22 April 08
[all papers also available upon request to the author, Frank.Ritter@ist.psu.edu, via pdf files or hardcopy. NOTE: this list is not complete. If you want a paper added, please let me know.]
ACS Lab Tech reports have been moved to acs.ist.psu.edu/misc/reports
General talk on HCI (11/98 updated 5/01)
ACT-R Appraisal/caffeine overlay, code, displays
Eye and hand in Tcl/TK for Soar 7 and 8 (6/02)
Ritter, F. E., & Nerb, J., O'Shea, T., & Lehtinen, E. (Eds.), (2007). In order to learn: How the sequence of topics influence learning. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Ritter, F. E. [panel member], (2007). Committee Human-System Design Support for Changing Technology. A new approach to system design using risk in human-system integration. Richard W. Pew and Anne S. Mavor, editors. National Research Council, National Academy Press. Washington DC. [Executive summary]
Ritter, F. E., Shadbolt, N. R., Elliman, D., Young, R., Gobet, F., & Baxter, G. D. (2003). Techniques for modeling human and organizational behaviour in synthetic environments: A supplementary review. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH: Human Systems Information Analysis Center. [Abstract] [whole file] [Announcement and parts] [local copy of file]
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., & Young, R. M. (Eds.). (1998). Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Cognitive Modelling. Thrumpton (UK): Nottingham University Press. ISBN 1-897676-67-0
Ritter, F. E., & Bibby, P. A. (in press). Modeling how, when, and what learning happens in a diagrammatic reasoning task. Cognitive Science.
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. Associated web site.
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.
Kukreja, U., Stevenson, W. E., & Ritter, F. E. (2006). RUI -- Recording User Input from interfaces under Windows and Mac OS X. Behavior Research Methods. 38(4). 656–659. [Associated web site]
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., Freed, A. R., & Haskett, O. (2005). User information needs: The case of university department web sites. ACM interactions. 12(5). 19-27.
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(1) 71-88.
Ritter, F. E., & Wood, A. B. (2005). Dismal: A spreadsheet for sequential data analysis and HCI experimentation. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers. 37(1), 71-81.
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. [in English, abstract in German]
Cheyne, T., & Ritter, F. E. (2001). Targetting respondents on the Internet successfully and responsibly. Communications of the ACM, 44(4), 94-98.
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), 141-173.
Jones, G., Ritter, F. E., & Wood, D. J. (2000). Using a cognitive architecture to examine what develops. Psychological Science, 11(2), 93-100.
Kuk, G., Arnold, M., & Ritter, F. E. (1999). Using event history analysis to model the impact of workload on an air traffic tactical controller's operations [DRAFT]. Ergonomics, 42(9), 1133-1148.
Nerb, J., Ritter, F. E., & Krems, J. (1999). Knowledge level learning and the power law: A Soar model of skill acquisition in scheduling. Kognitionswissenschaft [Journal of the German Cognitive Science Society] Special issue on cognitive modelling and cognitive architectures, D. Wallach & H. A. Simon (eds.). 20-29.
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.Delaney, P. F., Reder, L. M., Staszewski, J. J., & Ritter, F. E. (1998). The strategy specific nature of improvement: The power law applies by strategy within task. Psychological Science. 9(1). 1-8.
Bass, E.J, Baxter, G.D., & Ritter, F.E. (1995). Creating models to control simulations: A generic approach. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 93, 18-25.
Ritter, F. E., & Major, N. P. (1995). Useful mechanisms for developing simulations for cognitive models. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 91(Spring), 7-18.
Reder, L. M., & Ritter, F. E. (1992). What determines initial feeling of knowing? Familiarity with question terms, not the answer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18(3), 435-451. (This paper was also reviewed in the Dutch paper NRC Handelsbad, similar to the Wall Street Journal, in August 1992.)
Kase, S., Ritter, F. E., & Scholles, M. (in press). From modeler-free individual data fitting to 3-D parametric prediction landscapes: A research expedition. In Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Evertsz, R., Ritter, F. E., Busetta, P., & Pedrotti, M. (in press). Realistic behaviour variation in a BDI-based cognitive architecture. In Proceedings of the SimTecT ’08 Conference.
Evertsz, R., Busetta, P., Pedrotti, M., Ritter, F. E., & Bittner, J. L. (2008). CoJACK—Achieving principled behaviour variation in a moderated cognitive architecture. Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 08-BRIMS-025. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
Ritter, F. E. (2008). dTank: A lightweight synthetic environment for teaching and theoretical research, In Hansberger, J. T., & Best, B. J. (eds), Human Behavioral Synthetic Research Environments (HB-SRE) Symposium. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, 08-BRIMS-034. U. of Central Florida: Orlando, FL.
