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CV for Michael Matessa

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Peter Matessa

mmatessa @ gmail.com

Education

Ph.D. Psychology Carnegie Mellon University 2000
Dissertation title: "Simulating Adaptive Communication"

M.S. Psychology Carnegie Mellon University 1998
Thesis title: "Modeling Focused Learning in Role Assignment"

B.S. Carnegie Mellon University 1989
Double major: Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) and Cognitive Science

Research Interests

Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence:
Communication
Cognitive Modeling
Simulated Agents

Professional Experience

2012-present Cognitive Scientist Rockwell Collins
  Research of flight deck communications.
Development of behavioral checklist of Crew Resource Management.
Video analysis of flight deck communication study.
 
2006-2012 Lead Cognitive Scientist Alion Science and Technology
  Creation of a tool to evaluate interfaces by automatically creating human performance models.
Development of agents with communication and spatial reasoning skills.
Development of a predictive model of procedure learning.
Integration of a cognitive architecture in a task network modeling system.
 
2006-2006 Research Scientist Micro Analysis and Design

Planning social and communication abilities in a biologically plausible cognitive architecture.

2000-2006 Research Psychologist NASA Ames Research Center

Human performance modeling and human factors analysis of aeronautic and space systems.
Development of collaborative workspace for Mars Rover scientists.
Evaluation of early design for Boeing 787 flight controls.

1989-1996 Research Programmer Carnegie Mellon University

Programming and administration of psychology experiments. 
Research involving computational models of human behavior.


Awards

Recommended Reading List Author - Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), 2004, 2008, 2009
NASA Tech Brief Award, 2004
NASA Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) Award - Human Factors contributor to the Ames MER Infusion Team, 2004
NASA Ames Honor Award - Member of Code I MER Technology Infusion Team, 2003
NASA Group Achievement Award - Successful collaboration with JPL infusing Ames technology into MER Mission, 2003
NASA Time Off Award, 2001

Citations

67 found with scholar.google.com
82 found with citeseer.ist.psu.edu
21 first-author citations

Publications and Presentations

Refereed journal papers

Vakoch, D., & Matessa, M. (2011). An Algorithmic Approach to Communicating Reciprocal Altruism in Interstellar Messages. Acta Astronautica, 68(3-4), pp 459-475.

Ball, J., Myers, C., Heiberg, A., Cooke, N., Matessa, M., Freiman, M., & Rogers, S. (2010). The Synthetic Teammate Project. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 16(3), 271-299.

Vera, A., John, B., Remington, R., Matessa, M., & Freed, M. (2005). Automating Human-Performance Modeling at the Millisecond Level. Human-Computer Interaction, 20 (3), 225-265.

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J. R. (2000). Modelling Focused Learning in Role Assignment. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15 (3), 263-292.

Anderson, J. R., Bothell, D., Lebiere, C. & Matessa, M. (1998). An Integrated Theory of List Memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 341-380.

Anderson, J. R., Matessa, M. & Lebiere, C. (1997). ACT-R: A Theory of Higher Level Cognition and Its Relation to Visual Attention. Human-Computer Interaction, 12, 439-462.

Anderson, J. R. & Matessa, M. (1997). A production system theory of serial memory. Psychological Review, 104 (4), 728-748.

Anderson, J. R. & Matessa, M. (1992). Explorations of an incremental, Bayesian algorithm for categorization. Machine Learning, 9, 275-308.

Book chapters

Laughery, K. R., Lebiere, C., Plott, B., Matessa, M. & Archer, R. (in press). Modeling human performance in complex systems. In Salvendy, G. (Ed.) 2012 Handbook of Human Factors.

Matessa, M. & Warwick, W. (2011). Virtual and Constructive Simulations with the GRBIL Modeling Tool. In L. Rothrock & S. Narayanan (Eds.), Human-in-the-Loop Simulations. Springer.

