An Overview of the EPIC Architecture for Cognition and Performance With Application to Human-Computer Interaction

EPIC (Executive Process-Interactive Control) is a cognitive architecture especially suited for modeling human multimodal and multiple-task performance. The EPIC architecture includes peripheral sensory-motor processors surrounding a production-rule cognitive processor and is being used to construct...

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Published in:Human-computer interaction 1997-01, Vol.12 (4), p.391-438
Main Authors: Kieras, Davis E., Meyer, Davis E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive architectures
Cognitive systems
Computer architecture
Executive process-interactive control
Human performance
Human-computer interaction
Mathematical models
OCLC EPIC
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Summary:EPIC (Executive Process-Interactive Control) is a cognitive architecture especially suited for modeling human multimodal and multiple-task performance. The EPIC architecture includes peripheral sensory-motor processors surrounding a production-rule cognitive processor and is being used to construct precise computational models for a variety of human-computer interaction situations. We briefly describe some of these models to demonstrate how EPIC clarifies basic properties of human performance and provides usefully precise accounts of performance speed.
ISSN:0737-0024
1532-7051
DOI:10.1207/s15327051hci1204_4