Rob St. Amant's publications Below are papers my students and I have written, some of which are available as PDF files [or .ps.Z, as noted.] I have electronic versions of most of the rest, so if you'd like to see a copy, just send me mail. Proceedings: Begole, B., Payne, S., Churchill, E., St. Amant, R., Gilmore, D., and Rosson, M. B., editors. (2007). Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM Press, New York, NY. Journal and periodical articles: St. Amant, R., and Horton, T. E. (2008). Revisiting the definition of tool use. Animal Behaviour, 75(4):1199-1208. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.028. Healey, C. G., Kocherlakota, S., Rao, V., Mehta, R., and St. Amant, R. (2008). Visual perception and mixed-initiative interaction for assisted visualization design. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14(2): 396-411. St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., and Ritter, F. E. (2007). Model-based evaluation of expert cell phone menu interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction 14(1): 1-24. Ritter, F. E., Van Rooy, D., St. Amant, R., and Simpson, K. (2006). Providing user models with direct access to computer interfaces: An exploratory study of a simple human-robot interface. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 36(3): 592-601. St. Amant, R., Freed A., and Ritter, F. E. (2004). Specifying ACT-R models of user interaction with a GOMS language. Cognitive Systems Research. 6(1): 71-88. St. Amant, R. (2004). Environment modification in simulated navigation tasks for human-robot interaction. (Invited). International Journal of Computational Cognition 3(3): 65-73. St. Amant, R., and Young, R. M. (2001). Interface agents in model world environments. AI Magazine 22(4): 95-107. Winter. St. Amant, R., and Riedl, M. O. (2001). A perception/action substrate for cognitive modeling in HCI. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 55(1): 15-39. (IDEALibrary link) St. Amant, R. (2000). Interface agents as surrogate users. Intelligence magazine 11(2): 29-38. Summer. St. Amant, R., Lieberman, H., Potter, R., and Zettlemoyer, L. S. (2000). Visual generalization in programming by example. Communications of the ACM 43(3): 107-114. March. St. Amant, R. (1999). User interface affordances in a planning representation. Human-Computer Interaction 14(3): 317-354. St. Amant, R., Long, T. E., and Dulberg, M. S. (1998). Experimental evaluation of intelligent assistance for navigation Knowledge-Based Systems 11(1): 61-70. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1998). Intelligent support for exploratory data analysis Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 7(4): 545-558. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1998). Interaction with a mixed-initiative system for exploratory data analysis. Knowledge-Based Systems 10(5): 265-273. St. Amant, R., Kuwata Y., and Cohen, P. R. (1996). Monitoring progress with dynamic programming envelopes. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools 5(1-2): 143-153. Conference and workshop papers: Kutty, C. N., and St. Amant, R. Toward Video Games on Video. Under review. Layman, L., Williams, L., and St. Amant, R. (2008). MimEc: Intelligent User Notification of Faults in the Eclipse IDE. Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) Workshop, 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Layman, L., Williams, L., and St. Amant, R. (2007). Toward reducing fault fix time: Understanding developer behavior for the design of automated fault detection tools. First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM). Nicholson, S., Byrne, M., Fotta, M., and St. Amant, R. (2007). Visual systems interface. Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) Conference. St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., and Ritter, F. E. (2006). An AI Planning Perspective on Abstraction in ACT-R Modeling: Toward an HLBR Language Manifesto. ACT-R Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. Chang, Y.-H., Cohen, P. R., Morrison, C., and St. Amant, R. (2006). Piagetian Adaptation Meets Image Schemas: The Jean System. From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Nolfi S., Baldassarre G., Calabretta R., Hallam J., Marocco D., Meyer J-A, Parisi D., eds. Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4095. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 359-370. St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., and Ritter, F. E. (2006). AI support for building cognitive models. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, Nectar track), pp. 1663-1666. St. Amant, R., Morrison, C. T., Chang Y.-H., Cohen, P. R., and Beal, C. (2006). An image schema language. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pp. 292-297. Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. R., Cohen, M., Howes, A., John, B., Best, B., Lebiere, C., Jones, R. M., Crossman, J., Lewis, R. L., St. Amant, R., McBride, S. P., Urbas, L., Leuchter, S., Vera, A. (2006). High-level Behavior Representation Languages Revisited. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pp. 404-407. Williams, L., and St. Amant, R. (2006). A Visualization Technique for Bayesian Modeling. Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis Workshop, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. St. Amant, R., and Wood, A. B. (2005). Tool use for autonomous agents. