Education
Ph.D., George Mason University, 2003, Psychology (Applied Cognition & Human Factors)

Special Interests
Human performance modeling, training and skill acquisition, adaptive behavior, human-technology interaction, judgment and decision making, computational cognitive modeling

Selected Articles

Fu, W.-T., Anderson, J. (2008), Solving the credit assignment problem: Explicit and implicit learning of action sequences with probabilistic outcomes. Psychological Research, 72(3), 321-330.

Fu, W.-T., Anderson, J. (2008), Dual learning processes in interactive skill acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Applied, 14(2), 179-191.

Fu, W.-T. (2008), Is a single-bladed knife enough to dissect cognition?. Cognitive Science, 32(1), 155-161.

Fu, W.-T. (2007), Adaptive tradeoffs between exploration and exploitation: A rational-ecological approach. In W. D. Gray (Ed.), Integrated models of cognitive systems (pp. 165-179). New York: Oxford University Press.

Fu, W.-T., Pirolli, P. (2007), SNIF-ACT: A cognitive model of user navigation on the World Wide Web. Human-Computer Interaction, 22(4), 355-412.

Fu, W.-T., Gray, W. D. (2006), Suboptimal tradeoffs in information-seeking. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 195-242.

Fu, W.-T., Anderson, J. R. (2006), From recurrent choice to skilled learning: A reinforcement learning model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135(2), 184-206.

Gray, W. D., Sims, C. R., Fu, W.-T., Schoelles, M. J. (2006), The soft constraints hypothesis: A rational analysis approach to resource allocation for interactive behavior. Psychological Review, 113(3), 461-482.

Fu, W.-T., Bothell, D., Douglass, S., Haimson, C., Sohn, M.-H., Anderson, J. A. (2006), Toward a real-time model-based training system. Interacting with Computers, 18(6), 1216-1230.

Gray, W. D., Fu, W.-T. (2004), Soft constraints in interactive behavior: The case of ignoring perfect knowledge in-the-world for imperfect knowledge in-the-head. Cognitive Science, 28(3), 359-382.

Fu, W.-T., Gray, W. D. (2004), Resolving the paradox of the active user: Stable suboptimal performance in interactive tasks. Cognitive Science, 28(6), 901-935.

Fu, W.-T. (2001), ACT-PRO action protocol analyzer: A tool for analyzing discrete action protocols. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33 (2), 149-158.