ACT-R

Publications about Spatial Reasoning and Navigation

Boeddinghaus, J., Ragni, M., Knauff, M., & Nebel, B. (2006). Simulating spatial reasoning using ACT-R. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 62-67). Trieste, Italy. [PDF] [info]

Dimperio, E., Gunzelmann, G., & Harris, J. (2008). An Initial Evaluation of a Cognitive Model of UAV Reconnaissance. In J. Hansberger (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 165-173). Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization. [PDF] [info]

Dye, H. A. (2007). A diagrammatic reasoning: Route planning on maps with ACT-R. In proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. [PDF] [info]

Fum, D. & Del Missier, F. (2000). Climbing the Mazes: A cognitive model of spatial planning. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Veenendaal, The Netherlands: Universal Press. [PDF] [info]

Fu, W. T. (2003). An ACT-R adaptive planner in a simple map-navigation task. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 99-104). Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg. [PDF] [info]

Gluck, K. A., Ball, J. T., Gunzelmann, G., Krusmark, M. A., Lyon, D. R., & Cooke, N. J. (2005). A prospective look at a synthetic teammate for UAV applications. In Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Infotech@Aerospace Conference. Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. [PDF] [info]

Gugerty, L. & Rodes, W. (in press, publication expected fall 2007). A cognitive model of strategies for cardinal direction judgments. Spatial Cognition and Computation. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. (2008). Strategy generalization across orientation tasks: Testing a computational cognitive model. Cognitive Science, 32(5), 835-861. [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2002). Strategic differences in the coordination of different views of space. In W. D. Gray and C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 387-392). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [ACT-R 5.0 model source code] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. & Anderson, J. R. (2004) Spatial orientation using map displays: A model of the influence of target location. In proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 517-522) . August 4-7, Chicago, USA [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., & Anderson, J. R. (2005). Integrating multiple strategies efficiently to solve an orientation task. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 851-856). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. & Anderson, J. R. (2006). Location matters: Why target location impacts performance in orientation tasks. Memory & Cognition, 34(1), 41-59. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G., Anderson, J. R., & Douglass, S. (2004). Orientation Tasks Involving Multiple Views of Space: Strategies and Performance. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4(3), 209-256. [PDF] [ACT-R 5.0 web-based simulation, model source code, and abstract] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. F. (2006). Understanding similarities in performance on different orientation tasks: Strategy adaptation. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 124-129). Trieste, Italy. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. & Lyon, D. R. (2006). Qualitative and quantitative reasoning and instance-based learning in spatial orientation. In proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 303-308 ) . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. & Lyon, D. R (2007). Cognitive architectures: Valid control mechanisms for spatial information processing. In H. Schultheis, T. Barkowsky, B. Kuipers, and B. Hommel (Eds.), Technical Report #SS07-01: AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive/Intelligent Systems (pp. 23-28). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. [PDF] [info]

Gunzelmann, G. & Lyon, D. R. (2007). Mechanisms of human spatial competence. In T. Barkowsky, M. Knauff, G. Ligozat, & D. Montello (Eds.), Spatial Cognition V: Reasoning, Action, Interaction. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence #4387 (pp. 288-307). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. [PDF] [info]

Harrison, A. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2002). ACT-R/S: A Computational and Neurologically Inspired Model of Spatial Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA: August, 2002. [PDF] [info]

Harrison, A. M. & Schunn, C. D. (2003). ACT-R/S: Look Ma, no "cognitive map"!. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 129-134). Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg. [PDF] [info]

Hiatt, L. M., Trafton, J. G., Harrison, A.M., & Schultz, A. C. (2004) A cognitive model for spatial perspective taking. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 354-355). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh. [PDF] [info]

Johnson, T. R., Wang, H. & Zhang J. (2003) An ACT-R Model of Human Object-Location Memory. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pg 1361. [PDF] [info]

Johnson, T. R., Wang, H., Zhang, J., & Wang, Y. (2002). A model of spatio-temporal coding of memory for multidimensional stimuli. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA: August, 2002. [PDF] [info]

