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Dr. Robert Hoffman

Biography

Robert R. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a recognized world leader in cognitive systems engineering and Human-Centered Computing. He is a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics and Engineers, Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and a Fulbright Scholar. He has been Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, Principal Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Principal Author, or Principle Subcontractor on over 60 grants and contracts totaling over $16M. He has led efforts including large, multi-partner, multi-year grant collaborations, contracted alliances of university and private sector partners, and multi-university research initiatives. His Ph.D. is in experimental psychology from the University of Cincinnati, where he received McMicken Scholar, Psi Chi, and Delta Tau Kappa Honors. Following a Postdoctoral Associateship at the Center for Research on Human Learning at the University of Minnesota, he joined the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. Hoffman has been recognized internationally in cognitive systems engineering, applied psychology, artificial intelligence, and human factors engineering—for his research on the methodology of cognitive task analysis and human-centering issues for human-systems integration systems technology. He has co-authored and co-edited 18 scholarly books and is co-author on over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals. For twenty years, he served as Co-Editor for the Department on Human-Centered Computing in IEEE: Intelligent Systems. In this Department, Hoffman published 70 essays on human-centered computing. He was a co-founder of The Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. His current research focuses on methodological and measurement issues in the analysis of complex systems, and performance measurement for complex work systems.

Publications

Most Recent Books

White, R.A.,  Çoltekin, A., and Hoffman, R.R. (Eds.) (2018). Remote sensing and cognition: Human factors in image interpretation. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Hoffman, R.R., et al.  (2017). Minding the weather: How expert forecasters think.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hoffman, R.R. and Smith, P. (2017). Cognitive Systems Engineering: The Future for a Changing World. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis.

Hoffman, R.R., et al. (2014). Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis/CRC Press.

Hoffman, R.R. (Au., Ed.) (2012). Collected Essays on Human-Centered Computing, 2001-2011. New York: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Hoffman, R.R. and Militello, L.G. (2008). Perspectives on Cognitive Task Analysis: Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis.

Crandall, B., Klein, G., and Hoffman R.R. (2006). Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Selected Recent Publications

Hoffman, R.R. and Hancock, P.A. (2017). Measuring resilience.  Human Factors, 59, 564-581.

McBride, N., and Hoffman, R.R. (2016, September/October). Bridging the ethical gap: From human principles to robot instructions. IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 76-82.

Bunch, L., Bradshaw, J.M., Hoffman, R.R., and Johnson, M. (May/June 2015) Principles for human-centered interaction design, Part 2: Can humans and machines think together? IEEE: Intelligent Systems, pp. 68-75.

Bradshaw, J.M., Hoffman, R.R., Johnson, M., and Woods, D.D. (2013, May/June). The seven deadly myths of  “autonomous systems.” IEEE: Intelligent Systems, pp. 54-61.