Matessa, M., & Mui, R. (2009). GRBIL: A Tool for Dynamic Operator and Environment Modeling. In P. McDermott, & L. Allender (Eds.), Advanced Decision Architectures for the Warfighter: Foundations and Technology (pp 237-254). Army Research Laboratory.

Anderson, J. R., Bothell, D., Lebiere, C. & Matessa, M. (2002). An Integrated Theory of List Memory. In T. A. Polk & C. M. Seifert (Eds.), Cognitive Modeling (pp 463-496). MIT Press.

Anderson, J. R. & Matessa, M. (1998). The rational analysis of categorization and the ACT-R architecture. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Rational Models of Cognition. Oxford University Press.

Anderson, J. R., Matessa, M., & Lebiere, C. (1998). The Visual Interface. In J. R. Anderson & C. Lebiere (Eds.), The Atomic Components of Thought. Mawhaw, NJ: Erlbaum.

Anderson, J. R., Bothell, D., Lebiere, C. & Matessa, M. (1998). List Memory. In J. R. Anderson & C. Lebiere (Eds.), The Atomic Components of Thought. Mawhaw, NJ: Erlbaum.

Anderson, J. R. & Matessa, M. (1991). An iterative Bayesian algorithm for categorization. In D. Fisher, M. J. Pazzani & P. Langley (Eds.), Concept Formation: Knowledge and Experience in Unsupervised Learning. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufman.

Refereed conference proceedings papers

Warwick, W., Matessa, M. (2011). Using Complex Systems Theory to Understand Emergent Behavior. Proceedings of Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2011).

Matessa, M. (2010). An ACT-R List Learning Representation for Training Prediction. Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1963-1967), Portland, OR.

Foltz, P. W., Sparks, R., Rosenstein, M., Carley, K., Martin, M., Warwick, W., Matessa, M., LaVoie, N., and Lauper, U. (2009). Developing an Integrated Toolset for the Tactical Human Integration of Networked Knowledge ATO. Network Sciences Workshop. United States Military Academy Network Science Center. October 26-28.

Ball, J., Myers, C., Heiberg, A., Cooke, N., & Matessa, M. (2009). The Synthetic Teammate Project. Proceedings of Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation.

Matessa, M. (2008). An ACT-R Representation of Information Processing in Autism. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Warwick, W., Archer, R., Hamilton, A., Matessa, M., Santamaria, A., Chong, R., Allender, L., & Kelley, T. (2008). Integrating Architectures: Dovetailing Task Network and Cognitive Models. Proceedings of Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS '08).

Matessa, M., Archer, R., & Mui, R. (2007). Dynamic Spatial Reasoning Capability in a Graphical Interface Evaluation Tool. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM '07), Ann Arbor, MI.

Archer, S., Archer, R., & Matessa, M. (2007). Our GRBIL has a Split Personality. Proceedings of the SAE Digital Modeling Conference, June 2007, Seattle, WA.

Matessa, M. & Brockett, A. (2007). Using a Diagram Representation System with ACT-R. Proceedings of Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS '07)

Matessa, M., & Polson, P. (2006). List Models of Procedure Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics (HCI-Aero), San Francisco, CA

Matessa, M., & Ravinder, U. (2006). Modeling Multitasking with Templates of Human Performance in Space Shuttle Procedures. Habitation, 10 (3/4), 201-202.

Matessa, M. & Remington, R. (2005). Reusable Templates of Human Performance in Space Shuttle Procedures. Proceeings of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference,. Waikoloa, HI.

Matessa, M. & Remington, R. (2005). Eye Movements in Human Performance Modeling of Space Shuttle Operations. Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference, Orlando, FL.

Huemer, V., Matessa, M., & McCann, R. (2005). Fault Management during Dynamic Phases of Spacecraft Flight: Effects of Cockpit Display Format and Workload. Proceedings of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, Waikoloa, HI.

Matessa, M. (2004). An ACT-R Framework for Interleaving Templates of Human Behavior. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 903-908), Chicago, IL.

