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Selected Publications

2009

Cronin, M., Gonzalez, C., & Sterman, J. D. (2009). Why don't well-educated adults understand accumulation? A challenge to researchers, educators and citizens. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108, 116-130.

Gonzalez, C., & Brunstein, A. (2009). Dynamic decision making and training in disaster triage. Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care, 67(2), 100-105.

Gonzalez, C., & Czlonka, L. (in press). Games for peace: Empirical investigations with PeaceMaker. In J. Cannon-Bowers & C. Bowser (Eds.), Serious game design and development: Technologies for training and learning.

Gonzalez, C., & Saner, L. D. (in press). Thinking or feeling? Effects of decision making personality in conflict resolution. In J. V. Brinken, H. Konietzny & M. Meadows (Eds.), Emotional gaming.

Gonzalez, C., Saner, L., Endsley, M., Bolstad, C. A., & Cuevas, H. M. (in press). Modeling and measuring situation awareness in individuals and teams.

Gonzalez, C., Thomas, R. P., & Madhavan, P. (2009). The effects of conjunctive search and response mappings on automatic performance in a complex visual task. In D. H. Andrews, R. P. Herz, & M. Wolf (Eds.), Human factors issues in combat identification (pp. 85-98). Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Madhavan, P. & Gonzalez, C. (in press). The relationship between stimulus-response mappings and the detection of novel stimuli in a simulated luggage screening task. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science.

Saner, L. D., Bolstad, C. A., Gonzalez, C., & Cuevas, H. M. (2009). Measuring and predicting shared situation awareness in teams. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 3(3), 280-308.

Brenan R., Madhavan, P., & Gonzalez, C., (2009). The impact of performance incentives during training on transfer of learning. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX, October 19-23, 2009. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Dutt, V., & Gonzalez, C. (2009a). How do we perceive carbon-dioxide lifetimes? Paper to be presented at the USSEE 2009 Conference. Washington D.C., MD.

Dutt, V., & Gonzalez, C. (2009b). Human "mis"-perceptions of climate change. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX, October 19-23, 2009. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Dutt, V., Yamaguchi, M., Gonzalez, C. & Proctor R.W. (2009). An Instance-Based Learning Model of stimulus-response compatibility effects in mixed location-relevant and location-irrelevant tasks. In A. Howes, D. Peebles, R. Cooper (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling – ICCM2009, Manchester, UK.

Gonzalez, C., Dutt, V., Healy, A., Young, M. & Bourne, L. (2009). Comparison of instance and strategy models in ACT-R. In A. Howes, D. Peebles, R. Cooper (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling – ICCM2009, Manchester, UK.

Lebiere, C., Gonzalez, C., & Warwick, W. (2009). A comparative approach to understanding general intelligence: Predicting cognitive performance in an open-ended dynamic task. In B. Goertzel, P. Hitzler, & M. Hutter (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Arlington, VA: Atlantis Press.

Saner, L. D., & Gonzalez, C. (2009). Naturalistic decision framing in computer mediated scientific exploration. In B. L. W. Wong & N. A. Stanton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Bi-Annual International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (pp. 138-143). Swindon, UK: The British Computer Society.

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2008

Gonzalez, C., & Thomas, R. (2008). Effects of automatic detection on dynamic decision making. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 2(4), 328-348.

Dutt, V., & Gonzalez, C. (2008). Human perceptions of climate change. In B. Dangerfield (Ed.), Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (pp. 47). Athens, Greece: System Dynamics Society.

Dutt, V., & Gonzalez, C. (2008). Instance and strategy ACT-R models of choice in a dynamic control task: A model comparison story. In Proceedings of the Modeling, Simulation, and Gaming Conference (pp. 19). Suffolk, VA.

Martinez-Moyano, I. J., Samsa, M. E., Baldwin, T. E., & Gonzalez, C. (2008). Determinants of public confidence in government to prevent terrorism. Academy of Management Journal.

Saner, L. D., & Gonzalez, C. (2008). Mine emergency decision making. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh Research Laboratory.

Lacson, F., Gonzalez, C., & Madhavan, P. (2008). Framing and context effects in visual search training. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 52th Annual Meeting) (pp. 348-352). NYC, NY: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Young, M. D., Healy, A. F., Gonzalez, C., Dutt, V., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2008). Effects of training with added relevant responses on RADAR detection. The Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL..

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2007

Cronin, M., & Gonzalez C. (2007). Understanding the building blocks of systems dynamics. Systems Dynamics Review, 23(1), 1-17.

Gonzalez, C., & Wimisberg, J. (2007). Situation awareness in dynamic decision-making: Effects of practice and working memory. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 1(1), 56-74.

Graham, J., Gonzalez, C., & Schneider, M. (2007). A dynamic network analysis of an organization with expertise out of context. In R. Hoffman (Ed.), Expertise out of context. New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Best, B. J., Gonzalez, C., Young, M. D., Healy, A. F., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2007). Modeling automaticity and strategy selection in dynamic visual detection. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 3-11). Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.

