There has been a great deal of investment and resultant progress in the development and evaluation of, improvements to, and comparisons of cognitive architectures over the last several decades. Not all — however, certainly the majority — of that work has taken place since the publication of Weiner and Nagel’s (1988) fi rst volume on Human Factors in Aviation, so it is understandable both that t...

Cognitive architectures are theories of cognition that try to capture the essential representations and mechanisms that underlie cognition. Research in cognitive architectures has gradually moved from a focus on the functional capabilities of architectures to the ability to model the details of human behavior, and, more recently, brain activity. Although there are many different architectures, ...

We summarise selected recent developments and promising directions for improving the quality of models of human performance in synthetic environments. The potential uses and goals for behavioural models in synthetic environments are summarised. Within that context, we examine relevant, current work related to modelling more complete performance, for example, on cognitive modelling of emotion, a...

This paper reviews three hybrid cognitive architectures (Soar, ACT-R, and CoJACK) and how they can support including models of emotions. There remain problems creating models in these architectures, which itself remains a research and engineering problem. Thus, the term cognitive science engineering is introduced as an area that would support making models easier to create, understand, and re-use.