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title: "A Computational Approach to the Study of Human Skill Acquisition"
authors:
  - "Jan J. Elshout"
  - "Bob J. Wielinga"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/54"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0054.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# A Computational Approach to the Study of Human Skill Acquisition

Jan J. Elshout, Bob J. Wielinga

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

A general model for "learning by doing" is presented which accounts for a number of phenomena observed in protocols of human subjects solving a series of similar problems. The model is based on the conjecture that skill acquisition is a process of progressive development of problem directed knowledge structures which are to a large extent domain specific. A program is described for encoding protocols of human subjects in terms of the modeL