PUBLICATIONS
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2025). Metacognition in HCI: Designing systems for planning and flexibility. In R. A. Sottilare & J. Schwarz (Eds.), Adaptive Instructional Systems (Vol. 15812, pp. 176–187). Springer. pdf
Conway-Smith, B. (2025 in press). Metacognition as a domain of skill. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2025 in press). Metacognitive Mechanisms of the Attentional Training Technique. In Proceedings of ICCM 2025, 23rd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2024). The Computational Mechanisms of Detached Mindfulness. In Proceedings of ICCM 2024, 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2024). Toward Autonomy: Metacognitive Learning for Enhanced AI Performance. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Human-Like Learning in AI. pdf
West, R., Eckler, S., Conway-Smith, B., Turcas, N., Tomkins-Flanagan, E., Kelly, M. (2023). Bridging generative networks with the common model of cognition. In AAAI Fall Symposium. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2023). Metacognitive threshold: a computational account. In Proceedings of ICCM 2023 - the 21st International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., West, R. & Mylopoulos, M. (2023). Metacognitive skill: how it is acquired. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2022). System-1 and System-2 realized within the common model of cognition. In AAAI Fall Symposium: Thinking Fast & Slow and Other Cognitive Theories in AI. pdf
Conway-Smith, B., & West, R. (2022). Clarifying System 1 & 2 through the common model of cognition. In Proceedings of ICCM 2022 - the 20th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. pdf
West, R., & Conway-Smith, B. (2019). A computational theory of feeling. In Proceedings of ICCM 2019 - the 17th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, 295-300. pdf
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Clarifying metacognition through computational modelling
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