Dutt, V. & Gonzalez, C. (2007). Slope of inflow impacts dynamic decision making. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. (pp. 79). Boston, MA: System Dynamics Society.

Gonzalez, C. & Dutt, V. (2007). Learning to control a dynamic task: A system dynamics cognitive model of the slope effect. In Lewis, Polk, & Laird (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 61-66). Ann Arbor, MI.

Gonzalez, C., & Vrbin, C. (2007). Dynamic simulation of medical diagnosis: Learning in the medical decision making and learning environment MEDIC. In A. Holzinger (Ed.), Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care. 3rd Symposium of the Austrian Computer Society (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4799), ISBN: 978-3-540-76804-3.

Kiziltas, S., Akinci, B., & Gonzalez, C. (2007). Understanding differences in information needs of expert and novice estimators from construction project histories. Paper presented at the 2007 ASCE Construction Research Congress, Grand Bahama Island, May 6-8.

Lebiere, C., Gonzalez, C. & Martin, M.K. (2007). Instance-based decision making model of repeated binary choice. In Lewis, Polk, & Laird (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) (pp. 77-82). Ann Arbor, MI.

Madhavan, P., Gonzalez, C., & Lacson, F. (2007). Differential base rate training influences detection of novel targets in a complex visual inspection task. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 51st Annual Meeting) (pp. 392-396). Baltimore, MD: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Vrbin, C. & Gonzalez, C. (2007). Probability learning in a dynamic simulated medical diagnosis task. 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Pittsburgh, PA.

Young, M. D., Healy, A. F., Gonzalez, C., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2007). The effects of training difficulty on RADAR detection. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and the Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 4-7.

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2006

Graham, J., Zheng, L., & Gonzalez, C. (2006). A cognitive approach to game usability and design: Mental model development in novice real-time strategy gamers. Cyber Psychology & Behavior, 9(3), 361-366.

Cronin, M., Gonzalez, C., & Sterman, J. D. (2006). Difficulties understanding system dynamics: A challenge to researchers, educators and citizens. In K. M. Weaver (Ed.), 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Available on CD-ROM). Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management.

Fu., W., & Gonzalez, C. (2006). Learning in dynamic decision making: Information utilization and future planning. In R. Sun (Ed.), The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006) (pp. 244-249). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Fu., W., Gonzalez, C., Healy, A. F., Kole, J. A., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2006). Building predictive models of skill acquisition in a data entry task. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 50th Annual Meeting) (pp. 1122-1126). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Gonzalez, C., Fu, W., Healy, A. F., Kole, J. A., & Bourne, L. E., Jr. (2006). ACT-R models of training data entry skills. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 101-109). Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.

Gonzalez, C., Juarez, O., Endsley, M., & Jones, D. (2006). Cognitive models of situation awareness: Automatic evaluation of situation awareness in graphic interfaces. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 45-54). Orlando, FL: Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization.

Gonzalez, C., Martin, M. K., & Hansberger, J. (2006). Feedforward effects on predictions in a dynamic battle scenario. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 50th Annual Meeting) (pp. 265-269). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Gonzalez, C., Thomas, R. P., Lim, J, Vrbin, C., & Madhavan, P. (2006). MEDIC: A tool to study physicians' cognition and decision making in medical diagnosis. Conference Poster. The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Boston, MA.

Madhavan, P., & Gonzalez, C. (2006). Effects of sensitivity, criterion shifts and subjective confidence on the development of automaticity in airline luggage screening. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 50th Annual Meeting) (pp. 334-338). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

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2005

Gonzalez C. (2005). Decision support for real-time dynamic decision making tasks. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 96, 142-154.

Gonzalez, C. (2005). Task workload and cognitive abilities in dynamic decision making. Human Factors, 47(1), 92-101.

Gonzalez, C., Dana, J., Koshino, H., & Just, M. (2005). The framing effect and risky decisions: Examining cognitive functions with fMRI. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26(1), 1-20.

Gonzalez C., & Lebiere, C. (2005). Instance-based cognitive models of decision making. In Zizzo, D. and Courakis, A. (Eds.). Transfer of knowledge in economic decision making. New York: Palgrave McMillan.

Gonzalez C., Thomas, R., & Vanyukov, P. (2005). The relationships between cognitive ability and dynamic decision making. Intelligence, 33(2): 169-186.

Gonzalez C., Vanyukov, P., & Martin M. K. (2005). The use of microworlds to study dynamic decision making. Computers in Human Behavior, 21, 273-286.

Bolstad, C., Cuevas. H. Gonzalez, C., & Schneider, M. (2005). Modeling situation awareness. In K. Gluck (Ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS).

Cronin, M. & Gonzalez, C. (2005). The building blocks of systems dynamics: What is the problem really? In J. D. Sterman, M. P. Repenning, R. S. Langer, J. I. Rowe, & J. M. Yanni (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (p. 61). Albany, NY: Systems Dynamics Society.

Graham, J., Zheng, L., & Gonzalez, C. (2005). A cognitive approach to game usability and design: Mental model development in novice real time strategy gamers. Paper presented at the 2005 Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 16-20.

