Cognitive Science and AI
Saad, L., McCurry, J. M., & Trafton, G. (2024). Action and outcome predictability impact sense of agency. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).
Hiatt, L. M., Brooks, C., & Trafton, J. G. (2022). Validating and Refining Cognitive Process Models Using Probabilistic Graphical Models. Topics in Cognitive Science.
Blaha, L. M., Abrams, M., Bibyk, S. A., Bonial, C., Hartzler, B. M., Hsu, C. D., ... & Wong, R. (2022). Understanding Is a Process. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 11.
Howe, J. L., Young, C. R., Parau, C. A., Trafton, J. G., & Ratwani, R. M. (2021). Accessibility and usability of state health department COVID-19 vaccine websites: a qualitative study. JAMA Network Open, 4(5), e2114861-e2114861.
Trafton, J. G., Hiatt, L. M., Brumback, B., & McCurry, J. M. (2020). Using Cognitive Models to Train Big Data Models with Small Data. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1413-1421).
Zish, K., Aguiar, N., McCurry, J. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2018). A memory for goals account for priming in confidence judgments: Data and a Model. The 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.
Zish, K., Aguiar, N., McCurry, J. M., Altmann, E. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2018). The time course recovery of confidence judgments: Data and a Model. International Conference for Cognitive Modeling, 2018.
Gartenberg, D., Gunzelmann, G., Hassanzadeh-Behbahani, & Trafton, J. G. (2018). Examining the role of task requirements in the magnitude of the vigilance decrement. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
Tamborello, F., & Trafton, J. G. (2017). Human Error as an emergent property of action selection and task-place-holding. Human Factors, 59(3), 377-392.
Altmann, E. M., Trafton, J. G., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2017). Effects of Interruption Length on Procedural Errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23, 216-229.
Trafton, J. G., McCurry, J. M., Zish, K., Hiatt, L. M., & Khemlani, S. (2017). A cognitive model of social influence. The 39th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.
Hoffman, R. R., LaDue, D. S., Mogil, H.M., Trafton, J. G., & Roebber, P. J. (2017). Minding the Weather: How expert forecasters think. Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Hiatt, L. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2017). A familiarity, priming, and perceptual account of similarity judgments. Cognitive Science, 41(6), 1450-1484.
Thomson, R., Harrison, A. M., Trafton, J. G., & Hiatt, L. M. (2017). An account of interference in associative memory: Learning the fan effect. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(1), 69-82.
Tamborello, F., & Trafton, J. G. (2015). Action selection and human error in routine procedures. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2015.
Hiatt, L. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2015). An activation-based model of routine sequence errors. The international conference of cognitive modeling, 2015.
Tamborello, F., Trafton, J. G., & Altmann, E. M. (2015). Memory processes of sequential action selection. The 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.
Thomson, R., Pyke, A., Trafton, J. G., & Hiatt, L. M. (2015). An account of associative learning in memory recall. The 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.
Hiatt, L. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2015). A computational model of mind wandering. The 37th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting.
Gartenberg, D., Gunzelmann, G., Veksler, B. Z., & Trafton, J. G. (2015). Improving vigilance analysis methodology: questioning the successive versus simultaneous distinction. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2015.
Heitmeyer, C. L., Pickett, M., Breslow, L., Leonard, E. I., Archer, M. M., Ray, I., Aha, D. W., & Trafton, J. G. (2015). Building High Assurance Human-Centric Decision Systems. Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 22, 159-197.
Khemlani, S., Lotstein, M., Trafton, J. G., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2015). Immediate inferences from quantified assertions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(10), 2073-2096.
Zish, K., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Interruption Practice Reduces Errors. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2014.
Kirschenbaum, S. S., Trafton, J. G., Schunn, C. D., & Trickett, S. B. (2014). Visualizing Uncertainty: The impact on performance. Human Factors, (56(3) 509-520.
Trafton, J. G., & Ratwani, R. M. (2014). The law of unintended consequences: the case of external subgoal support. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual conference on Human factors in Computing Systems. ACM.
Khemlani, S. S., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Percentile analysis for goodness-of-fit comparisons of models to data. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Gartenberg, D., Gunzelmann, G., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). A Process Model of the Signal Duration Phenomenon of Vigilance. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2014.
Zuniga, J., McCurry, M., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). A Process Model Of Trust In Automation: A Signal Detection Theory Based Approach. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2014.
