ABSTRACT
Our goal is to construct a detailed simulation of UNIX user command production based on the construction integration theory of Kintsch, (1988), and building on the action planning model developed by Mannes and Kintsch (1988) and Mannes (1989). The performance we are modeling is that of UNIX users producing legal UNIX commands. Our subjects vary in expertise, and some of the tasks are difficult. But even for the easy tasks, the solutions cannot be precompiled, because familiar elements are put together in a novel fashion. It is presumed that subjects are not recalling fixed scripts from memory. Rather, they are producing action plans for each task.
