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