Challenges for a Computational Cognitive Psychology for the New Digital Ecosystem

Advances in computational cognitive psychology have played an important role in understanding and engineering human–information interaction systems. These computational models include several addressing the cognition involved in the human sensemaking process, user models that capture the knowledge that humans acquire from interaction, and how people judge the credibility of online Twitter users who influence decision-making. The models presented in this chapter build on earlier information foraging models in which it is important to model individual-level knowledge and experience because these clearly influence human–information interaction processes. This chapter concludes with a discussion of challenges to computational cognitive models as digital information interaction becomes increasingly pervasive and complex.