Research Projects


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Current Projects

Command Line vs Eclipse with Parallel Toolkit

We are using CogTool to compare a new parallel programming toolkit built on Eclipse, with Vim, a programming editor typically used in command line environments. This comparison...

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CogTool research is continuing at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. See the CogTool Research Project at IBM.

Related Projects

A project at Drexel University, Dario Salvucci, Principal Investigator.

As driver distraction from in-vehicle devices increasingly becomes a concern,...

Archived Projects

A project in the early 2000s, we joined with Dr. Dario Salvucci at Drexel University to make it easy to create...

Boeing

Just as computational models that simulate air flow over an airplane wing allow more rapid and cost-effective exploration of different wing designs than building and testing physical prototypes, computational cognitive performance models allow...

Image of an interface sketched on a whiteboard, then imported into CogTool.

ONR’s Affordable Human Behavior Modeling Program was the initial source of support for the CogTool project and continued for for six years. It let us realize the vision of a tool for predictive human performance modeling tthat could be used...

Incollaboration with Dr. Lance Sherry at George Mason University, Drs. Peter Polson and Marilyn Hughes Blackmon at the University of Colorado, and Dr. Mike Matessa at Alion Corp, the objective of this project is to conduct foundational research...

NEC N905i phone modeled in this project

The specific goals of this project are to:

  • Develop a quantitative and reliable usability benchmark method for mobile devices based on predictive human performance modeling for both skilled task execution time and  exploratory...