Frank E. Ritter

frank.ritterist.psu.edu

http://www.frankritter.com
Penn State University

Publications:

Morita, J., Miwa, K., Maehigashi, A., Terai, H., Kojima, K., and Ritter, F. E. (2020). Cognitive Modeling of Automation Adaptation in a Time Critical Task. Frontiers in Psychology (section Cognitive Science), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02149.

Ritter, F. E., Reifers, A. L., Klein, A. C., & Schoelles, M. J. (2006). Lessons from defining theories of stress. In W. Gray (Ed.) Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Ritter, F. E., Tehranchi, F., & Oury, J. D. (2018). ACT‐R: A cognitive architecture for modeling cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1488.

Kennedy, W.G., Ritter, F. E., Juvina, I., Gratch, J. & Young, R. M. (2012). ICCM Symposium on Cognitive Modeling of Processes “Beyond Rational” In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Berlin, Germany. 12-15 April 2012.

Dancy, C. L., Ritter, F. E., & Berry, K. (2012). Towards adding a physiological substrate to ACT-R. In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, 78-85. Amelia Island, FL.

Paik, J., Kim, J. W., Ritter, F. E., Morgan, J. H., Haynes, S. R., & Cohen, M. A. (2010). Building large learning models with Herbal. In D. D. Salvucci & G. Gunzelmann (Eds.), Proceedings of ICCM Tenth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 187-191). Philadelphia, PA.

Paik, J., Kim, J. W., & Ritter, F. E. (2009). A preliminary ACT-R Compiler in Herbal. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (paper 117), Manchester, United Kingdom.

Kase, S. E., Ritter, F. E., Schoelles, M. (2009). Caffeine's effect on appraisal and mental arithmetic performance: A cognitive modeling approach tells us more. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (paper 252), Manchester, United Kingdom.

Evertsz, R., Busetta, P., Pedrotti, M., Ritter, F. E., & Bittner, J. L. (2008). CoJACK--Achieving principled behaviour variation in a moderated cognitive architecture. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 08-BRIMS-025. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.

Ritter, F. E., Kukreja, U., & St. Amant, R. (2007). Including a model of visual processing with a cognitive architecture to model a simple teleoperation task. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 1(2), 121-147.

St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter, F. E. (2007). Model-based evaluation of expert cell phone menu interaction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 14(1), Article 1 (May 2007), 24 pages.

Ritter, F. E., Schoelles, M., Klein, L. C., & Kase, S. E. (2007). Modeling the range of performance on the serial subtraction task. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Lewis, R. L., Polk, T. A., Laird, J. L., (eds.). 299-304. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis/Psychology Press.

St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., Ritter, F. E. (2007). AI support for building cognitive models. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) (pp. 1663-1666). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Kim, J. W., Ritter, F. E., & Koubek, R. J. (2006). ESEGMAN: A substrate for ACT-R architecture and an Emacs LISP application. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 375-376). Trieste, Italy.

Ritter, F. E., van Rooy, D., St. Amant, R., & Simpson, K. (2006). Providing user models direct access to interfaces: An exploratory study of a simple interface with implications for HRI and HCI. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A, Systems and Humans, 36(3), 592-601.

Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. R., Cohen, M., Howes, A., John, B., Best, B. J., Lebiere, C., Jones, R. M., Crossman, J., Lewis, R. L., St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., Urbas, L., Leuchter, S., & Vera, A. (2006). High-level behavior representation languages revisited. Symposium at Trieste: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 404-407). Trieste, Italy.

Gluck, K. A., Gunzelmann, G., Gratch, J., Hudlicka, E., & Ritter, F. E. (2006, July). Modeling the Impact of Cognitive Moderators on Human Cognition and Performance. Symposium abstract in R.Sun & N Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2658). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ritter, F. E. & Norling, E. (2006) Including Human Variability in a Cognitive Architecture to Improve Team Simulation. In R. Sun (ed.) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation. Cambridge University Press; New York, NY, 417-427.

St. Amant, R., Freed, A. R., & Ritter, F. E. (2005). Specifying ACT-R models of user interaction with a GOMS language. Cognitive Systems Research, 6, 71-88.

St. Amant, R., Riedl, M. O., Ritter, F. E., & Reifers, A. (2005). Image processing in cognitive models with SegMan. In Proceedings of HCI International, 2005. (Invited.) Volume 4 - Theories Models and Processes in HCI. Paper # 1869.