Klein, L.C., Bennett, J.M., Whetzel, C.A., & Ritter, F.E. (2008). Daily caffeine use impacts neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to laboratory stress in healthy men. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70(3), A-58.
Carroll, J. M., Haynes, S.R., Ritter, F. E., Rosson, M.B., Zhang, X. L. (2008). The d-school in the i-school: HCI and design research. iConference 2008.
Bernard, M. L., Forsythe, J. C., Allender, L., Cohn, J., Radvansky, G., Ritter, F. E. (2007). The next generation of cognitive modeling tools: Opportunities, challenges and basic needs. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 799-801. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Cohen, M. A., Ritter, F. E., & Haynes, S. R. (2007). Using reflective learning to master opponent strategy in a competative environment. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Lewis, R. L., Polk, T. A., Laird, J. E., (eds.). 157-162. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis/Psychology Press.
Kim, J. W., Koubek, R. J., & Ritter, F. E. (2007). Investigation of procedural skills degradation from different modalities. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Lewis, R. L., Polk, T. A., Laird, J. L., (eds.). 255-260. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis/Psychology Press.
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.
Ritter, F. E., Kase, S. E., Bhandarkar, D., Lewis, B., & Cohen, M. A. (2007). dTank updated: Steps towards exploring moderator-influenced behavior in a light-weight synthetic environment. Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 51-60. 07-BRIMS-014. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
Evertsz, R., Ritter, F. E., Russell, S., & Shepherdson, D. (2007). Modeling rules of engagement in computer-generated forces. Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 123-134. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida. 07-BRIMS-021.
St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., Ritter, F. E. (2007). AI support for building cognitive models. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06). 1663-1666. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Gluck, K., Gunzelmann, G., Gratch, J., Hudlicka, E. Ritter, F. E. (2006). Modeling the impact of cognitive moderators on human cognition and performance. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 2658. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. R., Cohen, M. Howes, A., John, B., Best, B., 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. In Proceedings of ICCM - 2006- Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 404-407. Trieste, Italy: Edizioni Goliardiche.
Kim, J., Ritter, F. E., Koubek, R. J. (2006). ESEGMAN: A substrate for ACT-R architecture and an Emacs Lisp application. In Proceedings of ICCM - 2006- Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 375. Trieste, Italy: Edizioni Goliardiche.
Bennett, J. M., Whetzel, C. A., Ritter, F. E., Reifers, A., & Klein, L. C. (2006). Effects of caffeine and stress on cortisol and serial subtraction performance in young healthy men. Psychosomatic Medicine 68(1). A-62. [abstract of poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, CO.]
Klein, L. C., Whetzel, C. A., Bennett, J. M., Ritter, F. E., & Granger, D. A. (2006). Effects of caffeine and stress on salivary alpha-amylase in young men: A salivary biomarker of sympathetic activity. Psychosomatic Medicine 68(1). A-4. [abstract of talk presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, CO.] http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/misc/AbstractsForJournal062-9final.pdf
Whetzel, C. A., Ritter, F. E., & Klein, L. C. (2006). DHEA-S and cortisol responses to stress and caffeine in healthy young men: Is DHEA-S a reliable marker for stress? Psychosomatic Medicine 68(1). A-77. [abstract of poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, CO.]
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.
Morgan, G. P., Ritter, F. E., Stevenson, W. E., Schenck, I. N., & Cohen, M. A. (2005). dTank: An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents. In L. Allender & T. Kelley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 133-140. 05-BRIMS-043. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
Cohen, M. A., Ritter, F. E., & Haynes, S. R. (2005). Herbal: A high-level language and development environment for developing cognitive models in Soar. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 177-182. 05-BRIMS-044. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
Morgan, G. P., Haynes, S. R., Ritter, F. E., & Cohen, M. A. (2005). Increasing efficiency of the development of user models. In Proceedings of the 2005 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium. Ellen J. Bass, (ed). IEEE and Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia: Charlottesville, VA.
Ritter, F. E., Reifers, A., Klein, L. C., Quigley, K., & Schoelles, M. (2004). Using cognitive modeling to study behavior moderators: Pre-task appraisal and anxiety. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 2121-2125. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
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. 308-313. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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. 302-307. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Belavkin, R. V., & Ritter, F. E. (2004). OPTIMIST: A new conflict resolution algorithm for ACT-R. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 40-45. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
St. Amant, R., & Ritter, F. E., (2004). Automated GOMS to ACT-R model generation. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Best applied paper prize]
Norling, E., & Ritter, F. E., (2004).
A parameter set to support psychologically
plausible variability in agent-based human modelling. In The
Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi
Agent Systems (AAMAS04). 758-765. New York, NY: ACM.
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the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal
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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 Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 04-BRIMS-032. 192-200. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
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.
