May 20
The 2025 ACT-R Workshop will take place at Ohio State University as part of the MathPsych/ICCM conference. The date is Tuesday July 29, the day after the main conference (July 26-28) and before the Cognitive Science conference (July 30-August 2) in San Francisco.
As has been the case in recent years, the workshop format will be hybrid including live and virtual presentations. Contact Christian Lebiere if you are interested in giving a presentation or organizing a session.
Jul 22
Here is the Zoom link to attend the 31st Annual ACT-R Workshop remotely.
Jun 26
The schedule for the 31st Annual ACT-R Workshop is now available on the workshop page.
May 03
The thirty-first annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on Tuesday July 23, 2024 as part of the MathPsych/ICCM 2024 Conference at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. The workshop will feature research presentations and panel discussions focusing on the latest ACT-R work and cognitive modeling trends. While in-person attendance is preferred, virtual attendance and recordings of the workshop will be available. Contact Christian Lebiere if interested in presenting or organizing a session.
Dec 13
Videos of the sessions at the 30th Annual ACT-R Workshop are now available on the workshop page.
Jun 30
The schedule for the 30th Annual ACT-R Workshop is now available on the workshop page.
Jun 08
The 2023 ACT-R Workshop will take place on Tuesday July 18 as part of the MathPsych/ICCM/EMPG 2023 Conference in Amsterdam.
Jul 28
Videos of the sessions at the 29th Annual ACT-R Workshop are now available on the workshop page.
Jul 18
The schedule for the 29th Annual ACT-R Workshop is now available on the workshop page.
Jun 03
The 29th Annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on Wednesday July 27, 2022 as part of the In-Person MathPsych/ICCM 2022 conference.
To help us decide whether or not to offer a hybrid attendance option please respond to this short survey.
Oct 14
The video of the 28th Annual ACT-R Workshop is available from the Virtual MathPsych/ICCM 2021 conference site and YouTube.
Jun 24
The schedule for the 28th Annual ACT-R Workshop is now available on the workshop page.
Jun 14
The 28th Annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on Monday July 12, 2021 as part of the Virtual MathPsych/ICCM conference.
Dec 23
Slides from most of the talks at the 2020 ACT-R Workshop are now available on the workshop page.
Jul 20
The schedule for the 28th Annual ACT-R Workshop is now available on the workshop page.
Jun 30
The 27th Annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on Saturday July 25, 2020 as part of the Virtual MathPsych/ICCM conference.
Apr 07
With the MathPsych/ICCM conference going virtual, we would like to get some
community feedback on how best to organize the ACT-R workshop this year.
Please complete the short survey linked below by April 15 to help us with
that if you have not already completed the same survey which was sent to the ACT-R mailing list.
Workshop survey
Feb 10
The 27th Annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on Saturday July 25, 2020 during the MathPsych/ICCM conference in Toronto, Canada.
If you are considering participating and would be interested in giving a presentation or have suggestions for session topics, please contact Christian Lebiere.
Sep 04
Slides from the talks at the 26th Annual ACT-R Workshop, which took place on July 19, 2019 during the MathPsych/ICCM conference in Montreal, Canada, are now available.
Jun 18
The 26th Annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on July 19, 2019 during the MathPsych/ICCM conference in Montreal, Canada.
The schedule of talks is now available.
Apr 24
The 26th Annual ACT-R Workshop will take place on July 19, 2019 during the MathPsych/ICCM conference in Montreal, Canada.
If you are considering participating and would be interested in giving a presentation or organizing a panel session (similar organization to last summer in Madison), please contact Christian Lebiere as soon as possible with a title/topic and a short paragraph abstract.
Jul 16
This year’s ACT-R Workshop will take place on July 21 at ICCM. The format is similar to last year’s Workshop, and here is the schedule of talks.
Jun 25
This year’s ACT-R Workshop will take place on July 21 at ICCM (see schedule). The format will be largely similar to last year’s in London.
Jan 19
2018 ACT-R Summer School and Master Class
Carnegie Mellon University
July 9-13, 2018
The 2018 ACT-R Summer School will take place from July 9-13 at Carnegie Mellon University. It consists of both a Summer School for beginning users and a Master Class for more experienced users.
The Summer School will train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling using the ACT-R tutorial. Each day will consist of a morning theory lecture covering one or two tutorial units, an afternoon discussion
session on the topics of the day, and modeling assignments which participants are expected to complete during the day and evening.
