A perception/action substrate for cognitive modeling in HCl

This article describes a general-purpose programmable substrate designed to allow cognitive modeling systems to interact with off-the-shelf interactiv e applications. The substrate, called VisMap, improves on conventional appr oaches, in which a cognitive model interacts with a hand-constructed abstra ction, an artificial simulation or an interface tailored specifically to a modeling system. VisMap can be used to construct static scenarios for input to a cognitive model, without requiring its internal modification; alterna tively, the system can be integrated with a cognitive model to support dire ct control of an application. (C) 2001 Academic Press.