Shah, K., Rajyaguru, S., St. Amant, R., & Ritter, F. E. (2003). Image processing for cognitive modeling in dynamic gaming environments. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 189-194. Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg.
Councill, I. G., Haynes, S. R., & Ritter, F. E. (2003). Explaining Soar: Analysis of existing tools and user information requirements. ter, F. E. (2003). Explaining Soar: Analysis of existing tools and user information requirements. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 63-68. 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.
Avraamides, M., & Ritter, F. E. (2002). Using multidisciplinary expert evaluations to test and improve cognitive model interfaces. In Proceedings of the 11th Computer Generated Forces Conference. 553-562, 02-CGF-100. Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
Ritter, F. E., Van Rooy, D., & St. Amant, R. (2002). A user modeling design tool for comparing interfaces. In C. Kolski & J. Vanderdonckt (Eds.), Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces III, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI'2002. 111-118. Kluwer Academics Publisher, Dordrecht.
Norling, E., & Ritter, F. E. (2001). Embodying the JACK agent architecture. In M. Stumptner, D. Corbett, & M. Brooks (Eds.), AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the 14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 368-377. Berlin: Springer.
Ritter, F. E., & Bibby, P. (2001). Modeling how and when learning happens in a simple fault-finding task. In Proceedings of ICCM - 2001 - Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 187-192. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ritter, F. E., & Lonsdale, P. (2000). Extending Tcl/Tk to provide a functional eye and hand for the Soar cognitive modelling architecture. To have appeared in Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Australasian Cognitive Science Conference [lost by publisher!].
Lonsdale, P. R., & Ritter, F. E. (2000). Soar/Tcl-PM: Extending the Soar architecture to include a widely applicable virtual eye and hand. In N. Taatgen & J. Aasman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. 202-209. Veenendaal (NL): Universal Press.
Gobet, F., & Ritter, F. E. (2000). Individual Data Analysis and Unified Theories of Cognition: A methodological proposal. In N. Taatgen & J. Aasman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. 150-157. Veenendaal (NL): Universal Press.
Byrne, M., Chong, R., Freed, M., Ritter, F. E., & Gray, W. (1999). Symposium on Integrated models of perception, cognition, and action. In Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 1. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Golightly, D., Hone, K. S., & Ritter, F. E. (1999). Speech interaction can support problem solving. In M. A. Sasse & C. Johnson (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction -- Interact '99. 149-155. IOS Press.
Baxter, G. D., & Ritter, F. E. (1999). Towards a classification of state misinterpretation. In D. Harris (Ed.), The 2nd International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. 35-42. Oxford: Ashgate.
Jones, G., & Ritter, F. E. (1998b). Simulating development by modifying architectures. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. 543-548. Madison, WI: Lawrence Earlbaum.
Jones, G., & Ritter, F. E. (1998a). 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. superceeded by Jones, Ritter, & Wood 2000
Baxter, G. D., & Ritter, F. E. (1997). Model-computer interaction: Implementing the action-perception loop for cognitive models. In D. Harris (Ed.), The 1st International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. vol. 2 215-223. October 1996, Stratford-upon-Avon: Ashgate. Superceeded by Ritter, Baxter, Jones, & Young, 2000
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. superceeded by Jones, Ritter, & Wood, 2000
Ritter, F. E., & Baxter, G. D. (1996). Able, III: Learning in a more visibly principled way. In U. Schmid, J. Krems, & F. Wysotzki (Eds.), Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Cognitive Modeling. 22-30. Berlin: Forschungsberichte des Fachbereichs Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin. Code vailable on the web in acs.ist.psu.edu/misc/nottingham/ccc/pub- soar/able/ Paper partially superceeded by Ritter, Jones, & Baxter 1998, but some low level details are elided.
Nichols, S. & Ritter, F.E. (1995) Theoretically motivated tool for automatically generating command aliases. In Proceedings of CHI '95. 393-400.
Ong, R., & Ritter, F. E. (1995). Mechanisms for routinely tying cognitive models to interactive simulations. In HCI International '95. Osaka, Japan: July 1995. superceeded by Ritter, Baxter, Jones, & Young, 2000
Ritter, F. E., Lochun, S., Bibby, P. A., & Marshall, S. (1994). Dismal: A free spreadsheet for sequential data analysis and HCI experimentation. In A. Trapp & N. Hammond (Eds.), Computers in Psychology '94, 62-63. York (UK): CTI Centre for Psychology, U. of York. Reprinted in Psychology Software News, 5(2) (November 1994), Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Psychology, U. of York. pp. 57-58. Superceeded by Ritter & Wood, 2002.
Ritter, F. E. (1993) Using a cognitive architecture to add to protocol theory. Abstract included in the Proceedings of the III European Congress of Psychology, Tampare, Finland, July 1993. Also presented as colloquia at Queen Mary and Westfield College (U. of London), and the U. of Regensberg, Germany, July, 1993.