Lawson, W., Hiatt, L. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Leveraging Cognitive Context for Object Recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops.
Gartenberg, D., Breslow, L. A., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Situation Awareness Recovery. Human Factors, 56(4), 710-727.
Breslow, L. A., Gartenberg, D, McCurry, J. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Dynamic Operator Overload: A Model for Predicting Workload During Supervisory Control. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 44(1).
Tamborello, F. & Trafton, J. G. (2013). A Long-Term Memory Competitive Process Model of a Common Procedural Error. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Tamborello, F. & Trafton, J. G. (2013). A Long-Term Memory Competitive Process Model of a Common Procedural Error, Part II: Working Memory Load and Capacity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.
Gartenberg, D., Breslow, L., Park, J., McCurry, J. M., and Trafton, J. G. (2013). Adaptive automation and cue invocation: The effect of cue timing on operator error. SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2013).
Hiatt, L. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2013). The Role of Familiarity, Priming and Perception in Similarity Judgments. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Lawson, W., & Trafton, J. G. (2013). Unposed Object Recognition using an Active Approach, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP).
Khemlani, S. S., Gartenberg, D., Park, K. H., Trafton, J. G. (2013). Uncertainty can increase explanatory credibility. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Heitmeyer, C., Pickett, M., Breslow, L., Aha, D., Trafton, J. G., & Leonard, E. (2013). Realizing artificial intelligence synergies in software engineering. High assurance human-centric decision systems.
Pickett, M., Aha, D., & Trafton, J. G. (2013). Acquiring User Models to Test Automated Assistants. FLAIRS Conference.
Jang, J., Trickett, S. B., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2012). Unpacking the temporal advantage of distributing complex visual displays. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 70, 812-827.
Khemlani, S. S., & Trafton, J. G. (2012). mReactr: A computational theory of deductive reasoning. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Khemlani, S. S., Trafton, J. G., Lotstein, M., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2012). A process model of immediate inferences. Proceedings of 2012 International Conference of Cognitive Modeling.
Gartenberg, D., Breslow, L.A., McCurry, J.M., & Trafton, J.G. (2012). Time Pressure, Memory, and Task Knowledge Facilitate the Opportunism Heuristic in Dynamic Tasks. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting.
Hiatt, L. M., Khemlani, S. S. & Trafton, J. G. (2012). An explanatory reasoning framework for embodied agents. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 1(1), 23-31.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2011). A Real-Time Eye Tracking System for Predicting Postcompletion Errors. Human Computer Interaction. 26(3), 205-245.
Trafton, J. G., Altmann, E. M., & Ratwani, R. M. (2011). A memory for goals model of sequence errors. Cognitive Systems Research. 12, 134-143.
Gartenberg, D. I., McCurry, J. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2011). Situation awareness reacquisition in a supervisory control task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting.
Trafton, J. G., & Harrison, A. M. (2011). Embodied Spatial Cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science. 3, 686-706
Chen, J., Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). The Effect of Interruptions and Global Placekeeping on Postcompletion Error Rates. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54th Annual Meeting.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). A generalized model for predicting postcompletion errors. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2(1), 154-167.
Beck, M. R., Lohrenz, M. C., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). Measuring Search Efficiency in Complex Visual Search Tasks: Global and Local Clutter. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 16(3), 238-250.
Harrison, A. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). Cognition for action: an architectural account for “grounded interaction.” Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Hiatt, L., M. & Trafton, J. G. (2010). A cognitive model of theory of mind. International Conference of Cognitive Modeling.
Breslow, L., A., Harrison, A., M., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). Linguistic Spatial Gestures. International Conference of Cognitive Modeling.
Breslow, L., Trafton, J. G., McCurry, J. M., & Ratwani, R. M. (2010). An algorithm for generating color scales for both categorical and ordinal coding. Color Research and Applications. 35(1), 18-28.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). Developing a Predictive Model of Postcompletion Errors. Cognitive Science 2009. [Winner of the 2009 Cognitive Science Conference Applied Cognition Modeling Prize]
Breslow, L., Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). Cognitive Models of the influence of type of color-scale on data visuallization tasks. Human Factors. 51(3), 321-338.
Breslow, L., Trafton, J. G., & Ratwani, R. M. (2009). A perceptual process approach to selecting color scales for complex visualizations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 15 (1), 25-34.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). A Primer on Verbal Protocol Analysis. In D., Schmorrow, J., Cohn, & D. Nicholson (Eds.), The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education, Volume 1. (pp. 332-346). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D., (2009). How Do Scientists Respond to Anomalies? Different Strategies Used in Basic and Applied Science. Topics in Cognitive Science. 1(4), 711-729.