The Master Class is organized in parallel with the Summer School. The Master Class offers the opportunity for ACT-R modelers to work on their own projects with guidance from experienced ACT-R researchers. There is no curriculum for the Master Class, but Master Class students are welcome to attend the Summer School lectures and discussion sessions.
To provide an optimal learning environment, admission to the Summer School and Master Class will be limited. To apply for the Summer School, please email a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose to db30@andrew.cmu.edu. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen a Summer School application. To apply for the Master Class please email a curriculum vitae along with some information about your level of experience with ACT-R and some details on the project you expect to work on
during the Master Class.
Applications are due by April 15th and applicants will be notified of admission by April 30.
Admission to the Summer School and Master Class is free. Housing will be available in the CMU dormitories for approximately $65/day (single) or $50/day (shared).
For more information on the Summer School and Master Class you can email Dan Bothell at db30@andrew.cmu.edu.
Dec 20
Slides from some of the presentations at the 2017 ACT-R Workshop are available on the workshop page.
Jun 28
The preliminary schedule for the 2017 ACT-R Workshop is available on the workshop page.
Jun 12
A post doctoral position is available on a NSF project studying how mathematical knowledge is learned and then used in inventive ways. Candidates with a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, or related fields are encouraged to apply. The project has taken many approaches to this question including behavioral studies, neural imaging, and computational modeling. The involvement of the post doc in this position will depend on their strengths, interests, and what they want to lean. The position has funding for at least 2 years.
Interested candidates should send inquiries and applications (CV, research interests, references) to John Anderson (ja@cmu.edu).
Apr 03
The ACT-R group at Carnegie Mellon University is looking for postdoctoral researchers for a number of positions. Candidates with a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, machine learning or artificial intelligence and an interest in computational cognitive modeling are encouraged to apply.
The first position involves designing neural imaging (EEG) experiments and developing computational (ACT-R) cognitive models of complex skills in dynamic interactive environments to study the effect on performance of workload, strategies and expertise, and inform system design by predicting experimental conditions that would give rise to performance difficulties.
The other positions involve developing computational cognitive models of complex skills in dynamic interactive environments and integrating them with deep learning models and explanation systems. The purpose of the project is to provide insights into the processes and representations of the deep learning models to improve trust and interaction with human experts (Explainable AI).
Interested candidates should send inquiries and applications (CV, research interests, references) to John Anderson and Christian Lebiere.
Feb 17
A one-day ACT-R Workshop will take place at University College London on July 26, 2017, immediately after the ICCM conference in Warwick, UK and before the Cognitive Science Society meeting in London.
The purpose of the workshop is to discuss issues of interest to the ACT-R community, including but not limited to new architectural modifications and developments, modeling and methodology discussions, scaling and efficiency issues, and ideas for applications and expansion.
Inquiries, submissions of presentations, and proposals for session topics can be sent to Christian Lebiere (cl@cmu.edu).
Registration is now available through the University College London
Aug 15
The 2016 ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School is over and slides from many of the presentations are now available on the Workshops page.
May 20
To register for the 2016 ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School please fill out the information on the Registration page and pay with a credit card. You can contact Christian Lebiere (cl@cmu.edu) if you have any questions or comments.
Mar 29
An ACT-R Post Graduate Summer School will take place from August 7 to 9, 2016, after ICCM (August 3 to 6) and before Cognitive Science (August 10 to 14). Since ICCM takes place in State College, PA and the Cognitive Science meeting is in Philadelphia, PA, the PGSS will take place at a location in central Pennsylvania within convenient driving access to both conferences. Our current tentative location is the Cork Factory Hotel in Lancaster, PA.
A tentative program is available on the ACT-R Workshops page. More information about workshop registration and hotel reservations will be available shortly and will be announced on the ACT-R website and mailing list. To help us with planning the event, if you plan to attend please send an email to ACTR.workshops@gmail.com so that we can have an approximate head count.
Jan 14
I am looking for a post-doctoral researcher to work on computational models of dynamic skill acquisition. The central question in this research is how learners bring task relevant knowledge to enable the tuning of a skill while still dealing with the information-processing demands of the task. We are currently pursuing this question in the context of playing a video game but the choice of task is flexible.
We are looking for someone with strong computational modeling skills, preferably with ACT-R experience. The position is funded for at least two years. Besides interacting with other researchers in our lab, the individual could take advantage of the rich intellectual environment that Carnegie Mellon offers.
The person will play a key role in this project with the goal of making a significant advance in the direction of a realistic model of human task learning.
If interested please contact me, ja@cmu.edu
Aug 05
An updated version of the ACT-R software is now available. This new version is named ACT-R 7, but it is really just a renaming of the ACT-R 6.1 software with its most recent updates.