Davis, L. W., & Ritter, F. (1987). Schedule optimization with probabilistic search. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications. IEEE Computer Society. 231-236.
Ritter, F. E., & Nerb, J. (2007). Call to order: How sequence effects in humans and artificial systems illuminate each other. In F. E. Ritter, J. Nerb, T. O'Shea, & E. Lehtinen (Eds.), In order to learn: How the sequences of topics affect learning. 3-15. Oxford University Press.
Ritter, F. E., Nerb, J., & Lehtinen, E. (2007). Getting things in order: Collecting and analysing data on learning. In F. E. Ritter, J. Nerb, T. O'Shea, & E. Lehtinen (Eds.), In order to learn: How the sequence of topics influence learning. 81-92. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
Nerb, J., Ritter, F. E., & Langley, P. (2007). Rules of order: Process models of human learning. In F. E. Ritter, J. Nerb, T. O'Shea, & E. Lehtinen (Eds.), In order to learn: How the sequences of topics affect learning. 57-69. Oxford University Press.
Ritter, F. E. (2007). The rise of cognitive architectures. [Editor's note for the first book in the Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures.] Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems (IMoCS), Wayne Gray (ed.). v-vi. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Ritter, F. E., Reifers, A. L., Klein, L. C., & Schoelles, M. (2007). Lessons from defining theories of stress. Integrated models of cognitive systems (IMoCS), Wayne Gray (ed.). 254-262. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Ritter, F. E., & Norling, E. (2006). Including human variability in a cognitive architecture to improve team simulation. In Cognition and multi-agent interaction: From cognitive modeling to social simulation (pp. 417-427). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Kase, S. E, & Ritter, F. E. (accepted April 2004). The gender factor in computer anxiety: Perspectives in IT. Encylopedia of Information Science and Technology.
Jones, G. & Ritter, F. E. (2003). Production systems and rule-based inference. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. 741-747. London: Macmillan.
Ritter, F. E. (2003). Soar. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillan. [password protected ala the Soar archive.]
Ritter, F. E., & Schooler, L. J. (2001). The learning curve. In International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. 8602-8605. Amsterdam: Pergamon. www.iesbs.com/
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 millenium. 125-147. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Also see Ritter, Baxter, Jones, and Young, 2000.
Ritter, F. E., Jones, R. M., & Baxter, G. D. (1998). Reusable models and graphical interfaces: Realising the potential of a unified theory of cognition. In U. Schmid, J. Krems, & F. Wysotzki (Eds.), Mind modeling - A cognitive science approach to reasoning, learning and discovery. 83-109. Lengerich (Germany): Pabst Scientific Publishing.
Feurzeig, W., & Ritter, F. (1988). Understanding reflective problem solving. Psotka, J., Massey, L. D., & Mutter, S. A. (Eds.), Intelligent tutoring systems: Lessons learned. Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Stevenson, W., & Ritter, F. (2006). Review of "BBN's earliest days: founding a culture of engineering creativity Beranek L. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27(2): 6-14, 2005." ACM Computing Reviews, May 26, 2006.
Inguscio, L., & Ritter, F. E. (May 2005). Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory at the Pennsylvannia State University (Laboratory Notes). Cognitive Processing: International Quarterly of Cognitive Science. 6(2). www.springerlink.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=485700d70f624980ba144604e30c8217&referrer=parent&backto=issue,1,6;journal,1,6;linkingpublicationresults,1:110966,1
Ritter, F. E., Morgan, G. P., Stevenson, W. E., & Cohen, M. A. (2005). A tutorial on Herbal: A high-level language and development environment based on Protégé for developing cognitive models in Soar. In L. Allender & T. Kelley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, . Orlando, FL: U. of Central Florida.
Daughtry, J. M., & Ritter, F. E. (2005). Understanding the behaviour of agents and cognitive models: CaDaDis 2.1. AI and the Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly. 119. 4
Baxter, G. D., & Ritter, F. E. (2002). A review of "A multidisciplinary approach to human-maching systems development: Cognitive Engineering in the Aviation Domain" edited by Nadine B. Sarter and Rene Amalberti. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 47(4), 362-364. (invited) [DRAFT]
Ritter, F. E., & Councill, I. G. (2002). A review of the 22nd Soar Workshop. AI Magazine. 23(3[Fall]), 107-109.
