Predicting and Preventing Errors



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.

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.

Zish, K., & Trafton, J. G. (2014). Interruption Practice Reduces Errors. Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference 2014.

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).

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.

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.

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]

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. (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.

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).