ACT-R Workshop Schedule

August 2 – August 5, 1997
Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Below is the schedule for the 1997 ACT-R Worskhop.  The talks are half
an hour long, including ten minutes for questions.  The workshop will
take place in Adamson Wing, on the first floor of Baker Hall, from
Saturday August 2nd to Monday August 5th.

An informal set of proceedings will be produced.  Speakers should
contribute copies of slides or related papers of a total length of no
more than 8 pages.  If longer, feel free to reduce and fit 2 or 4 pages
onto a single sheet.  To qualify for inclusion, contributions MUST be
received by Friday AUGUST 1st at 5PM at:

1997 ACT-R Workshop Proceedings
Psychology Department
Attn: Christian Lebiere
Baker Hall 345E                                 Fax: +1 (412) 268-2844
Carnegie Mellon University                      Tel: +1 (412) 268-2815
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890                       Email: cl+@cmu.edu

Web-ready contributions will also be included in virtual proceedings
available on the ACT-R home page.  Just send us the URL.

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Saturday August 2nd
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Early Morning 8:30am
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Tim Chklovsky   Structures for managing flow of control
Eric Scott      Implementing a schema theory in ACT-R
Raluca Vasilescu  An ACT-R model for learning anaphoric metaphors

Break 10:00am
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Late Morning 10:30am
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Kevin Gluck     Learning to learn from a computer-based tutor: An ACT-R
                model as proof-of-concept
Chris Schunn    Psychologist in a box: An ACT-R model that designs and
                interprets experiments
Brian Ehret     ACT-R models of submariner situation assessment
Wayne Gray & Erik Altmann  Dynamic micro-strategies as an explanation of
                cognitive workload

Early Afternoon 2:00pm
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Invited Session - Walter Schneider & Jeff Shrager
Functional Imaging of Cognitive Architectures

Late Afternoon 3:30pm
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Invited Session Continued

Evening
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Party

Sunday August 3nd
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Early Morning 8:30am
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Tony Simon      Computational evidence for the nonnumerical basis of number
                competence
Todd Johnson    Computation and retrieval in alphabet arithmetic
Christian Lebiere  Lessons from cognitive arithmetic

Break 10:00am
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Late Morning 10:30am
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Marsha Lovett   Modeling working memory effects at the individual level
Dieter Wallach  Modeling Complex Problem-Solving
John Anderson & Jonathan Betz  Modeling Categorization in ACT-R
Niels Taatgen   Explicit learning in ACT-R

Early Afternoon 2:00pm
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Niels Taatgen & panel discussion - Explicit vs Implicit Learning

Late Afternoon 3:30pm
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Christian Lebiere - Parameter Optimization

Monday August 4th
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Early Morning 8:30am
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Joyce Tang Boyland  Modeling syntactic priming in ACT-R
Todd Johnson    Multistrategy learning and transfer in Tic-Tac-Toe
Ken Koedinger & Ben MacLaren  Modeling strategy learning in early algebra

Break 10:00am
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Late Morning 10:30am
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Frank Lee       Eye-tracking in the ATC task
Dario Salvucci  Relating ACT-R models and eye movement protocols
Tony Simon      Modeling a functional limit to the subitizing phenomenon
Mike Byrne      ACT-R and PRP

Early Afternoon 2:00pm
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Steve Blessing & panel discussion - ACT-R Education

Late Afternoon 3:30pm
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Mike Byrne - The Perceptual/Motor Interface

Tuesday August 5th
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Early Morning 8:30am
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Mike Matessa    Focused learning in linguistic role assignment
Peter Brusilovsky  ACT-R on the Web
John Anderson, Dan Bothell, Scott Douglass & Christian Lebiere
                ACT-R models of the navigation task

Break 10:00am
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Late Morning 10:30am
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Discussion      The Future of ACT-R