Reifers, A. L., Schenck, I. N., & Ritter, F. E. (2005). Modeling pre-attentive visual search in ACT-R. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ritter, F. E., Reifers, A., Klein, L. C., Quigley, K., & Schoelles, M. (2004). Using cognitive modeling to study behavior moderations: Pre-task appraisal and anxiety. In Proceedings of the Human factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 2121-2125). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factor and Ergonomics Society.

St. Amant, R. & Ritter, F. E. (2004). Automated GOMS-to-ACT-R model generation. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 26-31). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh.

Tor, K., Haynes, S. R., Ritter, F. E., & Cohen, M. A. (2004). Categorical data displays generated from three cognitive architectures illustrate their behavior. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 302-307). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Tor, K. & Ritter, F. E. (2004). Using a genetic algorithm to optimize the fit of cognitive models. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ritter, F. E. (2004). Choosing and getting started with a cognitive architecture to test and use human-machine interfaces. MMI-Interaktiv-Journal's special issue on Modeling and Simulation in Human-Machine Systems, 7. 17-37.

St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter F. E. (2004). Model-based evaluation of cell phone menu interaction. In Proceedings of the CHI'04 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems 343-350. New York, NY: ACM.

Tor, K., Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. R., & Cohen, M. A. (2004). CaDaDis: A tool for displaying the behavior of cognitive models and agents. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Behavior Representaion in Modeling and Simulation. 04-BRIMS-032. 192-200. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida.

Belavkin, R. V. & Ritter, F. E. (2004). OPTIMIST: A new conflict resolution alogorithm for ACT-R. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 40-45). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh.

Shah, K., Rajyaguru, S., St. Amant, R., & Ritter, F. E. (2003). Connecting a cognitive model to dynamic gaming environments: Architectural and image processing issues. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 189-194. Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg.

Belavkin, R. V., & Ritter, F. E. (2003). The use of entropy for analysis and control of cognitive models. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 21-26. Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg.

Ritter, F. E., Avraamides, M., & Councill, I. G. (2002). An approach for accurately modeling the effects of behavior moderators. In Proceedings of the 11th Computer Generated Forces Conference. 29-40, 02-CGF-002. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.

Ritter, F. E., & Young, R. M. (2001). Embodied models as simulated users: Introduction to this special issue on using cognitive models to improve interface design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 55, 1-14.

Ritter, F.E., & Schooler, L. J. (2001). The learning curve. In W. Kintch, N. Smelser, P. Baltes, (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford, UK: Pergamon.

Ritter, F. E., Baxter, G. D., Jones, G., & Young, R. M. (2001). User interface evaluation: How cognitive models can help. In J. Carroll (Ed.), Human-computer interaction in the new millennium. 125-147. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Jones, G., & Ritter, F. E. (2000). Over-estimating cognition time: The benefits of using a task simulation. In Simulating Human Agents, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall 2000 Symposium Series (pp. 67-74). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Ritter, F. E., Baxter, G. D., Jones, G., & Young, R. M. (2000). Supporting cognitive models as users. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(2), 1-33.

Jones, G., Ritter, F. E., & Wood, D. J. (2000). Using a cognitive architecture to examine what develops. Psychological Science, 11(2), 1-8.

Belavkin, R. V., Ritter, F. E., & Elliman, D. G. (1999b). Towards including simple emotions in a cognitive architecture in order to fit children's behaviour better. In Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ritter, F. E., Belavkin, R. V., & Elliman, D. G. (1999a). Affective Computing: The role of emotion in human-computer interaction. In A. Monk, A. Sasse, & A.Crerar (Eds.) Proceedings of the British HCI Group one-day meeting in conjunction with University College London.

Ritter, F. E., & Wallach, D. P. (1998). Models of two-person games in ACT-R and Soar. In Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Cognitive Modelling. 202-203. Thrumpton: Nottingham University Press.

Jones, G., & Ritter, F. E. (1998). Initial explorations of modifying architectures to simulate cognitive and perceptual development. In Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Cognitive Modelling. 44-51. Nottingham: Nottingham University Press.

Jones, G., & Ritter, F. E. (1998). Simulating development by modifying architectures. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. 543-548. Madison, WI: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Jones, G., & Ritter, F. E. (1997). Modelling transitions in childrens' development by starting with adults. In European Conference on Cognitive Science, 62-67. Manchester, UK.