Matessa, M. (2004). Anticipatory Eye Movements in Interleaving Templates of Human Behavior. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 184-189), Pittsburgh, PA.

Remington, R.W., Lee, S. M., Ravinder, U, & Matessa, M (2004). Observations on Human Performance in Air Traffic Control Operations: Preliminaries to a Cognitive Model. Proceedings of Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS '04), Arlington, VA.

Lee, S. M., Remington, R.W., Ravinder, U, & Matessa, M (2004). Developing human performance models using Apex/CPM-GOMS for agent-based modeling and simulation. Proceedings of the Military, Government, and Aerospace Simulation Symposium of the Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (pp. 49-54), Arlington, VA.

Remington, R., Matessa, M., Freed, M., & Lee, S.M. (2003). Using Apex / CPM-GOMS to Develop Human-Like Software Agents. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Melbourne, Australia.

Matessa, M. (2003). Measures of Adaptive Communication. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems (pp. 41-50), Johnstown, PA.

Freed, M., Matessa, M., Remington, R., Vera, A. (2003). How Apex Automates CPM-GOMS. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 93-98), Bamberg, Germany.

John, B., Vera, A., Matessa, M., Freed, M, & Remington, R. (2002). Automating CPM-GOMS. Proceedings of CHI (pp. 147-154). ACM, New York, NY.

Matessa, M. (2001). The Benefit of Structured Interfaces in Collaborative Communication. In Working Notes of the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium on Intent Inference for Collaborative Tasks (pp. 62-64), Cape Cod, MA.

Matessa, M. (2001). Interactive Models of Collaborative Communication. Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 634-638). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Matessa, M., & Anderson J. R. (2000). An ACT-R Model of Adaptive Communication. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 210-217). Groningen, NL: Universal Press.

Matessa, M., & Anderson J. R. (1999). Towards an ACT-R Model of Communication in Problem Solving. In Working Notes of the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems (pp. 67-72), Cape Cod, MA.

Byrne, M. D., Anderson, J. R., Douglass, S., & Matessa, M. (1999). Eye tracking the visual search of click-down menus. Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of CHI 99 (pp. 402-409). Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.

Anderson, J. R., Matessa, M. & Douglass, S. (1995). The ACT-R theory and visual attention. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 61-65). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lee, F. J., Anderson, J. R. & Matessa, M. P. (1995). Components of Dynamic Skill Acquisition. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 506-511). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ward, W., Issar, S. Huang, X., Hon, H., Hwang, M., Young, S., Matessa, M., Liu, F., Stern, R. (1992). Speech Understanding In Open Tasks. Proceedings of the Fifth DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, February 1992.

Young, S., & Matessa, M. (1991). Using Pragmatic and Semantic Knowledge to Correct Parsing of Spoken Language Utterances. Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), (pp. 223-227). Genova, Italy, September 1991.

Anderson, J. R., & Matessa, M. (1990). A rational analysis of categorization. Proceedings of the Seventh International Machine Learning Conference (pp. 76-84). Palo Alto, CA: Morgan Kaufman.

Posters/presentations

Warwick, W., Carley, K., Martin, M., & Matessa, M. (2011) Integrating Agent-based Simulation and Social Network Analysis. Talk presented at the Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling conference, Chantilly, VA. February 8-10.

Matessa, M. (2008). Spatial Reasoning in Cognitive Architectures. Poster presented at the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.

Matessa, M. (2006). Four levels of communication, error, and recovery in ACT-R. Paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual ACT-R Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, July 2006.

John, B. E., Lewis, R. L., Matessa, M., Remington, R., Vera, A. (2005). Scalable Cognitive Modeling Through Compositional Reuse. Office of Naval Research Conference on Affordable Human Behavior Modeling, Arlington, VA. June, 2005.

Matessa, M. & Remington, R. (2005). Model-based Support for Crew Activity Planning. Bioastronautics Investigators' Workshop, Galveston, TX. January, 2005.

