A list of papers and books that have stood the test of time. This list will be expanded, trimmed, and otherwise edited as time goes by. [None of these are newer than 2000.]
Simon, H. A. (1996). The sciences of the artificial (Third ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Simon, H. A. (1992). What is an “explanation” of behavior? Psychological Science, 3(3), 150–161.
Newell, A. (1973). You can't play 20 questions with nature and win: Projective comments on the papers of this symposium. In W. G. Chase (Ed.), Visual information processing (pp. 283–308). New York: Academic Press.
Anderson, J. R. (1990). The adaptive character of thought. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Card, S. K., Moran, T. P., & Newell, A. (1983). The psychology of human-computer interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Dennett, D. C. (1995). Darwin's dangerous idea: Evolution and the meanings of life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Gilbreth, F. B., & Gilbreth, L. M. (1917). Applied motion study. New York: The MacMillan Company.
Agre, P. E., & Shrager, J. (1990). Routine evolution as the microgenetic basis of skill acquisition. In Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 694–701). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hayhoe, M. M. (2000). Vision using routines: A functional account of vision. Visual Cognition, 7(1-3), 43–64.
Norman, D. A., & Bobrow, D. G. (1975). On data-limited and resource-limited processes. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 44–64.
Anzai, Y., & Simon, H. A. (1979). The theory of learning by doing. Psychological Review, 86(2), 124–140.
Bloom, B. S. (1984, June/July). The 2 sigma problem: The search for methods of group instruction as effective as one-to-one tutoring. Educational Researcher, 13, 4–16.
Bovair, S., Kieras, D. E., & Polson, P. G. (1990). The acquisition and performance of text-editing skill: A cognitive complexity analysis. Human-Computer Interaction, 5(1), 1–48.
Brooks, R. A. (1991). Intelligence without Representation. Artificial Intelligence, 47(1-3), 139-159.
Byrne, M. D., & Bovair, S. (1997). A working memory model of a common procedural error. Cognitive Science, 21(1), 31–61.
Card, S. K., Mackinlay, J. D., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Information visualization. In S. K. Card, J. D. Mackinlay & B. Shneiderman (Eds.), Information visualization: Using vision to think (pp. 1-34). New York: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Carpenter, P. A., Just, M. A., & Shell, P. (1990). What one intelligence test measures: A theoretical account of the processing in the Raven Progressive Matrices Test. Psychological Review, 97, 404–431.
Chase, W. G., & Simon, H. A. (1973). Perception in Chess. Cognitive Psychology, 4(1), 55–81.
Chi, M. T. H., Bassok, M., Lewis, M. W., Reimann, P., & Glaser, R. (1989). Self-explanations: How students study and use examples in learning to solve problems. Cognitive Science, 13(2), 145–182.
Chi, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J., & Glaser, R. (1981). Categorization and representation of physics problems by experts and novices. Cognitive Science, 5(2), 121–152.
Ericsson, K. A., & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long-term working memory. Psychological Review, 102(2), 211–245.
Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review, 100(3), 363–406.
Ericsson, K. A., & Simon, H. A. (1993). Protocol analysis: Verbal reports as data (Revised ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Ericsson, K. A., Chase, W. G., & Faloon, S. (1980). Acquisition Of A Memory Skill. Science, 208(4448), 1181-1182.
Findlay, J. M. (1982). Global visual processing for saccadic eye movements. Vision Research, 22(8), 1033–1045.
Fitts, P. M. (1954). The Information Capacity of the Human Motor System in Controlling the Amplitude of Movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47(6), 381–391.
Greeno, J. G., & Simon, H. A. (1988). Problem solving and reasoning. In R. C. Atkinson, R. J. Herrnstein, G. Lindzey & R. D. Luce (Eds.), Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology (Vol. 2: Learning and cognition, pp. 589–672). New York: Wiley.
Herrnstein, R. J. (1991). Experiments on stable suboptimality in individual behavior. The American Economic Review, 81(2), 360-364.
Howes, A., & Young, R. M. (1997). The role of cognitive architecture in modelling the user: Soar's learning mechanism. Human-Computer Interaction, 12(4), 311–343.
Newell, A., & Card, S. K. (1985). The prospects for psychological science in human-computer interaction. Human-Computer Interaction, 1(3), 209–242.
Card, S. K., English, W. K., & Burr, B. J. (1978). Evaluation of mouse, rate-controlled isometric joystick, step keys and text keys for text selection on a CRT. Ergonomics, 21(8), 601–613.
Elkerton, J., & Palmiter, S. L. (1991). Designing help using a GOMS model: An information retrieval evaluation. Human Factors, 33(2), 185–204.
Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., Gomez, L. M., & Dumais, S. T. (1987). The Vocabulary Problem in Human System Communication. Communications of the ACM, 30(11), 964–971.
Gong, R., & Kieras, D. E. (1994). A Validation of the GOMS Model Methodology in the Development of a Specialized, Commercial Software Application. In B. Adelson, S. Dumais & J. Olson (Eds.), ACM CHI'94 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vol. 1, pp. 351–357). New York: ACM Press.
Gopher, D., & Donchin, E. (1986). Workload: An examination of the concept. In K. R. Boff, L. Kaufmann & J. P. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and human performance (Vol. II, pp. 41.41–41.49). New York: Wiley.
Hutchins, E. (1995). How a Cockpit remembers its speed. Cognitive Science, 19(3), 265–288.
Hutchins, E. L., Hollan, J. D., & Norman, D. A. (1985). Direct manipulation interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, 1(4), 311–338.
John, B. E., & Kieras, D. E. (1996). The GOMS family of user interface analysis techniques: Comparison and contrast. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 3(4), 320–351.
John, B. E., & Kieras, D. E. (1996). Using GOMS for user interface design and evaluation: Which technique? ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 3(4), 287–319.
Greenwald, A. G. (1976). Within-subjects designs: To use or not to use? Psychological Bulletin, 83(2), 314–320.
Harel, D. (1988). On visual formalisms. Communications of the ACM, 31(5), 514–530.
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