All sessions will be in Adamson Wing (room 136A), which is
on the first floor of Baker Hall.
Friday
7:45 Continental breakfast
8:15 Welcome
8:30 Five talks (20 minutes each)
John Anderson,
A new utility learning mechanism
Perception
Glenn
Gunzelmann, Representing Human Spatial Competence in ACT-R
William Kennedy
& Greg Trafton, Representing and Reasoning about Space
Greg Trafton,
Raj Ratwani & Len Breslow, A Color Perceptual Process Theory: Letting ACT-R
see Colors.
Mike Byrne, An
ACT-R Timing Module based on the Attentional Gate Model
10:10 Break
10:30 Five talks
Communication
and Learning from Instructions
Mike Matessa,
Four levels of Communication, Error, and Recovery in ACT-R
Angela
Brunstein, Learning Algebra by Exploration
Memory
Leendert van Maanen
& Hedderik van Rijn, Memory Structures as User Models
Jong Kim, Frank
Ritter & Richard Koubek, Learning and Forgetting in ACT-R.
Jon Fincham
& Greg Siegle, Modeling mechanisms that differentiate healthy and depressed
individuals: The Paced Auditory Serial Attention Task
12:10 Lunch
1:30-5:30 David Noelle, Leabra tutorial and discussion (with
3:30-4:00 break)
6:30-10:00 Party at the Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts, 6300 Fifth
Avenue, Pittsburgh.
Saturday
7:45 Continental breakfast
8:30 Five talks
Multi-tasking
and Control
Duncan Brumby
& Dario Salvucci, Exploring Human Multitasking Strategies from a Cognitive
Constraints Approach
Dario Salvucci
& Niels Taatgen, An Integrated Approach to Multitasking in ACT-R
Andrea Stocco
& John Anderson, The Neural Correlates of Control States in Algebra Problem
Solving
Erik Altmann
& Greg Trafton, Modeling the Timecourse of Recovery from Task Interruption
Jared Danker,
The Roles of Prefrontal and Posterior Parietal Cortices in Algebra Problem
Solving: A Case of Using Cognitive Modeling to Inform Neuroimaging Data
10:10 Break
10:30 Five talks
Individual
differences
Niels Taatgen,
Ion Juvina, Seth Herd & David Jilk, A Hybrid Model of Attentional Blink
Daniel
Hasumi-Dickison and Niels Taatgen, Individual differences in the Abstract
Decision Making Task.
Ion Juvina,
Niels A. Taatgen, & Daniel Hasumi-Dickison, The Role of Top-Down Control in
Working Memory Performance: Implications for Multi-Tasking
Modeling/Architectural
issues/Tools
Robert St.
Amant, Sean McBride & Frank Ritter, An AI Planning Perspective on
Abstraction in ACT-R Modeling
Christian
Lebiere, Constraints and Complexity of Information Retrieval
12:10 Lunch
1:30 Five talks
John Anderson,
Dan Bothell, Christian Lebiere & Niels Taatgen, the BICA project
Model
validation
Glenn
Gunzelmann & Kevin Gluck, Model Validation and High Performance Computing
Hedderik van
Rijn, Complex model validation by multi-level modeling
Terrence
Stewart & Robert West, ACT-R
versus not-ACT-R: Demonstrating Cross-domain Validity
Simon Li &
Richard Young, ACT-R ALMOST provides a formula for predicting the rate of
post-completion error
3:10 Break
3:40 Future of ACT-R
Sunday
7:45 Continental breakfast
8:30 Five talks
Reasoning/problem
solving
Adrian Banks,
The Influence of Belief on Relational Reasoning: An ACT-R Model
Complex
tasks
Michael
Schoelles, Wayne D. Gray, Vladislav Veksler, Stephane Gamard, and Alex
Grintsvayg, Cognitive Modeling of Web Search
Eric Raufaste,
ATC in ACT-R, a model of Conflict Detection between Planes
Shawn
Nicholson, Michael Byrne & Michael Fotta, Modifying ACT-R for Visual Search
of Complex Displays
Shawn
Nicholson, Michael Fotta, Rober St. Amant & Michael Byrne, SegMan and
HEMA-SI
10:10 Break
10:30 Five talks
Emotion
Frank Ritter,
Sue Kase, Michael Schoelles, Jeanette Bennett & Laura Cousino Klein,
Cognitive Aspects of Serial Subtraction
Robert West,
Terrence Stewart & Bruno Emond, Modeling Emotion in ACT-R
Danilo Fum, Expected values and loss
frequencies: A new view on the choice process in the Iowa Gambling Task
Visual
perception and Search
Troy Kelley,
Visual Search
Mike Byrne, A
Theory of Visual Salience Computation in ACT-R
12:10 End