Cognitive modelling at the UCL Interaction Centre

The UCL Interaction Centre is an interdisciplinary research group with roots in the Psychology and Computer Science Departments of UCL. Research focuses on the cognitive, affective, social and physical aspects of human-computer interaction, including such topics as: sensemaking, information work and digital libraries; design practice; collaborative learning; experiences of novel interaction; and affect, emotion, and subjective experience. In this presentation we will focus on the work of a subset of the researchers, who use and/or develop cognitive models to understand human-computer interaction. This work roughly focuses around three themes: human errors, visual search and strategic adaptation in multitask settings.

[1]  Anna L. Cox,et al.  Can parafoveal processing explain skipping behaviour in interactive menu search , 2010 .

[2]  Dario D. Salvucci,et al.  Threaded cognition: an integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. , 2008, Psychological review.

[3]  Ann Blandford,et al.  Recognising Erroneous and Exploratory Interactions , 2007, INTERACT.

[4]  Jonathan Back,et al.  Locked-out: investigating the effectiveness of system lockouts to reduce errors in routine tasks , 2010, CHI Extended Abstracts.

[5]  Richard L. Lewis,et al.  Rational adaptation under task and processing constraints: implications for testing theories of cognition and action. , 2009, Psychological review.

[6]  Ann Blandford,et al.  The effect of interruptions on postcompletion and other procedural errors: an account based on the activation-based goal memory model. , 2008, Journal of experimental psychology. Applied.

[7]  Andrew Howes,et al.  Strategies for Guiding Interactive Search: An Empirical Investigation Into the Consequences of Label Relevance for Assessment and Selection , 2008, Hum. Comput. Interact..

[8]  Andrew Howes,et al.  Focus on driving: how cognitive constraints shape the adaptation of strategy when dialing while driving , 2009, CHI.

[9]  Ann Blandford,et al.  Different Cognitive Mechanisms Account for Different Types of Procedural Steps , 2009 .

[10]  Christian P. Janssen,et al.  How a Modeler's Conception of Rewards Influences a Model's Behavior: Investigating ACT-R 6's Utility Learning Mechanism , 2008 .

[11]  J. Gregory Trafton,et al.  Memory for goals: an activation-based model , 2002, Cogn. Sci..

[12]  Duncan P. Brumby,et al.  Dual-Task Strategy Adaptation: Do we only Interleave at Chunk Boundaries? , 2009 .

[13]  Anna L. Cox,et al.  The Role of Mouse Movements in Interactive Search , 2006 .