Lohrenz, M. C., Trafton, J. G., Beck, M. R., & Gendron, M. L. (2009). A Model of Clutter for Complex, Multivariate, Geospatial Displays. Human Factors. 51(1), 90-101. [NRL Alan Berman Award Winner]
Fransen, B. R., Herbst, E., Harrison, A., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). Real time face and object tracking. IROS 2009.
Trafton, J. G., Harrison, A. M., Fransen, B., & Bugajska, M. (2009). An embodied model of infant gaze-following. International Conference of Cognitive Modeling 2009.
Trafton, J. G., Altmann, E. M., & Ratwani, R. M. (2009). A memory for goals model of sequential action. International Conference of Cognitive Modeling 2009.
Harrison, A. M., & Trafton, J. G., (2009). Gaze-following and awareness of visual perspective in chimpanzees. International Conference of Cognitive Modeling 2009.
Frost, W., Bugajska, M., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). Incremental Modeling of Language Understanding Using Speech Act Frames. Cognitive Science 2009.
Brock, D., McClimens, B., Wasylyshyn, C., Trafton, J. G., & McCurry, M. (2009). Evaluating the Utility of Auditory Perspective Taking in Robot Speech Presentations. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD).
Ratwani, R. M., McCurry, J. M. & Trafton, J. G. (2008). Predicting post completion errors using eye movements. Computer Human Interaction 2008 (CHI 2008). [NRL Alan Berman Award Winner]
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2008). Spatial memory guides task resumption. Visual Cognition. 16(8), 1001-1010. [Lead Article]
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2008). Shedding Light on the Graph Schema: Perceptual features vs. invariant structure. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review. 15(4) 757-762.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2008). Thinking Graphically: Connecting Vision and Cognition during Graph Comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 14(1) 36-49. [Featured on Cognitive Daily: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/01/]
Wickens, C. D., Kaber, D., Mosaly, P., Trafton, J. G., Ratwani, R. M., Strayer, D., Boehm-Davis, D. A., St. John, M., & Smallman, H. S. (2008). The red-line of workload: Theory, research, and design. [Dream Panel for Chris Wickens]. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting.
Brock, D., McClimens, B., Trafton, J. G., McCurry, M., & Perzanowski, D. (2008). Evaluating listeners’ attention to and comprehension of spatialized concurrent and serial talkers at normal and a synthetically faster rate of speech. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD).
Trafton, J. G. (2008). Theoretical and Practical Developments in Cognitive Models and Agent Technologies Research. Cognitive Technology. 13(2), 5-7.
Kennedy, W. G. and Trafton, J. G. (2008). The Mathematics of Novelty as the Basis of the Exponential Law of Learning, The 41st Annual Society for Mathematical Psychology Conference. Washington, DC.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Beyond the Time Cost of Interruptions on Primary Task Performance: Understanding Errors. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2007). “What if...”: The Use of Conceptual Simulations in Scientific Reasoning. Cognitive Science, 31(5), 843-875.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., Saner, L., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). “I don’t know what’s going on there”: The Use of Spatial Transformations to Deal With and Resolve Uncertainty in Complex Visualizations. In M. C. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data (pp. 65-86). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schunn, C. D., Saner, L. D., Kirschenbaum, S. K., Trafton, J. G., & Littleton, E. B. (2007). Complex visual data analysis, uncertainty, and representation. In M. C. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data (pp. 65-86). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Trafton, J. G., & Hoffman, R. R. (2007). Computer-aided Visualization in Meteorology. In R. R. Hoffman (Ed.), Expertise out of context (pp. 337-358). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). The use of spatial cognition in graph interpretation. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kirschenbaum, S. S., Trafton, J. G., & Pratt, E. A. (2007). Comparative Cognitive Task Analysis. In R. R. Hoffman (Ed.), Expertise out of context (pp. 327-336). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Pfautz, J., Roth, E., Bisantz, A., Jackson, C., Thomas, G, Trafton, J. G., & Whitaker, R. (2007). Meta-information representation and communication. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 51st Annual Meeting
Kennedy, W. G., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Using simulations to model shared mental models. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).
Kennedy, W. G., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). Long-Term Symbolic Learning. Cognitive Systems Research. 8, 237-247.
Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., Stitzlein, C. A., Saner, L., Schunn, C. D., & Kirschen- baum, S. S. (2006). The relationship between Spatial Transformations and Iconic Gestures. Spatial Cognition and Computation. 6(1), 1-29. [Lead Article]
Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Toward a comprehensive model of graph comprehension: Making the case for spatial cognition. (pp. 286-300). In D. BarkerPlummer, R. Cox, & N. Swoboda (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Kennedy, W. G., Trafton, J. G. (2006). Long-term symbolic learning in Soar and ACT-R. International Conference for Cognitive Modeling, 2006.
Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., & Mintz, F. E. (2005). Connecting internal and external representations: Spatial transformations of scientific visualizations. Foundations of Science. 10(1), 89-106.
Bogacz, S., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Understanding Dynamic and Static displays: Using Images to Reason Dynamically. Cognitive Systems Research. 6(4), 312-319.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Shedding Light on the Graph Schema. The proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Representation Matters: The Effect of Graph Selection on Data Interpretation Among Experts and Novices. The proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Stitzlein, C. A. Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Simple gesture analysis in narrative speech: Expert-novice differences. The proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Spatial Transformations in graph comprehension. In A. F. Blackwell, K. Marriott, and A. Shimojima (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2004). From Specific Information Extraction to Inferences: A Preliminary Framework of Graph Comprehension. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Making Graphical Inferences: A Hierarchical Framework. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Use of Spatial Transformations in Graph Comprehension. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2004). Making inferences from graphs. Division 21/19 Mid Year meeting. [Best Student Paper Award.]
Trafton, J. G. (2004). Dynamic Mental Models in weather forecasting. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
Trickett, S. B., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Puzzles and Peculiarities: How Scientists Attend to and Process Anomalies During Data Analysis (2004). In M. E. Gorman, A. Kincannon, D. Gooding, & R. D. Tweney (Eds.), Spherical horses and shared toothbrushes: Recent developments in scientific and technological thinking.
Mintz, F. E., Trafton, J. G., Marsh, E., & Perzanowski, D. (2004). Choosing frames of reference. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
Trafton, J. G., Hegarty, M., Tversky, B., Schunn, C. D., Cassell, J., & Alibali, M. (2004). The relationship between spatial cognition and gestures. The proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., Watkins, T. E., & Trafton, J. G. (2003). How Novices Reason about Anomalies. The proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trafton, J. G., Mintz, F. E., & Ballas, J. A. (2003). Navy forecasters’ use of multiple data source on land and at sea. Naturalistic Decision Making.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2003). Thinking Graphically: Extracting local and global information. The proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2002). The Instantiation and Use of Conceptual Simulations in Evaluating Hypotheses: Movies-in-the-Mind in Scientific Reasoning. The proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Jones, D. W., Ballas, J. A., Miyamoto, R. T., Tsui, T., Trafton, J. G., & Kirschenbaum, S. S. (2002). Human systems study on the use of meteorology and oceanography informaiton in support of the naval air strike mission (Technical Memorandum No. APLUW TM 8-02). Seattle, WA: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington.
Trafton, J. G., Marshall, S., Mintz, F., & Trickett, S. B. (2002). Extracting explicit and implicit information from complex visualizations (pp. 206-220). In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, & H. Narayanan (Eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Bogacz, S., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). Understanding static and dynamic images (pp. 247– 249). In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, & H. Narayanan (Eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D., & Harrison, A. (2001). “That’s Odd!” How Scientists Respond to Anomalous Data. The proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the cognitive science society
Trafton, J. G., & Trickett, S. B. (2001). A new model of graph and visualization usage (pp. 1048-1053). The proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the cognitive science society
Lanzagorta, M. O., Rosenberg, R., & Trafton, J. G. (2001). Cognitive processes in scientific visualization. The proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering 2001.
Trafton, J. G., & Trickett, S. B. (2001). Note-taking for self-explanation and problem solving. Human-computer interaction, 16(1), 1-38.
Bugasjska, M. D., Schultz, A. C., Trafton, J. G., Gittens, S., & Mintz, F. (2001). Building adaptive computer generated forces: The effect of increasing task reactivity on human and machine control abilities. GECCO01.
