Journal article
A multitasking general executive for compound continuous tasks
Cognitive science, v 29(3), pp 457-492
06 May 2005
PMID: 21702781
Abstract
As cognitive architectures move to account for increasingly complex real-world tasks, one of the most pressing challenges involves understanding and modeling human multitasking. Although a number of existing models now perform multitasking in real-world scenarios, these models typically employ customized executives that schedule tasks for the particular domain but do not generalize easily to other domains. This article outlines a general executive for the Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R) cognitive architecture that, given independent models of individual tasks, schedules and interleaves the models' behavior into integrated multitasking behavior. To demonstrate the power of the proposed approach, the article describes an application to the domain of driving, showing how the general executive can interleave component subtasks of the driving task (namely, control and monitoring) and interleave driving with in-vehicle secondary tasks (radio tuning and phone dialing).
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- Title
- A multitasking general executive for compound continuous tasks
- Creators
- Dario D Salvucci - Department of Computer Science, Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Cognitive science, v 29(3), pp 457-492
- Publisher
- United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000229537100006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-21244456346
- Other Identifier
- 991014877873304721
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- Psychology, Experimental