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Come join us at the CHI conference in Paris, France! There will be a half-day course on human performance modeling with CogTool on Tuesday April 30 from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
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Check out the lecture about CogTool at a UX class in Belarus.

CogTool version 1.2.2 can now be downloaded and installed.

This minor update fixes three bugs:

 

  • In some cases manipulating...

The paper is Experiences with collaborative, distributed predictive human performance modeling, by John, Starr & Utesch, got a Best Paper Award at CHI 2012. Join us at 11:30 AM on Tuesday May 8th at CHI to hear the presentation.

Version 1.2.1 can now be downloaded and installed.

This version fixes a significant bug introduced in version 1.2, that affected only models...

At least 5 sessions at CHI 2012 will involve CogTool. Two research papers submitted involving the IBM CogTool research team (one on a href="http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/...

The paper "Using Predictive Human Performance Models to Inspire and Support UI Design Recommendations" rceived honorable mention in the best paper competition at CHI 2011.

CogTool 1.1.5 is now available from Download CogTool. This version simplifies installation and use on Windows machines. It is no longer necessary to...

Version 1.1.3 is now available from the downloads area. It fixes several bugs.

By studying 100 new users of CogTool, we found that compared to doing Keystroke-Level models by hand, CogTool substantially reduces the number of errors and the variation in quantitative predictions. This means new modelers can be more confident...

A paper by folks from salesforce at the HCI International 2009 conference in San Diego used CogTool in a new measure of "intuitiveness". Check it out.

Building on the Usability Study: Two Explorations on How to Better Understand an...

Version 1.1.2 is now available from the downloads area. It fixes a single bug, which was preventing CogTool from launching properly on Mac OS X version...

Version 1.1.1 is now available from the downloads area. It fixes several bugs, the most important of which is that CogTool now runs in the Windows 7...

New features, updated User Guide, a step-by-step Tutorial, and it even works on Mac Snow Leopard.

New features:

  • Works on MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
  • Much more informaton in the properties panes that help you keep track of...

Upgrade to CogTool 1.1 - it works wth Snow Leopard

 

Info about the old CogTool v1.0.x:

Several people have noticed that upgrading to Snow Leopard makes CogToolv 1.0 stop running.

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The CogTool tutorial will be delivered both in person and on-line through Web+audio. This is the first time HFES will be putting any tutorials on-line and we are thrilled to be part of the experiment.

See the a href="http://www.hfes.org/...

"Send in the GOMS" to save us from the "power hungry devices" heading our world towards "catastrophe." Read all about it at Computer Science For Fun (CS4FN).

CogTool v1.0.4 fixes a bug in the cognitive model that CogTool creates when a task uses a context menu. Thanks to Katie Rivard at the Robotics Institute at CMU for finding this bug that escaped our notice for so many months.

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