Quesada, J., Chater, N., & Gonzalez, C. (2005). An explanation of decoy effects without assuming numerical attributes. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bussiarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2005) (p. 2542). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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2004

Gonzalez, C. (2004). Learning to make decisions in dynamic environments: Effects of time constraints and cognitive abilities. Human Factors, 46(3), 449-460.

Graham, J., Schneider, M., Bauer, A., Bessiere, K., & Gonzalez, C. (2004). Shared mental models in military command and control organizations: Effect of social network distance. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Available on CD-ROM.

Gonzalez, C., Juarez, O., & Graham, J. (2004). Cognitive and computational models as tools to improve situation awareness. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. New Orleans, LA, September

Juarez, O., & Gonzalez, C. (2004). Situation awareness of commanders: A cognitive model. Proceedings of the Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Arlington, VA, May.

Martin, M. K., Gonzalez, C., & Lebiere, C. (2004). Learning to make decisions in dynamic environments: ACT-R plays the Beer Game. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Pittsburgh, PA, July–August.

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2003

de Souza, C., Sanchez, A., Barbosa, S., & Gonzalez, C. (2003). Proceedings of the Latin American conference on human-computer interaction (ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, Vol. 46). New York: ACM Press.

Gonzalez, C., Lerch, F. J., & Lebiere, C. (2003). Instance-based learning in dynamic decision making, Cognitive Science, 27, 591-635.

Gonzalez, C., & Quesada, J. (2003). Learning in dynamic decision making: The recognition process, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 9(4), 287-304.

Graham, J., Gonzalez, C., & Doyle, M. (2003). Using communication patterns in the design of an adaptive organizational structure for command and control. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) (pp. 410-413). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Gonzalez, C. (2003). Verbal protocols from novices and experts in dynamic decision making. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Denver, CO, October.

Gonzalez, C. & Golenbock, J. (2003). Impact of numerical and graphical formats on dynamic decision making performance: An eye-tracking study. In A. Sánchez & C. de Souza (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Latin American Conference of Human-Computer Interaction. ACM; SIGCHI.

Juarez, O. & Gonzalez, C. (2003). MASA: Meta architecture for situation awareness. In K. Gluck (Ed.), Proceedings of the Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS).

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2002

Gonzalez, C. (2002). The role of cognitive modeling in enhancing dynamic decisions. In W. D. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2002) (p. 1005). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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2000

Gonzalez, C. (2000). Review of Human performance and ergonomics, edited by Peter A. Hancock. International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics, 4(3): 271-272.

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Before 2000

Gonzalez, C., & Kasper, G. (1999). Animation in user interfaces. In K. E. Kendall (Ed.), Emerging information technologies: Improving decisions, cooperation, and infrastructure. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN: 0761917497, 45-74.

Gonzalez, C., & Kasper, G. (1997). Animation in user interfaces designed for decision support systems: The effects of image abstraction, transition, and interactivity on decision quality. Decision Sciences Journal, 28(4), 793-823.

Gonzalez, C. (1995). Visual design of interaction, dialog, or interface. SIGCHI Bulletin, 27(1), 12-13.

Gonzalez, C. & Lerch, F. J. (1999). Modeling time pressure and individual differences in a real-time dynamic decision making task. In S. H. Zanakis & G. Doukidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute (pp. 795-799). Atlanta, GA: The Decision Sciences Institute.

Gonzalez, C., Sanchez, A., & Prates, R. O. (1999). Encouraging CHI collaboration in Latin America. Paper presented at the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (HFES), Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20.

Lerch, F. J., Gonzalez, C., & Lebiere, C. (1999). Learning under high cognitive workload. In M. Hahn & S. C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 1999) (pp. 302-307). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Medelez, E., Ayala, G., Gonzalez, C., & Lerch, F. J. (1999). Awareness and cooperation tools for a simulation-based learning environment. In B. Collis & R. Oliver (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (vol. 1, pp. 1128-1133). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Medelez, E., Ayala, G., Gonzalez, C., & Lerch, F. J. (1999). Diseno de un ambiente de trabajo cooperativo en internet (The design of a cooperative environment in internet). In R. Murphy (Ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Electronics, Communications and Computers (pp. 68-72). UDLA-P/IEEE.

Lerch, F. J., Harter, D., & Gonzalez, C. (1998). Individual differences in real-time dynamic decision making. Paper presented at the 4th Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, Warrenton, VA, May 29-31.

Lerch, F. J., Harter, D., & Gonzalez, C. (1998). Time pressure in real-time dynamic decision making. In E. D. Hoadley & I. Benbasat (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Americas Conference on Information Systems (pp. 252-254). Pittsburgh, PA: Association for Information Systems.

Gonzalez, C. (1996). Does animation in user interfaces improve decision making? In M. J. Tauber (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 27-34). New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery; Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Gonzalez, C. & Kasper, G. (1995). Animation in user interface design for decision support systems: Development of a research framework. In D. W. Olson & K. R. Sliwa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute: Competing in the global marketplace; A decision science viewpoint (pp. 58-60) Atlanta, GA: The Decision Sciences Institute.

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