Guy A. Boy

Guy Boy is University Professor and Director of the Human-Centered Design Institute and Ph.D. Program at the Florida Institute of Technology, Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Design at NASA Kennedy Space Center and a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). He is the Chair of the 2012 ISU (International Space University) SSP (Space Studies Program) FIT/NASA-KSC organizing committee. He was the President and Chief Scientist of the European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO). He co-founded EURISCO in 1992, and managed it since its creation to 2008. Engineer and psychologist, he received his Doctorate in 1980 from the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace” (ISAE-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. Boy actively participated to the introduction of cognitive engineering in France and its development worldwide. He coordinated the French handbook of cognitive engineering, and the Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction (Ashgate, UK) in 2011. He was the co-founder in 2004 of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique a cognitive engineering program at the University of Bordeaux (ENSC). He is the Vice-President of ENSC, where he is Visiting Professor. Researcher at ONERA (The French Aerospace Lab) from 1977 to 1988, he was seconded at NASA-Ames Research Center from 1984 to 1986 in the Aerospace Human Factors Research Division. In 1987, he co-founded a start-up, Dialexis, working on intelligent assistant systems for space applications in France, he was the Chair of Board until 1993. In 1991, Boy was the recipient of the French Institute of Management (IFG) Start-Up Award for the development of Dialexis. He then joined NASA as the Leader of the Advanced Interaction Media Group from 1989 to 1991. His research is focused on safety-critical systems, risk management, human-centered design and automation, cognitive engineering and ergonomics, electronic documentation, knowledge acquisition and machine learning, multi-agent 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). He is the author of five major books and more than 200 scientific and technical papers. Between 1994 and 2008, he was an external expert in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program of the European Commission. He was 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, he was the Executive Vice-Chair ACM-SIGCHI (Association for Computing Machinery-Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction). From 2002 to 2005, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the French National Center for Technological Research in Aerospace (CNRT-AE). In 2006, he was elected Fellow of the Air and Space Academy. He is the Chair of the Technical Committee on Aerospace Human Factors and Ergonomics (TCASHFE) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). He was the coordinator of the RoHMI (Robust Human-Machine Interaction) Network of Excellence (DG XII, European Commission) from 1994 to 1996. He was the scientific coordinator of WISE (Web-enabled Information System for Engineering) project (IST) from 2001 to 2004. He was the coordinator of the PAUSA (Authority distribution in air traffic management) national project (French Government, Ministry of Transportation) from 2006 to 2008 (9 major organizations involved and 26 scientists and engineers).