The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction (ePub)

Guy A. Boy is University Professor and Director of the Human-Centered Design Institute (HCDi) at the Florida Institute of Technology, Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Design at NASA Kennedy Space Center. Until 2008 he was President of EURISCO International (European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering) and had managed the organization since its creation in 1992. An engineer and psychologist, he received his Doctorate in 1980 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (SUPAERO: French Aerospace Institute of Technology), his Professorship Habilitation (HDR) from Pierre and Marie Curie's University (Paris VI), and his Full Professorship Qualifications in Computer Science and Psychology. He introduced and taught cognitive engineering at SUPAERO. A researcher at l'ONERA (The French Aerospace Lab) from 1977 to 1988, Boy was seconded at NASA-Ames Research Center from 1984 to 1986 in the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division. He then joined NASA as the Leader of the Advanced Interaction Media Group from 1989 to 1991. His research focused on safety-critical systems, human-centered design and automation, cognitive engineering and ergonomics, electronic documentation and aerospace systems. He developed various methods and techniques that include the Group Elicitation Method (GEM), Cognitive Function Analysis (CFA), and the Active Design Documents (ADDs). Guy Boy is the author of three major books and more than 200 scientific and technical papers. He is an expert in Information Society and Technology for the European Commission and an expert for the European Space Agency (ESA) for the definition of the overall human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence research program in 1991. He was a legal expert for aircraft accident investigations from 1992 to 1994. From 1995 to 1999, Boy was the Executive Vice-Chair ACM-SIGCHI (Association for

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