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 184-189. Wood, A. B., and St. Amant, R. (2005). Effective tool use in a habile agent. Proceedings of the IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium. (Undergraduate and graduate student research symposium). St. Amant, R., Riedl, M. O., Ritter, F. E., and Reifers, A. (2005). Image processing in cognitive models with SegMan. (Invited.) Proceedings of HCI International. St. Amant, R., and Ritter, F. E. (2004). Automated GOMS to ACT-R model translation. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), pp. 26-31. St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., and Ritter, F. E. (2004). Model-based evaluation of cell phone menu interaction. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 343-350. Green, N., Kruger, J., Faldu, C., and St. Amant, R. (2004). A reduced QWERTY keyboard for mobile text entry. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), short papers, pp. 1429-1432. Butler, C. G., and St. Amant, R. (2004). HabilisDraw DT: A bimanual tool-based direct manipulation drawing environment. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), short papers, pp. 1301-1304. Williams, L., McBride, S., St. Amant, R., and Ning, P. (2004). Toward interface customization in intrusion detection systems. Workshop on Behavior-based Customization, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). (Invited.) St. Amant, R., and Butler, C. G. (2003). Demonstration: Two-handed interaction in a tool-based environment. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) demonstration. Riedl, M. O., and St. Amant, R. (2003). Social Navigation: Modeling, simulation, and experimentation. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 361-368. St. Amant, R., and Christian, D. B. (2003). Environment modification in a simulated human-robot interaction task: Experimentation and analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 174-181. St. Amant, R., Dinardo, M. D., and Buckner, N. (2003). Balancing efficiency and interpretability in an interactive statistical assistant. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 181-188. Simpson, C. A., and St. Amant, R. (2003). Search for efficient device-dependent action sequences in the user interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 297-299. Daughtry, J. M., and St. Amant, R. (2003). Power Tools and Composite Tools: Integrating Automation into Direct Manipulation Interfaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 233-235. Shah, K., Rajyaguru, S., St. Amant, R., and Ritter, F. E. (2003). Connecting a cognitive model to dynamic gaming environments: Architectural and image processing issues Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), pp. 189-194. Riedl, M. O., and St. Amant, R. (2002). Toward automated exploration of interactive systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 135-142. St. Amant, R., and Horton, T. E. (2002). A tool-based interactive drawing environment. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Extended Abstracts, pp. 762-763. St. Amant, R., and Dudani, A. (2002). An environment for programming user interface softbots. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 119-122. St. Amant, R., Blair, J. E., Barry, P. A., Bentor Y., and Healey, C. G. (2002). A visual interface to a music database. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 85-88. Ritter, F. E., Van Rooy, D., and St. Amant, R. (2002). Using a simulated user to explore human-robot interfaces. ACT-R workshop presentation. Ritter, F. E., Van Rooy, D., and St. Amant, R. (2002). A user modeling design tool for comparing interfaces. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces (CADUI). St. Amant, R., and Horton, T. E. (2002). Characterizing tool use in an interactive drawing environment. Second International Symposium on Smart Graphics, pp. 86-93. St. Amant, R., and Healey, C. G. (2001). Usability guidelines for interactive search in direct manipulation systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 1179-1184. St. Amant, R., Healey, C. G., Riedl, M. O., Kocherlakota, S., Pegram, D. A., and Torhola, M. (2001). Intelligent visualization in a planning simulation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 153-160. Riedl, M. O. (2001). A computational model and classification framework for social navigation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). St. Amant, R., and Zettlemoyer, L. S. (2000). The user interface as an agent environment. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents), pp. 483-490. St. Amant, R., and Zettlemoyer, L. S. (2000). User interface softbots Intelligent Systems Demonstration, AAAI. St. Amant, R. (2000). Planning meets user interface design: affordances, ibots, and PUMs (position statement.) IUI Workshop on Planning in Intelligent User Interfaces, 2000. Dulberg, M. S., St. Amant, R., and Zettlemoyer, L. S. (1999). An imprecise mouse gesture for the fast activation of controls . Proceedings of INTERACT, pp. 375-382. Zettlemoyer, L. S., and St. Amant, R. (1999). A visual medium for programmatic control of interactive applications. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), pp. 199-206. Zettlemoyer, L. S., St. Amant, R., and Dulberg, M. S. (1999). Ibots: Agent control through the user interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 31-37. St. Amant, R. (1999). Planning and user interface affordances. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 135-142. Healey, C. G., St. Amant, R., and Elhaddad, M. (1999). ViA: A perceptual visualization architecture. 