Applied Cognitive Science
Lab (this also is a type of home page)
School of Information
Sciences and Technology +1 (814)
865-4453 (office + answerphone)
Penn State University 865-5604
(fax)
316G IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Archive site of www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/ now
at
ritter.ist.psu.edu/nottingham/
Last (partial) update 25-May-09
Research Interests
I am interested in using cognitive modeling within a unified
theory of cognition such as
Soar or
ACT-R to test theories of
learning and to improve human-computer interaction. I have built
several tools to make model building, protocol analysis, and
statistical analysis easier. I am also interested in developing
stochastic learning and optimization algorithms to model behavior and
to improve other analyses.
What I
was up to 1992-2000, an incomplete narrative.
Current CV Papers site
My
paper depository, with numerous online versions of my papers
and pointers to software.
Projects include:
- The Applied
Cognitive Science Lab
- Technical Program, co-chair, BRIMS 2009 Conference
- Special issue on cognitive modelling in
IJHCS, 2001
- International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. It should
also be of interest for researchers in the fields of artificial
intelligence, cognitive psychology and computer linguistics.
- 9th: U. of Manchester, 23-26 July 2009
(tutorials program chair)
- 8th: U. of Michigan, 26-29 July 2007
- 7th: U. of Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006
- 6th: U. of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA July 2004
- 5th: U. of
Bamberg, Germany, 2003
- 4rth: George Mason,
26-28 July 2001
- 3rd: Gronigen, The
Netherlands
- 2nd:
European
Conference on Cognitive Modelling.
(How
to order the proceedings).
(Proceedings
online)
- Tutorials at the Cognitive Science Conference
- Simulating
Human agents, AAAI Fall 2000 Symposium Series.
- Able,
III, a model of means-ends analysis that learns
- routine model testing with protocol data,
- Dismal,
a spreadsheet for psychology and HCI, now available (11/01)
as part of GNU
Emacs
- The
Psychological Soar Tutorial for Soar (with
Richard Young and
Gary Jones and with Tony Kalus).
- Conferences and resources
Teaching (in the last few years)
Background
- Degrees/Qualifications:
- Chartered Psychologist, since 1997.
-
- PhD, Dept. of
Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon
University, December, 1992 (AI & Psychology program).
Thesis: TBPA: A methodology and software environment for testing
process models' sequential predictions with protocols.
Advisors: Allen Newell and Jill Larkin.
MS, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1989 (psychology).
Thesis: The effect of feature frequency on feeling-of-knowing and
strategy selection for arithmetic problems.
Advisors:
Lynne
Reder and Allen Newell.
-
- Graduate course work, Computer Science, Brandeis, 1986.
Graduate course work, Computer Science, Yale, 1984.
BSEE (cum laude), University of Illinois/Urbana, 1983
(electrical
engineering).
- Current Position
- Assoc. Prof. of Information Sciences and Technology in the
School of Information Sciences and Technology
Assoc. Prof. of
Psychology (associated
with the
cognitive
area)
Assoc. Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering
- Fulbright Senior Scholar to TU Chemnitz, September to
December 2005.
- Member,
ESF
Learning in Humans and machines,
Task
Force 3: Learning strategies to cope with sequencing
effects,
And its book.
- External examiner,
Knowledge
Management Systems, Cranfield U., 2002-2006.
- External examiner,
Cognitive Science degree, U. of Hertfordshire, 1997-2000.
- AI and
Simulation of Behavior Society and State College
ACLU committee member.
- Reader,
The British
Library.
- Reviewer for (partial list):
EPSRC
Chi99
- Member, IEEE,
IEEE
SMC Society, ACM,
ACMSIGCHI,
BPS,
Cognitive
Science Society,
APS,
AAAI,
Eta Kappa Nu,
Sigma X,
AISB.
-
Former positions/reference locations
- Lecturer (equivalent to US asst./assoc. professor)
associated with the
AI
group in the
Psychology
department, U. of Nottingham.
- Associated with the
ESRC
Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training
(ECREDIT). U. of Nottingham.
- Associate lecturer in
Computer Science, U. of
Nottingham.
- Invited speaker,
Symposium
on cognitive modeling 25 june 1999, U. of Groningen.
- Guest lecturer,
Autumn
School on Cognitive Science '97 run by the
Graduiertenkolleg (graduate college) in Intelligence in
Humans and Machines at the University of Freiburg
(Germany).
- Program committee:
3rd International
Conference on Cognitive Modelling,
Human
learning meets machine learning, One-day workshop held in
conjunction with the 10th European Conference on Machine
Learning (ECML'98) Chemnitz, Germany, April 24, 1998.
- Frank Ritter Memorial Ice
Arena, named, perhaps, for my future contributions to
society.
- Public Files I
used to maintain on the local ftp server (the University of
Nottingham's computing centre's machine).
- Public
Files I used to maintain on vpsyc (Nottingham's Psychology's FTP
machine).
- Public
Files I used to maintain in my filespace.
- Alta
vista
Please note, that strictly speaking, providing Alta Vista is
against the web policy of the U. of Nottingham in that it supports
links to sites containing sexually explicit material. So use at
your own risk.
- Guide to living in State College (draft
version)
- How
to be Phd Student by Agre
- A day in the life of a grad student
- A day in the life of a
professor
- Crisp
collection
- Other unusual collections:
- Another Frank
Ritter, the photographer
- Another Frank Ritter, the journalist
- Another
Frank
Ritter, the private investigator
- Another
Frank
Ritter, the Daoist instructor
- Another
Frank
Ritter, someone whose name I've looked up to numerous times in
my life, as have you, too, probably.
- Another Frank Ritter, the IT guy.
- Another Frank Ritter, referenced as a police sargent.
- Another Frank Ritter, a neurologist
- Another Frank Ritter, a manufactoring manager
- Another Frank Ritter, an ice arena.
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