Welcome to the Seminar on Cognitive Modeling for User Interface Design.

Seminar description: This seminar presents the current state of the art of evaluating user interface designs using models of human performance that are based on cognitive architectures. Such models can yield usability results without the delay and expense of user testing of prototypes, but because they are new and still under development, whether and how to apply them is a challenge. This seminar will survey current theory and practice; no "how-to" of actual model construction will be presented; rather the goal is to enable a good choice of whether a modeling approach will be useful, and which type of model would be best to pursue.

Course dates: February 28, March 1, and March 2, 2005 from 1 - 3:30 p.m. EST

How this course will be offered: This online seminar will be delivered over the phone. Seminar materials will be available online. Each semianr session will provide opportunities for Q&A, and questions can be asked using the phone or email. An archive of each session will be available following the session.

Fees: None

Target audience: This seminar will be of interest to human-computer interaction researchers or designers who want an current overview of the modeling approach, or who are considering applying this approach to future projects. Prior background in psychology or user interface design is desirable; no prior knowledge of programming or modeling is required.

Sponsorship: The Cognitive Science program of the Office of Naval Research.