May 15
The Twenty-Second Annual ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 17 to Sunday July 19, 2015 at Carnegie Mellon University. As in past years, the workshop will consist of symposia, tutorial and talk sessions. Friday afternoon will feature a presentation by Ken Forbus.
Admission to the workshop is open to all. The early registration fee (before June 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after June 1) is $125. To register for the workshop, on-campus housing, and parking permit during the workshop fill out the information on the registration site (requires a credit card to pay).
Inquiries can be sent to cl@cmu.edu.
Preliminary 2015 ACT-R Workshop Schedule
Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51
Friday July 17th
9:00am
John Anderson Stages of learning as revealed by ACT-R modeling of fMRI data
Greg Trafton Embodied Gesture and Language
Michael Martin Exploiting Cognitive Context in Autonomous Perception
Christian Lebiere Structural Pattern Matching
10:40am
break
10:50am
Tony Harrison Scaling Up, Scaling Out, and Scaling Understanding
Frank Ritter Comments on documenting models based on documenting an ACT-R compiler
Dario Salvucci ACT-R as Embedded Code
Niels Taatgen Mobile Models
12:30pm
Lunch break
1:30pm
Panel Discussion: Model-Task Interfacing: General, Scalable Protocols
Dan Veksler, Ryan Hope, Tony Harrison, and Don Morrison
3:00pm
break
3:30pm Invited Speaker
Ken Forbus Towards Software Social Organisms: The Companion Architecture
Friday evening
Party at John and Lynne's House
Saturday July 18th
9:00am
Chris Dancy Using MindModeling to explore a parameter space and model
the effects of circadian rhythms on cognition
Michael Collins Comparing Predicted and Observed Trust Dynamics Within and Between Games of Strategic Interaction
Lyle Long Modeling Emotion and Temperament on Cognitive Mobile Robots
Alessandro Oltramari Understanding consumer experience with ACT-R
10:40am
break
10:50am
Rebecca Albrecht Memory Processing and the Visual Impedance Effect
Mike Byrne Comparing vector-based and ACT-R memory models using large-scale datasets:
User-customized hashtag and tag prediction on Twitter and StackOverflow
Jung Aa Moon Modeling Science Inquiry Skills in an Interactive Simulation Task
Matt Walsh Spacing effects across multiple re-learning sessions
12:30pm
Lunch break
1:30pm
Panel Discussion: Scaling Up Cognitive Modeling
Christian Lebiere, John Anderson, Susan Chipman, Dario Salvucci, Niels Taatgen, and Greg Trafton
3:00pm
break
3:30pm Tutorials and Demos
Niels Taatgen PRIMs/ACTransfer tutorial
Frank Tamborello ACT-Concurrently: Concurrency Work-Around for ACT-R
Tony Harrison Model development within jACT-R
Dan Veksler Standard Task-Actor Protocol: Less code to serve more types of models and human participants
Sunday July 20th
9:00am
Panel Discussion: Social-network behavior emerges from individuals: Scaling up cognitive representations,
experimental infrastructure and cognitive technologies
Coty Gonzalez, Christian Lebiere, Ion Juvina, and Alex Yahja
10:30am
break
10:45am
Dan Bothell Recent Updates to ACT-R
Discussion: Future of ACT-R
May 04
Registration for the 22nd Annual ACT-R Workshop is now available.
The early registration fee (before June 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after June 1) is $125. On-campus housing and parking can also be reserved on the registration site but must be completed by June 1 to guarantee availability.
As in past years, the workshop will consist of symposia, tutorial and talk sessions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract in addition to their registration. Suggestions for tutorials and symposia topics are also requested at the same site.
Feb 22
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher. The work in our laboratory involves developing ACT-R models of the learning of complex skills and relating these models to the temporal structure of fMRI, EEG, and MEG data. An appropriate candidate would have relevant background in some aspects of such work and an interest in learning other aspects. Interested candidates should email a CV, or any questions about the position, to ja@cmu.edu.
Jan 30
2015 ACT-R Summer School and Master Class
Carnegie Mellon University
July 13-16, 2015
The 2015 ACT-R Summer School will take place from July 13-16, just before the 22nd annual ACT-R Workshop which will also be held at Carnegie Mellon University. The Summer School will follow a format similar to that used in ACT-R Spring Schools held at the University of Groningen and consist of both a Summer School and a Master Class.