Trafton, J. G., Schultz, A. C., Bugasjska, M. D., Gittens, S., & Mintz, F. E. (2001). An Investigation of How Humans and Machines Deal with Increases in Reactivity. The 10th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). Blobs, Dipsy-Doodles and Other Funky Things: Framework Anomalies in Exploratory Data Analysis. The proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., Fu, W., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2000). From Dipsy-Doodles to Streaming-Motions: Changes in Representation in the Analysis of Visual Scientific Data. The proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trafton, J. G, Kirschenbaum, S. S., Tsui, T. L., Miyamoto, R. T., Ballas, J. A., & Raymond, P. D. (2000). Turning Pictures into Numbers: extracting and generating information from complex visualizations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 827-850.
Trafton, J. G. (2000). Predicting Complex Information Using Qualitative Mental Models. Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation: User-Centered Design for the New Millennium, 18–19.
Schultz, A. C., & Trafton, J. G. (2000). A Hybrid Cognitive and Reactive Architecture. AAAI.
Miller, S. L., & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Natural language and direct manipulation search tools in a multimodal information system. Proceedings of ACM CHI’99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Miller, S. L., & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Improving information search using natural language and direct manipulation tools in a multimodal interface. HFES 43rd Annual Meeting.
Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Note-taking as a strategy for learning (pp. 742-748). The proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Learning and transfer of systematicity. Poster presented at the twenty-first annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Brock, D. & Trafton, J. G. (1999). Cognitive representation of common ground in user interfaces. In Judy Kay (Ed.), User Modeling, New York, NY: Springer-Wien. 287-289.
Lipps, A. W., Trafton, J. G., & Gray, W. D. (1998). Animation as documentation: A replication with reinterpretation. Intercom, 7, 199–201.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Raymond, P. D. (1998). Exploration in the experiment space: The relationship between systematicity and performance (pp. 1067-1072). The proceedings of the twentieth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Lipps, A. W., Katz, I., R., & Trafton, J. G. (1998). Factors affecting difficulty of generate and test in algebra problem solving. Virginia Academy of Science.
Lipps, A. W., Katz, I., R., & Trafton, J. G. (1998). Role of solution space in generating examples problems. Psychonomic Society.
Lipps, A. W., Trafton, J. G., & Gray, W. D. (1998). Animation as documentation: A replication with reinterpretation. The 1998 Society for Technical Communication.
Trafton, J. G., Wauchope, K., & Stroup, J. (1997). Errors and usability of natural language in a multimodal system. The proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97).
Trafton, J. G., Wauchope, K., Raymond, P. D., Deubner, B., Stroup, J., & Marsh, E. (1997). How natural is natural language for Intelligent Tutoring Systems? The proceedings of the nineteenth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trafton, J. G. (1996). Alphabet Arithmetic and ACT-R: A reply to Rabinowitz and Goldberg. The proceedings of the eighteenth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Brock, D. & Trafton, J. G. (1996). A preliminary architecture for the implementation of task model tracing. Third Annual ACT–R Workshop Proceedings.
Airth, M. E. & Trafton, J. G. (1996). An evaluative assessment of APPEX. Naval Research Laboratory.
Brock, D., Hix, D., Dievendorf, L., & Trafton, J. G. (1995). Extending the user action notation for research in individual differences. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting.
Sandoval, W. A., Trafton, J. G., & Reiser, B. J. (1995). The Effects of Self–Explanation on Studying Examples and Solving Problems. The proceedings of the seventeenth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trafton, J. G. (1995). DACSF: A methodology for creating synthetic tasks. Technical Report: AL/CF-TR-1995-0020. Brooks Air Force Base.
O’Donnell, B., Eddy, D., Cardenas, B., Trafton, J. G., & Campbell, J. (1995). Development of the situation awareness flight training and simulation evaluation (SAFTE) system: Definition of situation awareness measures and initial development of the flight simulator. Technical Report: AL/CF-TR-1995-0039. Brooks Air Force Base.
Trafton, J. G. (1995). A hybrid model using neural networks and ACT–R. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 27 (2), 183–186.
Trafton, J. G. (1994). Studying Examples and Solving Problems: A comparison of two models. Rice University, Houston, TX.
Trafton, J. G. (1994). A hybrid model using neural networks and ACT–R. Annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology.
Reiser, B. J., Merrill, D., Neel, K., Ranney, M., & Trafton, J. G. (1994). Reasoning– Congruent Learning Environments and Explanatory Guidance: Theory and Results of the GIL Tutoring Project. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Trafton, J. G. (1994). The contributions of studying examples and solving problems to skill acquisition. Ph.D thesis: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
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