Modeling Human Behavior

Knowledge

None

Description

This course offers an introduction to modeling human behavior using mathematical and computational methods. This includes approaches like computational rationality, game theory, individual-based simulations, task analysis, and other data-driven methods.

Learning objectives

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to

•    Explain different approaches to how human behavior can be formally modeled
•    Explain the benefits and limitations of these ap-proaches
•    Create models for simple scenarios
•    Apply this knowledge to design studies to verify mod-els and their assumptions and validate specific de-signs against the model
 

Comment

Content:
• Introduction to human behavior modeling
• Introduction to Game Theory
• Task analysis and rule-based behavior models (GOMS, KLM, ACT-R)
• Data-driven modelling
• Introduction to computational rationality