Cognitive Modeling for Automated Human Performance Evaluation at Scale

Introduction.- Cognitive Approaches to Human Computer Interaction.- State of the Art of Cognitive Modeling Software Tools.- Integration of Behavioral Data.- Large-scale Human Performance Modeling Framework.- Example Applications of CogTool+.- Future Research Directions. 

Dr Patrice Rusconi received his combined BSc and MSc degree and PhD in Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He is currently a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey (UK) and the Programme leader for MSc Social Psychology, Erasmus Departmental Coordinator, and International Officer. He conducted part of his PhD research as a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego (US). He earned his PhD in Social, Cognitive and Clinical Psychology in January 2011 with a thesis on the psychological mechanisms involved in information search and evaluation. He continued to work at the University of Milano-Bicocca as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow before joining the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in Psychology in October 2013. In 2019 and 2020, he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology of the University of Milano (Italy) and at the Department of Psychology of the University of Torino (Italy). As a co-investigator, hewas awarded a grant from the EU on medical decision making in Parkinson's Disease and a joint Singapore's National Research Foundation and EPSRC grant on the role of human behavior in cyber security. His main research interests lie in the areas of social cognition, judgment, and thinking and reasoning. His current research projects concern social cognition, judgment and decision making, health psychology, problem solving and computational modeling, and, more recently, space psychology and the psychology of extreme environments.
Dr Haiyue Yuan is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP), at the University of Surrey. He received his BEng in Mobile Communication Systems and MSc in Finance at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD in Electronic Engineering/Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from the CVSSP at the University of Surrey in 2013,  where his research focuses on user aspects of stereoscopic 3D video