Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

In this paper we investigate the cognitive plausibility of an integrated framework for qualitative prediction of behaviour. The framework is based on the K A D S expertise modeling approach and integrates different approaches to qualitative reasoning. The framework is implemented in a program called GARP. To test the cognitive plausibility a physics problem involving qualitative prediction of behaviour was constructed. The behaviour prediction of this problem generated by G A R P was compared to think-aloud protocols of human subjects performing the same problem solving task.