28th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition workshop. St. Amant, R. (1999). Resolving conflicts in collaborative human-computer interaction (extended abstract.) AAAI Technical Report WS-99-08 (Notes from the Agents' Conflicts workshop.) AAAI Press. Pegram, D. A., St. Amant, R., and Riedl, M. O. (1999). An approach to visual interaction in mixed-initiative planning. Mixed-Initiative Intelligence workshop, AAAI-99. St. Amant, R., and Dulberg, M. S. (1998). An experiment with navigation and intelligent assistance. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 171-178. St. Amant, R. (1997). Planning and navigation in a mixed-initiative user interface. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 64-69. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. A planner for exploratory data analysis. (1996). Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS). AAAI Press, pp. 205-212. Reprinted in Readings in Agents. Huhns, M., and Singh, M., eds. Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 131-138. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1997). Evaluation of a semi-autonomous assistant for exploratory data analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 355-362. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1997). Interaction with a mixed-initiative system for exploratory data analysis Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pp. 15-22. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1997). Building an EDA assistant: a progress report. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI & Stats), pp. 501-512. St. Amant, R. (1997). Navigation for data analysis systems. Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis: Reasoning about Data. Springer, pp. 101-110. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1995). Preliminary system design for an EDA assistant. Proceedings of AI & Stats, pp. 502-511. Cohen, P. R., Gregory, D. E., Ballesteros, L. A., and St. Amant, R. (1995). Two algorithms for inducing structural equation models from data. Proceedings of AI & Stats, pp. 129-139. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1995). A case study in planning for exploratory data analysis. Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis, pp. 1-5. St. Amant, R. and Cohen, P. R. (1995). Issues in automating exploratory data analysis. AAAI Technical Report on Systematic Methods of Scientific Discovery, pp. 81-86. St. Amant, R., Yoshitaka Kuwata, and Cohen, P. R. (1995). Monitoring progress with dynamic programming envelopes. Seventh IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI, pp. 426-433. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1994). Toward the integration of exploration and modeling in a planning framework. Knowledge Discovery in Databases Workshop, AAAI, pp. 49-50. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1994). A planning representation for automated exploratory data analysis. D. H. Fisher and Wray Buntine, editors, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence Systems in Aerospace and Industry. Proc SPIE 2244, pp. 44-52. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1994). Automated analysis of complex data. Ninth Annual Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence, NASA Conference Publication 3268, pp. 161-172. Howe, A. E., St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1994). Integrating statistical methods for characterizing causal influences on planner behavior over time. Sixth IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI. Cohen, P. R., Ballesteros, L. A., Carlson, A., and St. Amant, R. (1993). Automating path analysis for building causal models from data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pp. 57-64. Cohen, P. R., Ballesteros, L., Carlson, A., and St. Amant, R. (1993). Automating path analysis for building causal models from data: First results and open problems. Knowledge Discovery in Databases Workshop, AAAI, pp. 153-161. Cohen, P. R., St. Amant, R., and Hart, D. M. (1992). Early warnings of plan failure, false positives and envelopes: Experiments and a model. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 773-778. Book chapters: St. Amant, R. (2005). Artificial Intelligence. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Bainbridge, W., ed. Berkshire Publishing. St. Amant, R. (2005). Statistical Analysis Support. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Bainbridge, W., ed. Berkshire Publishing. St. Amant, R., Lieberman, H., Potter, R., and Zettlemoyer, L. S. (2001). Visual generalization in programming by example. Your Wish Is My Command, Lieberman, H., ed. Morgan Kaufmann. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1997). Massive datasets and artificial intelligence planning. Massive Data Sets Workshop, Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Research Council. Cohen, P. R., Oates, T., and St. Amant, R. (1996). Plan steering and mixed-initiative planning. Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative. Tate, A., ed. AAAI Press, pp. 105-112. St. Amant, R., and Cohen, P. R. (1996). Control representation in an EDA assistant. Learning from Data: AI and Statistics V, Fisher, D. H., and Lenz, H., eds. Springer, pp. 353-362. Cohen, P. R., Gregory, D. E., Ballesteros, L. A., and St. Amant, R. (1996). Two algorithms for inducing structural equation models from data. Learning from Data: AI and Statistics V, Fisher, D. H., and Lenz, H., eds. Springer, pp. 3-12. Cohen, P. R., Hart, D. M., Ballesteros, L. A., Carlson A., and St. Amant, R. (1994). Path analysis models of an autonomous agent in a complex environment. Selecting Models from Data: AI and Statistics IV, Cheeseman, P., and Oldford, R. W., eds. Springer, pp. 243-251.