ABSTRACT: Tetris is a complex task which taps into several human skills; among them perceptual learning, planning, motor skills, and sequential decision-making. Following a divide-and-conquer strategy, we adopt a machine modeling approach to isolate the contribution of sequential decision-making from…
2018! CogWorks Goes to Classic Tetris World Championships
The CogWorks Lab returns to Portland OR in October 2018 for our third round of data collection at the Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC). CogWorkers Catherine Sibert, Jackie Berry, and Wayne Gray will represent the lab in interviewing and collecting…
CogWorks go to the Classic Tetris World Championship in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 20-22
We are pleased to announce that the CogWorks Lab will be attending and collecting behavioral and eye data from the stars of the 2016 Classic Tetris Worldwide Championships being held this coming weekend (Oct 20-22) in Portland Oregon. Click here…
Catherine Sibert & Matt Sangster Present Work at MathPsyc
Sibert, C. and Gray, W. D. (2017). Successive mediocrity leads to steady, sure defeat: How novice Tetris players fail to manage their task environment. In Annual Conference of Mathematical Psychology/International Conference of Cognitive Modeling (MathPsyc/ICCM). Sangster, M.-D. D. and Gray,…
Game-XP paper now out!
Gray, W. D. (2017). Games-XP: Action Games as Experimental Paradigms for Cognitive Science. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(2), pp. 289-307. DOI 10.1111/tops.12260 Keywords: Cognitive skill acquisition, Skilled performance, Extreme expertise, Expertise sampling, Longitudinal studies, Action games, Video games, Computer games,…
Latest Publication
Latest publication: Gray, W. D. and Lindstedt, J. K. (2016). Plateaus, dips, and leaps: Where to look for inventions and discoveries during skilled performance. Cognitive Science, pages 1–33. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12412. Download copy of paper: http://homepages.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/papers/2017/gray17csj.pdf
CogWorks go to the Classic Tetris Worldwide Championship — Portland, OR — Oct 22-23!!
We are pleased to announce that the CogWorks Lab will be attending and collecting behavioral and eye data from the stars of the 2016 Classic Tetris Worldwide Championships being held this coming weekend (Oct 22-23) in Portland Oregon. If you…
CogWorker Presents Paper at HFES
CogWorker Matthew-Donald Sangster presented a paper on the ongoing CogWork project, Big Data Meets Team Expertise in a Dynamic Task Environment, at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, on Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 in Washington DC. A copy of the paper can be found…
CogWorker presents research at ECEM
CogWorker Ryan Hope presented his research on A scanpath algorithm for dynamic regions of interest and complex task environments, to the European Conference on Eye Movements, on Thursday, August 20th. A copy of his slides can be found elsewhere on this…
CogWorker Presents Poster at ECEM
150821-ecem-poster CogWorker Wayne Gray presented a poster on the ongoing CogWork project, Expert and Novice Differences in Gaze Transitions during Play of a Dynamic Video Game, at the European Conference on Eye Movements, on Friday, August 21st.