An Information Search Model Integrating Visual, Semantic and Memory Processes

This study aims at presenting a computational model of visual search including a visual, a semantic and a memory process in order to simulate human behavior during information seeking. We implemented the memory process, which is the most im-portant part of the model based on the Variable Memory Model (Arani, Karwan, & G., 1984; Horowitz, 2006). To compare model and humans, we designed two experiments where par-ticipants were asked to find the word among forty distributed on the display, which best answers a question. The results showed good fits on different features extracted between em-pirical and simulated scanpaths