Cognitive chrono-ethnography: A methodology for understanding users for designing interactions based on user simulation with cognitive architectures

Abstract

A handful cognitive architectures have been proposed in the BICA society that are capable of simulating human beings' behavior selections. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of designing interactions between users and the information provided to users via PC displays, traffic road signs, or any other information devices, and to suggest biologically-inspired cognitive architectures, BICA, are useful for designing interactions that should satisfy users by taking into account the variety of interactions that would happen and defining requirements that should satisfy user needs through user simulation using a cognitive architecture in BICA. A new methodology of defining requirements based on user simulations using a cognitive architecture, Cognitive-Chrono Ethnography (CCE), is introduced. A CCE study is briefly described. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.