The Summer School will train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling using the ACT-R tutorial. The tutorial consists of eight units, six of which will be covered during the four days of the Summer School. Each day will consist of a morning theory lecture covering one or two tutorial units, an afternoon discussion session on the topics of the day, and modeling assignments which participants are expected to complete during the day and evening.
The Master Class is organized in parallel with the Summer School. The Master Class offers the opportunity for ACT-R modelers to work on their own projects with guidance from experienced ACT-R researchers. There is no curriculum for the Master Class, but Master Class students are welcome to attend the Summer School lectures and discussion sessions.
To provide an optimal learning environment, admission to the Summer School and Master Class will be limited. To apply for the Summer School, please email a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose to db30@andrew.cmu.edu. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen a Summer School application. To apply for the Master Class please email a curriculum vitae along with some information about your level of experience with ACT-R and some details on the project you expect to work on
during the Master Class.
Applications are due by April 13th and applicants will be notified of admission by April 30.
Admission to the Summer School and Master Class is free. In addition, the registration fee for the ACT-R Workshop will be waived for Summer School Students, but not for students of the Master Class. Housing will be available in the CMU dormitories for approximately $60/day (single) or $40/day (shared), and will be available through the end of the workshop.
For more information on the Summer School and Master Class you can email Dan Bothell at db30@andrew.cmu.edu.
Jan 12
The Twenty-Second Annual ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 17 to Sunday July 19, 2015 at Carnegie Mellon University. As in past years, the workshop will consist of symposia, tutorial and talk sessions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract with their registration. Suggestions for the topics of the tutorials and symposia are requested.
Additional information is available on the Workshop page.
Dec 22
ACT-R 6.1 is now the current version of the ACT-R Software. ACT-R 6.0 is still available from the old software page, but will not be updated any further.
Oct 10
The ACT-R 6.1 software is now available as a beta release along with slides describing the significant differences between 6.0 and 6.1.
Sep 17
ICCM 2015 will be held from April 9-11, 2015, at the University of Groningen, in Groningen, the Netherlands. There will be tutorials on the day before the main conference, April 8.
May 12
This year’s ACT-R Workshop will be a one day workshop at CogSci 2014.
Dec 17
Fourth ACT-R Spring School and Master Class 2014
Organizers: Niels Taatgen, Hedderik van Rijn, Jelmer Borst and Stefan Wierda
University of Groningen, Netherlands
http://www.ai.rug.nl/actr-springschool/
April 7-12, 2014
ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra and air traffic control. Following previous ACT-R events in 2010, 2011 and 2013, the University of Groningen will host a spring school and master class.
Spring School
Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school curriculum. The standard curriculum is structured as a set of six units, of which we will cover five in the course of the week. Each unit lasts a day and involves a morning theory lecture, an afternoon discussion session on advanced topics, and an assignment which participants are expected to complete during the day. The last day will be devoted to discussions and presentations by participants. Computing facilities will be provided or attendees can bring their own laptop on which the ACT-R software will be installed.
To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited. Prospective participants should submit an application by January 27, consisting of a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen the application, as well as general programming experience. Applicants will be notified of admission by February 3.
Master Class: Work on your own project
Organized parallel to the spring school, the master class offers the opportunity for modelers to work on their own projects with guidance from experienced ACT-R modelers. Note that signing up for the Master Class assumes some prior ACT-R experience, either through self-study, or having followed an earlier ACT-R spring or summer school.
Participation in the Master Class is open to all who have some prerequisite ACT-R experience through prior Summer or Spring schools. Please also register before January 27th.
PRIM/Actransfer tutorial
For those interested in modeling transfer, a tutorial will be offered about the new Actransfer extension to ACT-R. See http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/actransfer.html for more information.
Registrations fees and housing
Registration fee: Euro 200
Housing will be offered in the university guesthouse for approximately 61 Euro /day (single, double rooms are around Euro 78.50, Breakfast is 10 Euro/person).
Registration
To apply to the 2014 Spring School or Master Class, send an email to Hedderik van Rijn and attach the requested documents before January 27, 2014.
Oct 01
The updated site should provide all the same information as the old one and hopefully be easier to use. There are a couple of changes however. Probably the most important change is the ability for researchers to add their own contact information and publications to the site with the “Sign up” and “Submit Publication” links at the top of the page. Another change is that although the links to the publication pages on the site have been maintained, the links to the specific files attached to the publications have all changed. For example, this link still goes to information about “An Integrated Theory of the Mind” <http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php?id=526>, but the direct link to the paper itself is different on the new site.
If you have any problems with the new site please use the “Contact” link at the top of the page to let us know.
