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Pub. period:1987-1989
Pub. count:6
Number of co-authors:4

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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Richard M. Young:5
Joyce Whittington:1
T. R. G. Green:1

Productive colleagues

Tony Simon's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

T. R. G. Green:70
Philip J. Barnard:47
Richard M. Young:31

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Publications by Tony Simon (bibliography)

1989

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Young, Richard M., Green, T. R. G. and Simon, Tony (1989): Programmable User Models for Predictive Evaluation of Interface Designs. In: Bice, Ken and Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 15-19.

“A Programmable User Model (PUM) is a psychologically constrained architecture which an interface designer is invited to program to simulate a user performing a range of tasks with a proposed interface. It provides a novel way of conveying psychological considerations to the designer, by involving the designer in the process of making predictions of usability. Development of the idea leads to a complementary perspective, of the PUM as an interpreter for an "instruction language". The methodology used in this research involves the use of concrete HCI scenarios to assess different approaches to cognitive modelling. The research findings include analyses of the cognitive processes involved in the use of interactive computer systems, and a number of issues to be resolved in future cognitive models.”

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Young, Richard M., Barnard, Philip J., Simon, Tony and Whittington, Joyce (1989): How Would Your Favourite User Model Cope with These Scenarios?. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 20 (4) pp. 51-55.

1988

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Simon, Tony (1988): Analysing the Scope of Cognitive Models in Human-Computer Interaction: A Trade-Off Approach. In: Jones, Dylan M. and Winder, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers IV August 5-9, 1988, University of Manchester, UK. pp. 79-93.

“One of the main contributions of Cognitive Science to HCI has been the development of predictive models of user behaviour. However, such models are necessarily limited in the scope of predictions they can make; their strengths usually being determined on the basis of pragmatic trade-offs. At present, no rational taxonomy of the different types of model exists. Thus, would be user-modellers find little guidance about which model is most likely to deliver the kind of predictions in which they are interested. Even less available is information about what will not be delivered when employing any given model. This paper presents a representation of the space of some user-models in HCI which reveals their scope by making explicit such trade-offs.”

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Simon, Tony and Young, Richard M. (1988): GOMS Meets STRIPS: The Integration of Planning with Skilled Procedure Execution in Human-Computer Interaction. In: Jones, Dylan M. and Winder, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers IV August 5-9, 1988, University of Manchester, UK. pp. 581-594.

“In the context of modelling user behaviour in HCI, deliberate planning based on problem solving and the fluent execution of skilled procedures are usually treated as different kinds of behaviour and modelled by different kinds of model. In this paper we draw on previous work which argues that user modelling requires a different notion of planning from that commonly discussed in the Artificial Intelligence literature, and show that problem solving and routine cognitive skill can be regarded as opposite ends of the same continuum. A simple planner, making use of a flexible hierarchical representation for plans and operators, can provide a single mechanism able to generate behaviour spanning the entire spectrum. This integration of planning with routine cognitive skill offers a basis for unifying existing models of HCI and for extending their scope.”

1987

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Young, Richard M. and Simon, Tony (1987): Planning in the Context of Human-Computer Interaction. In: Carroll, John M. and Tanner, Peter P. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 87 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-9, 1987, Toronto, Canada. pp. 363-370.

“Interacting with a computer system requires the user to undertake a certain amount of planning, although good interactive systems minimise the need for this kind of cognitive activity. The planning relevant in an HCI context differs in emphasis from that studied in Artificial Intelligence. The very nature of interactive computing environments generates a number of implications for the planning process, the chief of which are (1) that the activity of planning is intimately interleaved with the execution of the plans, and (2) that simple, partial plans are more appropriate than complex, detailed ones. Such an approach to planning yields behaviour bridging the spectrum from backwards-chaining puzzle-like problem solving at one extreme, to the smooth execution of routine methods at the other.”

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Young, Richard M. and Simon, Tony (1987): Planning in the Context of Human-Computer Interaction. In: Diaper, Dan and Winder, Russel (eds.) Proceedings of the Third Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers III August 7-11, 1987, University of Exeter, UK. pp. 363-370.

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