Extending ACT-R for modeling dynamics and timing for operat-ing human-machine systems

An important current trend for the ACT-R community is to apply cognitive modelling to real world problems like HCI (Byrne 2001) or human machine interaction (Gluck 2002). Important developments of the architecture that are necessary to do so are PM for integration to the task environment and new ways of goal management. An area that still needs attention is timing for operating human-machine systems. With this contribution we want to promote the application of cognitive architectures for engineering applications in dynamic human-machine systems (HMS). In this section the notion of HMS and their dynamics are defined and the objective of this work is presented in detail.