Hayashi, M., Huemer, V., Renema, F., Elkins, S., Lawrence, B., Matessa, M., McCandless, J. & McCann, R. (2005). Effects of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade on Crews' Performance and Situation Awareness. Bioastronautics Investigators' Workshop, Galveston, TX. January, 2005.

Matessa, M. (2004). ACT-Stitch: Complex Predictions from Simple Descriptions. Human Factors Symposium, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

John, B. E., Lewis, R. L., Matessa, M., Remington, R., Vera, A. (2004). Scalable Cognitive Modeling Through Compositional Reuse. Office of Naval Research Conference on Affordable Human Behavior Modeling, Arlington, VA. July, 2004.

Remington, R., Matessa, M., Freed, M., Lee, S., & Ravinder, U. (2003). Scalable Human Performance Modeling. Paper presented at Human Performance Modeling Workshop. NASA Ames Research Center. October, 2003.

Matessa, M. & Polson, P. (2003). Re-use of a serial list model for aircraft procedure learning. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual ACT-R Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, July 2003.

John, B. E., Lewis, R. L., Matessa, M., Remington, R., Vera, A. (2003). Scalable Cognitive Modeling Through Compositional Reuse. Office of Naval Research Conference on Affordable Human Behavior Modeling, Arlington, VA. April, 2003.

Matessa, M. & Vakoch, D. (2003). Modeling Reciprocal Altruism and Forgiveness in Interstellar Messages: A Population-Based Approach. The Art and Science of Interstellar Communication Workshop. Paris, March 2003.

Remington, John, Vera, Matessa, Freed, Dalal, Harris, & Dahlman. (2002). Apex/CPM-GOMS. Cognitive Science Society Conference Tutorial, Fairfax, VA.

Matessa, M., Vera, A., John, B., Remington, R., & Freed, M. (2002). Reusable Templates in Human Performance Modeling. Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 649-654). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Matessa, M. (2002). Mathematical Descriptions of Human Behavior for Interstellar Communication. The Art and Science of Interstellar Communication Workshop. Paris, March 2002.

Vakoch, D.A., & Matessa, M. (2002). Communicating concepts about reciprocal altruism in interstellar messages. 53rd International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), Houston, TX; UNITED STATES; 10-19 Oct. 2002.

Dalal, Freed, Harris, Matessa, Rehling, Remington, Vera. (2001). Apex: An Architecture for Modeling Human Performance in Applied HCI Domains. Cognitive Science Society Conference Tutorial. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Freed, M., Matessa, M., Rehling, J., Remington, R., and Vera, A. (2001). Human-Task Adaptations: The Next Step for Cognitive Modeling. Poster presented at the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Fairfax, VA.

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J.R. (1999). Modeling Collaborative Communication. Poster presented at the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J. R. (1999). Modeling communication in a graph comparison task. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual ACT-R Workshop. George Mason University, August 1999.

Matessa, M. (1998). Testing a model of role assignment. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual ACT-R Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, July 1998.

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J.R. (1998). Testing a Model of Role Assignment. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Matessa, M. (1997). Focused learning in linguistic role assignment. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual ACT-R Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, August 1997.

Anderson, J. R., Lebiere, C. & Matessa, M. (1997). ACT-R: A Working Theory of Human Cognition. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.

Matessa, M., & Anderson, J.R. (1997). Focused Learning in a Linguistic Environment. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Matessa, M. (1996). An ACT-R model of menu search. Paper presented at the Third Annual ACT-R Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, June 1996.

Technical reports

Matessa, M., & Lovett, M. (2008). Optimal Training Systems. Technical Report AFRL-SR-AR-TR-08-0258, Air Force Research Laboratory.

