Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University

摘要

The Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory of the School of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University is situated in the town of State College, PA, just about halfway between Pittsburgh (Carnegie-Mellon University) and Philadelphia. The head of laboratory is prof. Frank Ritter, who is interested in cognitive science and in its applications to human-computer interaction. The focus of research in this lab is to understand human cognition by modeling its output and process, creating models that can explain its behavior, testing human-computer interfaces, and serving as colleagues and opponents in simulations. The projects are focused on models that learn, ranging from now to provide them access to interfaces to analyzing the effects of moderators (e.g., caffeine) on cognition. Projects have also been created to simulate children's cognitive development. Therefore, behind this general purpose, the research objectives are: (1) creating models that more accurately reflect human behavior, (2) supporting models to interact with a wider range of interfaces and more accurately (St. Amant et al. 2004), (3) summarizing human behavior in reviews through the gathering of additional data to support model building, (4) developing models that are easy to understand and that are reusable, and (5) building modeling tools. In this paper, the authors show the tools used in ACS Lab in order to summarize the benefits in their application and to point out how they might be reused. Further information is available at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/.