An overview of the EPIC architecture for cognition and performance with application to human-computer interaction

  • Authors:
  • David E. Kieras;David E. Meyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

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.