Mudgett, D. R., Freed, A. R., & Ritter, F. E. (2002). Web-based resources for teaching discrete mathematics to students of information sciences and technology. IEEE Learning Technology, 4(3). 9-10. lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/july2002/index.html#3
Ritter, F. E. (2001). Review of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. Cognitive Systems Research, 1(4), 251-252. [pdf version]
Ritter, F. E., Baxter, G. D., Jones, G., & Young, R. M. (2000). Summary of 'Supporting cognitive models as users'. research alerts [sic] in interactions [sic], VII.6, 16-17. See Ritter, Baxter, Jones, & Young, 2000 for details.
Ritter, F. E. (2000). Review of the Third International Cognitive Modelling Conference. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly. 104. p. 8 (shorter version of the Ritter 2001 review above)
Young, R. M., & Ritter, F. E. (1999). Report on the Second European Conference on Cognitive Modelling. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 101, 10-11.
Ritter, F. E., & Young, R. M. (1999). Report on the AISB'99 Workshop on "Issues in Teaching Cognitive Science to Undergraduates". AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 102, 7-8.
Ritter, F. (1997). WWW presentation of overheads & exercises. CTI Psychology Software News. 7(2). 46.
Ritter, F. E., Jones, G., & Young, R. M. (1997). Report on Tutorial: Introduction to the Soar cognitive architecture. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 98, 50. (reprint of Ritter, Jones & Young, 1996).
Ritter, F. E., Jones, G., & Young, R. M. (1996). Report on Tutorial 1: Introduction to the Soar cognitive architecture. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 95, 18.
Arnold, M., Kuk, G., & Ritter, F. E. (1995). MacSHAPA review. CTI Psychology Software News, 6(1). 18-20.
Ritter, F. E., & Young, R. M. (1994). Practical introduction to the Soar cognitive architecture: Tutorial report. AI and Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly, 88, 62. (see 1997 review)
Ritter, F. E. (1987). Symbolics product review. Technology and Learning, 1(2). Invited product review mispublished as a letter to the editor.
Ritter, F. E., Freed, A. R., & Haskett, O. L. (2002). Discovering user information needs: The case of university department websites (Tech. Report No. 2002-3). Applied Cognitive Science Lab, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State. acs.ist.psu.edu/acs-lab/reports/ritterFH02.pdf
Ritter, F. E., & Wood, A. B. (2002). Dismal: A spreadsheet for sequential data analysis and HCI experimentation (Tech. Report No. 2002-1). Applied Cognitive Science Lab, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State. http://acs.ist.psu.edu/acs-lab/reports/ritterW02.pdf
Ritter, F. E., & Avraamides, M. (2001). Improving interfaces for CGFs through multidisciplinary evaluations: A new, broad approach (Tech. Report No. 2001-1). Applied Cognitive Science Lab, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State.
Ritter, F. E., & Avraamides, M. N. (2000). Steps towards including behavioural moderators in human performance models in synthetic environments (Tech. Report No. 2000-1). Applied Cognitive Science Lab, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State.
Ritter, F. E., Shadbolt, N. R., Elliman, D., Young, R., Gobet, F., & Baxter, G. D. (1999). Techniques for modelling human performance in synthetic environments: A supplementary review (Tech. Report No. 62). ESRC CREDIT, Dept. of Psychology, U. of Nottingham.
Ritter, F. E., & Bibby, P. (1997). Modelling learning as it happens in a diagramatic reasoning task (Tech. Report No. 45). ESRC CREDIT, Dept. of Psychology, U. of Nottingham.
Baxter, G. D., & Ritter, F. E. (1996). Designing abstract visual perceptual and motor action capabilities for use by cognitive models (Tech. Report No. 36). ESRC CREDIT, Psychology, U. of Nottingham.
Frank E. Ritter & Gordon D. Baxter (1996). Programming by Tenet Systems. The Nottingham Interaction Architecture as Realised in SLGMS. WP/R3BAIA005/017
Lehman, J., Newell, P., Altmann, E., Ritter, F., McGinnis, T. (1994). The Soar introduction video (11 min.). The Soar Group, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E. (ed.) (1993). Proceedings of the EuroSoar 7 Workshop, U. of Nottingham, November 1993.
Ritter, F. E. (1992). Unified Theories of Cognition: One and one-quarter years later (Tech. Rep.) CMU-CS-92-007.2. School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E. (1992). TBPA: A methodology and software environment for testing process models' sequential predictions with protocols. Doctoral dissertation, Carnegie-Mellon University. Also available as School of Computer Science tech report CMU-CS-93-101.
Feurzeig, W., Massey, D., Downes-Martin, S., & Ritter, F. (1985). TRIO to INCOFT Adaptation Study (Tech. Rep.) 6194. BBN Laboratories.
Ritter, F. E. (1991). How the Soar interface uses Garnet. Video (2 min.) shown at the Garnet user interface development environment special interest subgroup meeting at the 1991 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference (CHI'91).
Ritter, F. E. (April, 1991). The Developmental Soar Interface.
