June 16-June 30, 1996
Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University

This is the preliminary schedule for the presession, summer school,
tutorial and workshop.  Note that the exact schedule for the workshop
talks has not yet been finalized.

The summer school lectures will take place in Baker Hall 346E and the
assignments in Baker Hall 346D.  The tutorial lectures will take place
in Baker Hall 340A and the assignments in Baker Hall 346D/E.  The
workshop will take place in Baker Hall 136A, aka Adamson Wing.

Baker Hall is located at the southern end of campus, on the border of
Frew Street and Schenley Park.  BH 346D/E and BH 340A are located on the
third floor of Baker Hall, in the psychology department.  Adamson Wing
is located on the first floor of Baker Hall.

Presession

Sunday, June 16: Unit 0 morning 9AM: How ACT-R production rules work (Gluck & Fincham) afternoon 2PM: midway discussion afternoon & evening: work

Summer School

Monday, June 17: Unit 1 morning 9AM: Introduction to ACT-R (Anderson) Production rule writing (Fincham) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Tuesday, June 18: Unit 2 morning 9AM: Unit 1 Debriefing Authoring production rules (Anderson) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Wednesday, June 19: Unit 3 morning 9AM: Unit 2 Debriefing Conflict resolution (Lovett) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Thursday, June 20: Unit 4 morning 9AM: Unit 3 Debriefing Activation and latency (Anderson) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Friday, June 21: Unit 5 morning 9AM: Unit 4 Debriefing Partial matching and accuracy (Lebiere) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Saturday, June 22: Unit 6 morning 9AM: Unit 5 Debriefing Activation learning (Anderson) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: group dinner and get together Sunday, June 23: Unit 7 morning: work afternoon 1PM: Unit 6 Debriefing Conflict resolution learning (Lovett) evening: work Monday, June 24: Summer School Wrap up morning 9AM: midway discussion afternoon 2PM: Grand Debriefing evening: free

Tutorial

Tuesday, June 25: Unit 8 morning 9AM: Analogy (Lebiere) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Wednesday, June 26: Unit 9 morning 9AM: Unit 8 Debriefing Visual interface (Matessa) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Thursday, June 27: List Learning Paradigm morning 9AM: Debriefing List learning results (Anderson) List learning paradigm (Matessa) afternoon 3PM: midway discussion evening: work Friday, June 28: Tutorial Wrap Up morning 9AM: More midway discussion afternoon 3PM: Grand Debriefing evening: free

Workshop

An informal set of proceedings will be produced. Speakers should contribute copies of slides and/or related papers of a total length of no more than 12 pages. If longer, feel free to reduce and fit 2 or 4 pages onto a single sheet. Saturday, June 29: Workshop Morning 8:00: Continental breakfast Morning 8:30 - 10:30: Session 1 Gary Jones Modelling children's behavior in a blocks puzzle Ken Koedinger & Ben McLaren An ACT-R model of quantitative reasoning Marsha Lovett An ACT-R model of individual differences in working memory Chris Schunn Modeling scientific discovery in ACT-R Morning 10:30: break Morning 11:00 - 1:00: Session 2 Dario Salvucci Simple Physics Problem Solving by Analogy Niels Taatgen Learning task-specific knowledge from examples and general knowledge Alexander van den Bosch Learning abductive inference by analogy Steve Blessing Explorations of the new ACT-R analogy mechanism Afternoon 1:00: Lunch Afternoon 2:00 - 4:30 : Session 3 David Kieras & John Anderson Epic & ACT-R compared Evening 5:30 Party Sunday, June 30: Workshop Morning 8:00: Continental breakfast Morning 8:30 - 10:30: Session 4 Brian Bell The modeling of errors in a sequential cognitive skill Derek Brock Task model tracing Dieter Wallach Implicit and explicit knowledge in the control of complex systems Kevin McGrory An ACT-R model of Tic-Tac-Toe and its isomorph Morning 10:30: break Morning 11:00 - 12:30: Session 5 John Anderson The ACT-R theory of fan effect Werner Tack A simple model of cooperative rationality Mike Matessa An ACT-R model of menu search Afternoon 12:30: Lunch Afternoon 1:30 - 4:00 : Future of ACT-R and Wrap Up