Support for macOS’s Dark Mode will be coming soon to CogTool!

What’s New

Introduces 64-bit compatibility, including support for macOS Catalina and Windows 10.

Hello World!

The CogTool website at Carnegie Mellon was taken down the first week of March 2014. All the content has been saved and will eventually appear here. I also intend to answer questions through this blog. Soon, I promise… (a song from “A Little Night Music”)

CogTool is moving to GitHub, at https://github.com/cogtool

Come join us at the CHI conference in Paris, France! There will be a half-day course on human performance modeling with CogTool on Tuesday April 30 from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
Course description.
Short video previeing the course.

Check out the lecture about CogTool at a UX class in Belarus.CogTool — сервис для подсчета времени выполнения задач

The paper is Experiences with collaborative, distributed predictive human performance modeling, by John, Starr & Utesch, got a Best Paper Award at CHI 2012. Join us at 11:30 AM on Tuesday May 8th at CHI to hear the presentation.Tools and Stats in Evaluation Session

At least 5 sessions at CHI 2012 will involve CogTool. Two research papers submitted involving the IBM CogTool research team (one on CogTool-Explorer and one on CogTool-Helper), a Case Study from IBM, and the Cognitive Crash Dummy course will be offered. There is rumored to be an additional research paper from outside the “usual suspects.” More details will follow when the CHI advanced program comes out.

The paper “Using Predictive Human Performance Models to Inspire and Support UI Design Recommendations” received honorable mention in the best paper competition at CHI 2011. Read more

By studying 100 new users of CogTool, we found that compared to doing Keystroke-Level models by hand, CogTool substantially reduces the number of errors and the variation in quantitative predictions. This means new modelers can be more confident of their predictions than ever before. Read about it in our paper at the BRIMS 2010 conference avaiable at its research publications page.

Version 1.1.3 is now available from the downloads area. It fixes several bugs.

Submitted by dfm on 16 October 2009 – 4:01pm

New features, updated User Guide, a step-by-step Tutorial, and it even works on Mac Snow Leopard.

Upgrade to CogTool 1.1 – it works wth Snow Leopard

The CogTool tutorial will be delivered both in person and on-line through Web+audio. This is the first time HFES will be putting any tutorials on-line and we are thrilled to be part of the experiment.

A paper by folks from salesforce at the HCI International 2009 conference in San Diego used CogTool in a new measure of “intuitiveness”. Check it out.

“Send in the GOMS” to save us from the “power hungry devices” heading our world towards “catastrophe.” Read all about it at Computer Science For Fun (CS4FN).

CogTool v1.0.4 fixes a bug in the cognitive model that CogTool creates when a task uses a context menu. Thanks to Katie Rivard at the Robotics Institute at CMU for finding this bug that escaped our notice for so many months.

CogTool 1.0.3 was tested in Feb 2009 by FindMySoft, according to Roxane Cohen, Mac Editor at FindMySoft.com. In her email, she congratulated the CogTool team for the quality of CogTool. Since CogTool exceeds the quality standards of many other software products in its category it has been granted the “EXCELLENT” software certificate.