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    "pk": 28178,
    "title": "Humans aren’t enough:Providing access for simulated participants to behavioral experiment software",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Behavioral studies often warrant the inclusion of computa-tional participants in addition to humans. However, connect-ing computational cognitive or AI frameworks to GUI-basedsoftware developed for human use is extremely difficult. Thisresults in researchers either (1) diving into software code toappend an API for computational participants, (2) developingtwo separate versions of task code – one for human and one forcomputational participants, (3) cherry-picking research tasksthat already include both a GUI and an API, or (4) finding away to publish the research “as is” without the potentially use-ful results from running simulated participants on task. Theseemingly minor nuisance of the API-GUI dichotomy in to-day’s world of software development is, in fact, responsiblefor reduction in scientific progress. This work proposes afunctional-essence approach to software development, and theuse of STAP (Simple Task-Actor Protocol) as a standard UIinteraction language, for overcoming the API-GUI dichotomyand enabling access to the same software for both human andcomputational participants. We envision the adaptation of theproposed methodology to enable selection of off-the-shelf be-havioral tasks, decorative templates, and cognitive/AI frame-works for a more efficient path to research results.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "behavior research methods; simulations; cognitivemodeling; synthetic users; simulated humans; standards"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97v637sm",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Vladislav",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Veksler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "DCS copr, US Army Research Laboratory",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Norbou",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Buchler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "US Army Research Laboratory",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Christina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lebiere",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Don",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Morrison",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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