ICCM iGEN Tutorial

Development of Executable Cognitive Agents Using the COGNET TMArchitecture and iGEN Toolset Wayne Zachary (wzachary@chisystems.com) CHI Systems, Inc. 1035 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034-3701 Michael A. Szczepkowski (mszczepkowski@chisystems.com) CHI Systems, Inc. 1035 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034-3701 TMCOGNET/iGEN is a set of software tools (i.e., a o embedded models of the student/trainee to track workbench) that enables human performance specialists to student progress against the knowledge required develop, test and deploy cognitive agents -- software for the skill being trained; components that exhibit a level of intelligence that mimic o an embedded instructor/tutor that can manage human thought processes. Cognitive agents represent the presentation of information, sequence logical transition of research on human information instruction, and provide feedback/remediation; processing to practical application. Cognitive agents also and/or represent a new and growing paradigm for research in o synthetic teammates to facilitate practice and decision support, intelligent human-computer interfaces, teamwork in a simulated work environment. intelligent tutoring, etc. From an application perspective, • decision support and electronic performance support, cognitive agents empower the user by combining the speed, in the form of work-centered intelligent interfaces that efficiency and accuracy of the computer with the ...