Video (27 min.) presented to the CMU Soar Research Group.
Part1 as 64M mpg file Part2
as 97M mpg file
[the quality from the 10 year old tape is not good, and the
conversion process is not great, but at small screen sizes, you can
get a feel for what the software was like.]
Ritter, F. (1987). OREO: Orienting electrical circuits for qualitative reasoning, (Tech. Rep.) #6560. BBN Laboratories.
Kalus, T., & Ritter, F. E. (2003). The Soar Tutorial, Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Bamberg, Germany, 9 April 2003. In F. Detje, D. Doerner, & H. Schaub (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 318. Bamberg, Germany: Universitats-Verlag Bamberg.
Ritter, F. E. & Shiskowski, N. (2002). The ACT-R FAQ, acs.ist.psu.edu/act-r-faq
Baxter, G. D., & Ritter, F. E. (1995/2001). The Soar FAQ, acs.ist.psu.edu/soar-faq. Updated quarterly and stored at the U. of Nottingham Mirror Soar site mirror of US sites. Awarded a "Key Resource Award" viewable at <http://www.links2go.com/award/Soar>.
Ritter, F. E. & Young, R. M. (1994, last revision 3/98). Psychological Soar Tutorial. Computer programs and overheads. Developed with Gary Jones. Currently available at acs.ist.psu.edu/nottingham/pst/pst-ftp.html.
Ritter, F. E., & Ong, R. (Sept, 1994). The simple-menu package. Release 1.2. Available from The Ohio State University elisp archives on archive.cis.ohio-state.edu as file /pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/interfaces/simple-menu.el.Z (last checked 1/97), and other archives.
Ritter, F. E. (1992). Multiple forms-mode. Available from The Ohio State University elisp archives on archive.cis.ohio-state.edu as file pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/modes/multi-forms-mode.1.4.tar.Z.
Ritter, F. E. (1991). TAQL-mode Manual. The Soar Project, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E., Hucka, M., & McGinnis, T. F. (1992). Soar-mode Manual. (Tech. Rep.) CMU-CS-92-205. School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Bates, D., Kademan, E., & Ritter, F. E. (Fall 1990, last revised with my help Fall 1991). S-mode for GNU Emacs. Available from the Statlib software archive (S is a statistics package, Statlib is statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu). Now part of the ESS package.
Ritter, F. E. (September, 1990). "Batmail -- Reading mail in an editor", "Notes on software available and used in the CMU Psychology department", and "Some notes on learning more about GNU-Emacs". Manuals and talks presented at the CMU Psychology Department Immigration Course.
Panagos, J., Feurzeig, W., & Ritter, F. (1987). TRIO System Documentation (Tech. Rep.) 6547. BBN Laboratories.
Ritter, F. E., & Young, R. M. (1997). Invited lectures and practicals on Soar, German Autumn School in Cognitive Science, 18-22 September, 1997. (See Psychological Soar Tutorial for materials.)
Kim, J., & Ritter, F. E. (2007). Automatically recording keystrokes in public clusters with RUI: Issues and sample answers. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1787. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Girouard, A., Smith, N. W., &, Ritter, F. E. (2006). Lessons from decompiling an embodied cognitive model. Cognitio 2006 Workshop.
Reifers, A. L., Schenck, I. N., & Ritter, F. E. (2005). Modeling pre-attentive visual search in ACT-R. To appear in Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. 2545. Mawah, NJ: Earlbaum.
Inguscio, L., Marucci, F. S., Ritter, F. E. (2004). Il sistema di produzione ACT-R/PM: Un modello simulativo dei processi percettivo-morori. Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. www.unipa.it/frapax/documenti/in_o_06_inguscio.pdf [abstract, in Italian] local copy
Haynes, S. R., Councill, I. G., Ritter, F. E. (2004). Responsibility-driven explanation engineering for cognitive models. In AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems. 46-52. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Cohen, M. A., Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. (2004). An introduction to Herbal. In Proceedings of the XXIV Workshop. 75-77. The Soar Group, University of Michigan.
Sun, S., Councill, I., Fan, X., Ritter, F. E., Yen, J. (2004). Comparing teamwork modeling in an empirical approach. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. 388-389. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ritter, F. E., Avraamides, M. N., Councill, I., van Rooy, D., Quigley, K. S., Klein, L. C., McNeese, M. D., Stine, M. M., & Rodrigues, I. M. (2002). Pre-task appraisal and caffeine: An architectural overlay for ACT-R. In Air Force Workshop on ACT-R Models of Human-System Interaction, Mesa, AZ, January 2002.
Ritter, F. E., & Avraamides, M. (2001). Testing the Situation Awareness Panel. In Proceedings of the 21th Soar Workshop. 35-39.