Beutter, B. R., Matessa, M., McCandless, J. W., McCann, R. S., Spirkovska, L., Liston, D., Hayashi, M., Huemer, V., Lachter, J., Ravinder, U., Elkins, S., Renema, F., Lawrence, R., & Hamilton, A. (2006). Evaluation of an Onboard Real-Time Fault Management Support System for Next-Generation Space Vehicles (Intelligent Spacecraft Interface Systems Lab Report). Moffett Field, CA: NASA Ames Research Center.

Polson, P., Matessa, M., & Fennell, K. (in prep). Training Robust FMS Skills. NASA Technical Memorandum. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Matessa, M., & Polson, P. (2005). List Models of Procedure Learning. NASA Technical Memorandum 2005-213465. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Vera, A., Matessa, M., Freed, M., & Remington, R. (2004). Using Apex To Construct CPM-GOMS Models. NASA Tech Brief ARC-15072-1. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Matessa, M. (2004). An ACT-R Framework for Interleaving Templates of Human Behavior. NASA-TM 2004-212838. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Matessa, M. (2004). Anticipatory Eye Movements in Interleaving Templates of Human Behavior. NASA-TM 2004-212839. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Vera, A., Remington, R., Matessa, M., & Freed, M. (2001). Facilitating Human Performance Modeling. NASA Research And Technology Report. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Matessa, M. (1996). The ACT-R Visual Interface Manual. Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Young, Sheryl R. & Matessa, M. (1992). Using Pragmatic and Semantic Knowledge to Correct Parsing of Spoken Language Utterances. Technical report CMU-CS-92-120, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Young, Sheryl R. & Matessa, M. (1992). MINDS-II Feedback Architecture: Detection and Correction of Speech Misrecognitions. Technical report CMU-CS-92-119, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Invited talks

Analysis of Accommodation. Invited talk given at Communication Analysis Workshop. Tempe, AZ, 2010.

GRBIL and ACT-R. Invited talk given at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009 Introduction to ACT-R. Invited talk given at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2004

Adaptive Communication and Compositional Modeling. Invited talk given at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2003

New Developments in the ACT-R Visual Interface. Invited talk given at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany, 1995

Unpublished manuscripts

Matessa, M. (unpublished). A review of taxonomies, tests and task mappings for cognitive abilities.

Matessa, M., & Alibali, M. (unpublished). Handshape consistency in spontaneous gestural systems.

Matessa, M., & Young, S. (unpublished). Algorithms for processing spontaneous speech: restarts, mid-utterance corrections, and ill-formed input.

Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer for Cognitive Architectures - Stanford Fall 2002, Spring 2004
TA for Social Psychology (Pataki) - CMU Fall 1999
TA for Principles of Child Development (Siegler) - CMU Spring 1998
TA for Information Processing Psychology and AI (Anderson) - CMU Fall 1997
Lecturer for ACT-R masterclass - University of Groningen, Netherlands Summer 1997
TA for Production System Models of Thought (Anderson) - CMU Fall 1995
Lecturer for Annual ACT-R Summer School & Workshop - CMU 1994-1997

Activities

Reviewer NASA, Cognitive Science Society, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
Technical Monitor NASA
Special Session Organizer "Computational Models of Human Performance in Aerospace Systems" -- 2005 IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics
Session Chair Cognitive Science Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics

Professional Memberships

Cognitive Science Society BayCHI

Languages

Fluent: Common Lisp
Familiar: C#, Java, Javascript, awk, csh, HTML

Other

Community Facilitator for MIT's Climate CoLab
Steering committee member for the nonprofit group Transition San Lorenzo Valley
Citizen Science Volunteer (Planet Hunters, Solar Stormwatch, Galaxy Zoo, Citizen Sky)
Volunteer Science Advisor for ScienceBuddies.org, 2003
Webmaster for ACT-R group, 1996-2000
Volunteer Tutor for CMU's East End Tutoring Program, 1996-1999
Volunteer Tutor for Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, 1994-1996
Scuba certified (NAUI)
Six months of private pilot training
Certified Massage Therapist
Technician class amateur radio license (KB3TCT)
Amateur variable star observer (MMIK)
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