Frank Ritter
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Psychology, Cognitive Science
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316G IST
University Park, PA - fer2@psu.edu
- 814-865-4453
Research Summary
Modeling effects of stress and behavior moderators on cognition within cognitive architectures.
Huck Graduate Students
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Most Recent Publications
Garrison, C. M., Ritter, F. E., Weyhrauch, P., Niehaus, J., & Bauchwitz, B. (in press). A computer-based tutor to teach nursing trauma care that works as an adjunct to high fidelity simulation. Abstract accepted for podium and poster presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, January 2019, San Antonio, TX. Will also appear as: Garrison, C. M., Ritter, F. E., Weyhrauch, P., Niehaus, J., & Bauchwitz, B. (in press). A computer-based tutor to teach nursing trauma care that works as an adjunct to high fidelity simulation. Simulation in Healthcare [journal supplement].
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CaffeineZone
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J54 Ritter, F. E., Qin, M., MacDougall, K., Chae, C. (in press). Lessons from surveying tutoring tools: It’s a big world out there. Interactive Learning Environments.
Frank Ritter, Interactive Learning Environments
Towards a comprehensive summary of the senses for cognitive architectures.
Frank Ritter, Serhii Serdiuk, 2024, on p. 152-158.
Professors Need Not Be Just a Pretty Face: How Faculty Directories Can Decrease the Opportunity for Bias and Better Support Users by Directly Providing Semantic Information
Frank E. Ritter, Aidan C. Engleka, 2024, Interacting with Computers on p. 224-239
A user model to directly compare two unmodified interfaces: a study of including errors and error corrections in a cognitive user model
Farnaz Tehranchi, Amirreza Bagherzadeh, Frank E. Ritter, 2024, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM
Caffeine and cognition: a cognitive architecture-based review
Sarah Ricupero, Frank E. Ritter, 2024, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
How Unusable Systems Can Be Successes: When You Are Not a Stakeholder
Frank E. Ritter, 2024, Ergonomics in Design on p. 56-61
J55 Ritter, F. E., & Ricupero, S. (2023). Running Behavioral Studies with Human Participants: Online. Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online. [case study]
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Lessons from a broad survey of tutoring tools: It's a big world out there
Frank E. Ritter, Michael “Q” Qin, Korey MacDougall, Chungil Chae, 2023, Interactive Learning Environments on p. 2444-2451
Most-Cited Papers
ACT-R: A cognitive architecture for modeling cognition
Frank E. Ritter, Farnaz Tehranchi, Jacob D. Oury, 2019, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
Adaptive virtual reality training to optimize military medical skills acquisition and retention
Ka Chun Siu, Bradley J. Best, Jong Wook Kim, Dmitry Oleynikov, Frank E. Ritter, 2016, Military Medicine on p. 214-220
Using a cognitive architecture with a physiological substrate to represent effects of a psychological stressor on cognition
Christopher L. Dancy, Frank E. Ritter, Keith A. Berry, Laura C. Klein, 2015, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory on p. 90-114
Learning, forgetting, and relearning for keystroke- and mouse-driven tasks: Relearning is important
Jong Wook Kim, Frank E. Ritter, 2015, Human-Computer Interaction on p. 1-33
Predicting user performance and learning in human-computer interaction with the herbal compiler
Jaehyon Paik, Jong W. Kim, Frank E. Ritter, David Reitter, 2015, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction on p. 26
Countdown timer speed
Moojan Ghafurian, David Reitter, Frank E. Ritter, 2020, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Evaluating a range of learning schedules: hybrid training schedules may be as good as or better than distributed practice for some tasks
Jaehyon Paik, Frank E. Ritter, 2016, Ergonomics on p. 276-290
Modeling visual search in interactive graphic interfaces: Adding visual pattern matching algorithms to ACT-R
Farnaz Tehranchi, Frank E. Ritter, 2018, on p. 162-167
Caffeine administration does not alter salivary -Amylase activity in young male daily caffeine consumers
Laura Cousino Klein, Courtney A. Whetzel, Jeanette M. Bennett, Frank E. Ritter, Urs M. Nater, Michael Schoelles, 2014, BMC Research Notes
Fitting a model to behavior reveals what changes cognitively when under stress and with caffeine
Sue E. Kase, Frank E. Ritter, Jeanette M. Bennett, Laura Cousino Klein, Michael Schoelles, 2017, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures on p. 1-9
News Articles Featuring Frank Ritter
Mar 07, 2023
College of IST awards seed grants to 8 projects
The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology recently announced eight projects that will receive funding from the college’s seed grant program.
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Feb 08, 2023
Information Sciences and Technology faculty, staff recognized with annual awards
Faculty and staff in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology were recognized at the college’s annual awards event this week. Recipients were nominated by their IST colleagues and selected by a review committee for their excellence in teaching, research and service.
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