Robert R. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, IHMC, Pensacola FL.
rhoffman@ihmc.us
Hoffman is a recognized world leader in
cognitive systems engineering and HumanCentered Computing. He is a Fellow of the
Association for Psychological Science, Fellow of
the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society,
Senior Member of the American Association for
Artificial Intelligence, and a Fulbright Scholar. 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. He
began his career as a psycholinguist, and
founded the journal, Metaphor and Symbol. His
subsequent
research
leveraged
the
psycholinguistics background in the study of
methods for eliciting the knowledge of domain
experts. Hoffman has been recognized
internationally in psychology, remote sensing,
weather forecasting, and artificial intelligence,
for his research on human factors in remote
sensing, the psychology of expertise, the
methodology of cognitive task analysis, HCC
issues intelligent systems technology, and the
design of macrocognitive work systems.
Hoffman is a Co-Editor for the Department on
Human-Centered Computing in IEEE: Intelligent
Systems. He is Editor for the book Series,
"Expertise: Research and Applications." He is a
co-founder of two professional journals:
Metaphor and Symbol, and The Journal of
Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. His
current research focuses on the psychology of
intelligence analysis, methodological issues in
the analysis of complex systems, and
performance measurement for macrocognitive
work systems. In the real world, he has worked
as a Ranger/Naturalist in the Green Mountains
of Vermont and is an accomplished blues
drummer. A full vita and all of his publications
are available for download at:
[www.ihmc.us/users/rhoffman/main].
Recent Books
Hoffman, R.R., Hancock, P.A., Scerbo, M.,
Parasuraman, R., and Szalma, J. (2014). Cambridge
handbook of applied perception research. Cambridge
U. Press.
Hoffman, R.R., Ward, P., DiBello, L., Feltovich, P.J.,
Fiore, S.M., and Andrews, D. (2013). 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., & Hoffman, R.R. (2007). Working
minds: A practitioner's guide to cognitive task analysis.
Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Moon, B., Hoffman. R.R., Cañas, A.J., & Novak, J.D. (Eds.)
(2011). Applied Concept Mapping: Capturing, Analyzing
and Organizing Knowledge. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor &
Francis.
Ericsson, K.A., Charness, N., Feltovich, P.J. & Hoffman,
R.R. (2006). Cambridge Handbook of expertise and
expert performance. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Moore, D.T. & Hoffman, R.R. (2011). Sensemaking: A
transformative paradigm. American Intelligence
Journal, 29, 26-36.
Hoffman,
R.R.
and
Woods,
D.D.
(2011,
November/December). Beyond Simon’s slice: Five
fundamental tradeoffs that bound the performance
of macrocognitive work systems. IEEE: Intelligent
Systems, pp. 67-71.
Hoffman, R.R., Henderson, S., Moon, B., Moore, D.T.,
and Litman, J.A. (2011). Reasoning difficulty in
analytical activity. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomic
Science, 12, 225–240.
Hoffman, R.R., Marx, M., Amin, R., & McDermott, P.
(2010). Measurement for evaluating the learnability
and resilience of methods of cognitive work.
Theoretical Issues in Ergonomic Science. DOI:
10.1080/14639220903386757
Hoffman, R.R., Lee, J.D., Woods, D.D., Shadbolt, N.,
Miller, J. & Bradshaw, J.M. (2009, November/
December). The dynamics of trust in cyberdomains.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 5-11.
Klein, G., Moon, B., & Hoffman, R.R. (2006, July/August).
Making sense of sensemaking. IEEE Intelligent Systems,
pp. 22-26.