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Symbolic AI Computer Simulations as Tools for Investigating the Dynamics of Joint Cognitive Systems

David D. WOODS

The Ohio State University

Emilie M. ROTH

Westinghouse Science and Technology Center

Based on our experience in developing a symbolic A1 computer simulation, we explore how such simulations can be used as a tool in the study of joint human-machine cognitive systems in field settings. We contend that cognitive simulation is best seen as a tool to aid a cycle of empirically based model development and model-based empirical investigations of joint cognitive systems. The chapter is organized around a series of principles or claims about simulations of cognition as related to complex human-machine systems.

The thesis of this chapter ...

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