ERIC Number: ED373103
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994-Apr-1
Pages: 22
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The EPIC Architecture for Modeling Human Information-Processing and Performance: A Brief Introduction.
Kieras, David E.; Meyer, David E.
EPIC (Executive Process-Interactive Control) is a human information-processing architecture that is especially suited for modeling 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 basic multiple-task situations. Some of these models are briefly illustrated here to demonstrate how EPIC applies to multiple-task performance, and helps to clarify some basic properties of human performance. Additional applications of EPIC to modeling human-computer interaction are briefly summarized. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computers, Interaction, Models, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Performance
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA.
Authoring Institution: Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor. Div. of Research Development and Administration.
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