In this paper, I describe how a cognitive model was used as a simulated student to help design lessons for training circuit board assemblers. The model was built in the Soar cognitive architecture, and was initially endowed with only an ability to learn instructions and prerequisite knowledge for the task. Five lessons, and a total of 81 instructions for teaching expert assembly were developed ...

Architectures that implement the Common Model of Cognition - Soar, ACT-R, and Sigma have a prominent place in research on cognitive modeling as well designing complex intelligent agents. In this paper, we explore how computational models analogical processing can be brought into these architectures to enable concept acquisition from examples obtained interactively. We propose new memory for Soa...

Finding information within websites is becoming an increasing challenge as the size and the complexity of websites soar. One possible solution is to adapt the view of the site to the task in hand. Although such a procedure is technically feasible, the effectiveness of such designs is yet to be tested. Assuming user scenarios that involve searches by browsing rather than structured queries, we b...

The tutorial provides participants with an understanding of the details of Soar so that they can create simple Soar programs. This is a full-day tutorial, with an emphasis in the morning on understanding the syntax and structure of the architecture (the memories and processes), and an emphasis in the afternoon on agent development. In the morning, participants will learn to run, modify, and deb...

Humans use visual imagery for a variety of purposes including reasoning about visual properties and spatial relationships, anticipating future events, recalling past experiences, and memorizing concepts and facts. Cognitive architectures have traditionally ignored visual imagery, but we have started to explore this phenomenon in the context of Soar. Soar provides the underlying control, memory,...

We investigate a general cognitive model of group behaviors, based on Festinger’s social comparison theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology theory. We describe two possible implementations of SCT process at an architectural level, on the basis of the Soar cognitive architecture. The first, which seems to follow directly from Festinger’s social comparison theory, treats the SCT process as an...