Ritter, F. E. (2001). Preliminary Example Applications of Cognitive Models to Telephone Design. Talk presented at the Navy Research Lab.
Ritter, F. E. (2000). Cognitive modeling. DARPA Human Robotics Interface Workshop. 29-30 November, Arlington, VA.
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. 67-74. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Belavkin, R., & Ritter, F. E. (2000). Adding a theory of motivation to ACT-R, slides included in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACT-R Workshop, p. 133-139. Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E. (2000). A role for cognitive architectures: Guiding user interface design, contribution to the Applications of Cognitive Architectures panel, slides included in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACT-R Workshop, p. 85-91. Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E. (2000). An example HCI task, interfaces, model, and verification for Single subjects design. ACT-R Summer School presentation.
Ritter, F. E. (2000). The Soar FAQ and DERA Report. In Proceedings of the 20th Soar Workshop. 127.
Ritter, F. E. (2000). SOAR/Tcl-PM: Including a widely applicable eye and hand in Soar. In Proceedings of the 20th Soar Workshop.
Ritter, F. E., & Bibby, P. A. (2000). Modeling how and when learning happens in a diagrammatic reasoning task. Talk presented at the Fifth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society. And at the U. of Melbourne, Feb 2000.
Ritter, F. E., & Lonsdale, P. R. (2000) Extending Tcl/Tk to provide a functional eye and hand for the Soar cognitive architecture. Talk presented at the Fifth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society.
Belavkin, R. V., Ritter, F. E., & Elliman, D. G. (1999). 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. 784. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ritter, F. E., Belavkin, R. V., & Elliman, D. G. (1999). Towards including simple emotions in a cognitive architecture in order to fit behaviour better. Poster at the BCS's "Workshop on Affective Computing: The role of emotion in Human Computer Interaction."
Ritter, F. E., & Young, R. M. (1999). Moving the Psychological Soar Tutorial to HTML: An example of using the Web to assist learning. In D. Peterson, R. J. Stevenson, & R. M. Young (Eds.), Proceedings of the AISB '99 Workshop on Issues in Teaching Cognitive Science to Undergraduates. 23-24. The Society of the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.
Ritter, F. E. (1998). The nature of improvement: The power law, feeling of knowing, and strategies. Psychologie, Technische Universitåt Chemnitz. Dec 2
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.
Ritter, F. E. (1998). Extending user interface management systems to support cognitive models as users. Informatik [Computer Science], Technische Universitåt Chemnitz. Dec 2(2/1999). Dept. of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University. School of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University. Dept. of EECS, U. of Illinois at Chicago. ESRC Centre for Research in Development, Instruction, and Training, U. of Nottingham 6/99. George Mason University 12/99, D.S.T.O. (Australia) 2/00, Swinburne Inst. of Technology. 2/00 IPO, Technical University of Eindhoven. 3/00 Computer Science, Penn State.
Ritter, F. E. (1998). Discussant, Panel on procedural vs. declarative memory, Fifth Annual ACT-R Workshop, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E., Jones, G., Baxter, G. D., & Young, R. M. (1998). Lessons from using models of attention and interaction. In 5th ACT-R Workshop. 117-123. Psychology Department, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Ritter, F. E. (1997). An approach for routinely including interaction in cognitive architectures. Psychology, U. of Saarland, Germany, 18 December 1997.
Ritter, F. E. (October, 1997). Overview of methodologies for studying order effects. Plenary meeting, European Science Foundation's Programme on Learning in Humans and Machines. Mannheim, Germany.
Ritter, F. E., & Baxter, G. D. (November, 1996). Cognitive modelling in a more visibly principled way. Cognitive Science Seminar (Prof. Spada's group), U. of Freiburg, Germany.
Ritter, F. E., Baxter, G. D. & Jones, G. (November, 1996). U. of Nottingham update. Proceedings of EuroSoar-10. p. 3.
Ritter, F. E., & Baxter, G. D. (May, 1996). An engineering approach to user interface design based on extending a cognitive architecture. Cognitive Science Research Seminar, School of Computer Science, U. of Birmingham.
Ritter, F. E. (1995). What cognitive architectures can provide HCI. Colloquium presented at Ergonomics Unit, University College/London. October 1995.
Ritter, F. E. (1995). The Nottingham Cognitive Modeling Environment. Talk presented at the North American Soar XIV workshop and at the EuroSoar7 workshop; and at the Language and Cognition seminar series in Psychology, U. of Nottingham, November, 1995.
Ritter, F. E. (1994). Using process models as summaries of HCI data, colloquium presented at the Department of Psychology, U. of YorkFeb, LRDC (U. of Pittsburgh), March and Armstrong Lab, Brooks AFB. March
Ritter, F. E., Bibby, P., Marshall, S. S., & Lochun, S. K. (1994). Matching the predictions of a model that learns, paper presented at the Soar XIII workshop at THE Ohio State University. Also presented as invited talks at the U. of Freiburg, March, 1995, and at the U. of Nagoya, July, 1995.
