22nd Annual ACT-R Workshop July 17th-19th

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