollinger, Alonso H. Vera, Andrew Howes, Laura Pelton
• Keywords: CHI 2005, Cognitive Modeling Tool, Constraint-based Cognitive Modeling, Human Computer Interaction, Task Hierarchies