Kelley, T. D., Lee, F. J., & Wiley, P. (2000). Developing an ACT-R model of spatial manipulation. ARL-Technical report. (ARL-TR-2179). Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland. [PDF] [info]

Kelley, T. D., Patton, D. & Allender, L. (2001). Error rates in mental manipulation of spatial images. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 92, 985-992. [DOC] [info]

Kennedy, W.G., Bugajska, M.D., Marge, M., Fransen, B.R., Adams, W., Perzanowski, D., Schultz, A.C., and Trafton, J.G. (2007) Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007) (pp 1554-1559). Vancouver, Canada: AAAI Press. [PDF] [info]

Lyon, D. R., Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2004). Emulating a visuospatial memory field using ACT-R. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 368-369). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh. [PDF] [info]

Lyon, D. R., Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2005). Spatial visualization in two vs. three dimensions. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2519). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [info]

Lyon, D. R., Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2006). Key components of spatial visualization capacity. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 381-382). Trieste, Italy. [PDF] [info]

Lyon, D. R., Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2006). Virtual travel does not enhance spatial working memory for landmark-free paths. In R.Sun & N Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2550). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [info]

Lyon, D. R., Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2007). Visualizing egocentric vs. exocentric path descriptions. In The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, Tennessee, USA. [PDF] [info]

Lyon, D. R., Gunzelmann, G., & Gluck, K. A. (2008). A computational model of spatial visualization capacity. Cognitive Psychology, 57, 122-152. [PDF] [info]

Matessa, M. P., Archer, R., & Mui, R. (2007). Dynamic spatial reasoning capability in a graphical interface evaluation tool. In proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. [PDF] [info]

Pavlik, P. I., Jr., & Anderson, J. R. (2002). Mental rotation transfer. Poster presented the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA August 2002. [PDF] [info]

Peebles, D, & Cheng, P. C.-H., (2001) Extending task analytic models of graph-based reasoning: A cognitive model of problem solving with Cartesian graphs in ACT-R/PM. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pp. 169-174. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF] [HTML] [info]

Peebles, D. & Cheng, P. C.-H. (2002). Extending task analytic models of graph-based reasoning: A cognitive model of problem solving with Cartesian graphs in ACT-R/PM. Cognitive Systems Research, 3, 77-86. [PDF] [info]

Raufaste, E. (2006). Air Traffic Control in ACT-R: a Computational Model of Conflict Detection Between Planes. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics (HCI-Aero'06) (pp. 258-259). Seattle, USA. [info]

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. [PDF] [info]

Ritter, F. E., van Rooy, D., St. Amant, R., & Simpson, K. (2006). Providing user models direct access to interfaces: An exploratory study of a simple interface with implications for HRI and HCI. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A, Systems and Humans, 36(3), 592-601. [PDF] [info]

Schunn, C. D. & Harrison, A. M. (2001). ACT-RS: A neuropsychologically inspired module for spatial reasoning. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pp. 267-268. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Document] [Document] [info]

Winkelholz, C. (2006). Analyse, Modellierung und Simulation der visuell-räumlichen Kognition in der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion. Dissertation RWTH Aachen, Shaker-Verlag, Aachen. [HTML] [info]

Winkelholz, C. & Schlick, C. (2005). A Production system for the Serial Recall of Object-Locations in Graphical Layout Structures. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACT-R Workshop. Trieste, Italy. [PDF] [info]

Winkelholz, C. & Schlick, C. (2006). A symbolic theory of visual-spatial cognition. In Proceedings of the IEA2006 - 16th World Congress on Ergonomics. Elsevier, Maastricht, the Netherlands. [HTML] [info]

Winkelholz, C. & Schlick, C. (2006). Modeling human spatial memory within a symbolic architecture of cognition. In T. Barkowsky, C. Freksa, M. Knauff, B. Kried-Bruckner, and B. Nevel (Eds.) Lecture notes in artificial intelligence: Proceedings of Spatial Cognition. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. [PDF] [info]

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