Although predictive human performance modeling has been researched for 30 years in HCI, to our knowledge modeling has been conducted as a solitary task of one modeler or, occasionally, two modelers working in tight face-to-face collaboration. In...
Experience Reports
Experience Reports present people's experiences using CogTool. The main purpose of the work highlighted here is to design, or evaluate designs, and CogTool or other human performance modeling was used to do so. Listed here are stories, pointers to other sites, and/or published reports.
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2012
John, B. E., Starr, S. M., and Utesch, B. S. (2012). Experiences with collaborative, distributed predictive human performance modeling. Extended Abstracts of CHI 2012 (Austin, TX, May 5-10, 2012). ACM, New York.
2010
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Usability concerns are often difficult to integrate into real-world software development processes. To remedy this situation, IBM research and development, partnering with Carnegie Mellon University, has begun to employ a...
Bellamy, R., John, B. E., Kogan, S. (2011) Deploying CogTool: Integrating quantitative usability assessment into real-world software development. To appear in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011
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2008
Samantha Levan, a usability and technology analyst based in Minneapolis tells why
"No matter which company I work for or what type of usability position I hold, I always include CogTool as part of my research...
2007
At CHI 2007, Maria Callander of the Calsbad Police Department reported on work with Lorna Zorman of Cal State University, where they used GOMS to evaluate the design of in-vehicle devices for police cars. They used GOMS in their process (not...
Callander, M. and Zorman, L. 2007. Usability on patrol. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 1709-1714.
Andrea Knight (Google) and Guy Pyrzak and Collin Green (NASA Ames Research Center) used a combination of empircal studies and cognitive modeling to redesign the way tabs are closed in Firefox. Their Experience Report presented at CHI 2007 is a...
Knight, A., Pyrzak, G., & Green, C. (2007). When two methods are better than one: Combining user study with cognitive modeling. In M.B. Rosson and D.J. Gilmore (Eds.): Extended Abstracts of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2007, (pp. 1783-1788). San Jose, CA: ACM.