Ritter, F. E., Nerb, J., Kindsmüller, M. (1994). Steps towards a series of models for a developmental task. Overheads included in the Proceedings of the EuroSoar 8 Workshop. 95-99. Graduate School of Experimental Psychology, U. of Leiden. Talk also given to credit, nov 94
Ong, R. L., & Ritter, F. E. (1994). Mechanisms for routinely tying cognitive models to interactive simulations. Overheads included in the Proceedings of the EuroSoar 8 Workshop. 71-87. Graduate School of Experimental Psychology, U. of Leiden. Also presented as an invited seminar at the Technical University of Berlin, March, 1995.
Ritter, F. E. (1993). Learning mechanisms in Soar. Talk presented to the Credit group, U. of Nottingham.
Ritter, F. E. (1993). Teaching real-time problem solving, CREDIT seminar.
Ritter, F. E. (1993). Discussant, Symposium on General Architectures of Cognition, held at the Sixth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
Ritter, F. E. (1993). Learning mechanisms in Soar. Talk presented to the Credit group, U. of Nottingham.
Krems, J., Nerb, J., & Ritter, F. (1993). Sched-Soar: Learning how to solve scheduling tasks, paper presented by J. Krems at the Soar Workshop 12, slides included in the proceedings.
Ritter, F. E. (May, 1992). Theoretically guided semi-automatic routine protocol analysis. Talk presented at the CHI '92 Doctoral Consortium. Abstract included in the proceedings. This talk was also presented as colloquium at the U. of York, the U. of Nottingham, and Queen Mary and Westfield College in April 1992.
Ritter, F. E. (October, 1992). Soar/PA. Demo/discussion presented at the Mind Matters symposium held in honor of Allen Newell at CMU.
Ritter, F. E. (October, 1992). Routinely testing Soar models with protocols. Talk presented at the Soar XI workshop. Overheads included in the workshop proceedings.
Ritter, F. E. (February, 1992). "Protocol analysis with Soar". Paper presented at the Soar X Workshop held at The University of Michigan. Overheads included in the proceedings.
Ritter, F. E. (1990). "Mendel-DP: Optimizing PDP learning rates". Paper and talk presented at the Eighth Annual Pitt-CMU conference, June 1990, and to the CMU PDP seminar, June 1990.
Ritter, F. E. (May, 1989). "Modeling a Feeling of Knowing". Joint work with Lynne Reder and Allen Newell presented at the Soar VI workshop held at the University of Michigan.
Ritter, F. E. (September, 1988). "ITS and Modeling the Seibel Task in Soar". Invited presentation at the Air Force Human Resources Lab, Cognitive Skills Assessment Branch, Brooks AFB.
Reder, L. M., & Ritter, F. E. (1988). Feeling of Knowing and Strategy Selection for Solving Arithmetic Problems. Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Psychonomic Society.
Ritter, F. E. (September, 1988). "Extending the Seibel-Soar Model". Presented at the Soar V Workshop held at CMU.
Ritter, F. E. (June, 1986). "A Random walk through AI". Presented as part of the BBN Laboratories Physical Sciences Division Seminar Series.
Ritter, F. E. (1985). "Simulated Annealing as a Function Minimization Technique" and "Simulated Annealing as a Planning Technique". Presented as seminars in a series on "Genetic and Other Probabilistic Algorithms" at BBN, and as a guest lectures to CS 113: Artificial Intelligence (graduate level course) at Brandeis University, October-November 1985.
Ritter, F. E. (November, 1986). "AI at Bolt, Beranek and Newman". Presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the AI Society of New England (AISNE) held at Yale University.
Ritter, F. E. (June, 1985). "TRIO Overview and Potentials". Presented to Major General Johnston, Director of Training, United States Army.
Shakir, A. (2002). Assesment of models of human-decision making for air combat analysis. Unpublished. Abstract included here with permission. Email Shakir or Ritter for report.
Ed Butler's PhD thesis, A Dynamical Study of the Generalised Delta Rule. 2000. School. of Psychology, U. of Nottingham (Ritter was internal examiner).
Ritter, F. E. (1992). TBPA: A methodology and software environment for testing process models' sequential predictions with protocols. PhD thesis, Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University. Available at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritter-thesis
Ritter, F. E., Reber, R., Ritter, S., Reber, P., Ritter, C., Reder, L. M., Ritter, J. M., Bodenhousen, U., & Etal, E. (1996). The effect of price on gustatory perception of fermented malt beverages. J. of Irreproducible Results, 41(3), 18-20.