An Overview of the EPIC Architecture for Cognition and Performance With Application to Human-Computer Interaction
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Human–Computer Interaction
- Vol. 12 (4) , 391-438
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327051hci1204_4
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.Keywords
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