The role of cognitive architecture in modeling the user: Soar's learning mechanism

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-343

  Howes, Andrew ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

SOAR'S LEARNING MECHANISM;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0031340052     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci1204_2     Document Type: Article

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