Associate Editors
Dr. Rudolph Darken , is Cognitive Technology’s Associate
Editor for Modeling and Simulation research. He earned his D.Sc.
in Computer Science from The George Washington University and is currently Professor
of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey , California .
He also serves as Director of Research for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security
(CHDS). He served as the Director of the Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation
(MOVES) Institute from 2004 thru 2008. His research has been focused on spatial
cognition and more recently, on game development and agile software development
techniques. He has worked extensively in how people learn and develop expertise
and how computing media can best be used for learning and skill development. Recent
research has been in the use of open source and standards in agile software development
frameworks aimed at drastically reducing the cost of building games and simulations
while enhancing their flexibility and expressiveness. He is an Associate Editor
of PRESENCE Journal, the MIT Press journal of teleoperators and virtual environments.
Dr. Florian Jentsch , is Cognitive Technology’s
Associate Editor for Human Factors research. He holds a Ph.D. in
Human Factors Psychology from the University of Central Florida , and master's degrees
in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle University and aeronautical engineering
from the Technical University Berlin, Germany. He is an Associate Professor at the
University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, with joint appointments in the Department
of Psychology and at the Institute for Simulation & Training. He is also the
Director of the Team Performance Laboratory at UCF. Dr. Jentsch’s research
interests are in team performance and training, pilot training and performance,
human-robot interaction, and simulation methodology. Dr. Jentsch has led the research
and development of software products for pilot training and assessment, including
software for the rapid generation of flight simulation scenarios and for electronic
card sorting and concept mapping. He is also a human factors advisor for the redesign
of the U.S. Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) system. Dr. Jentsch is currently also an associate
editor for the journal 'Human Factors' and a consulting editor for the 'International
Journal of Applied Aviation Studies.'
Dr. Jean MacMillan , is Cognitive Technology’s
Associate Editor for Cognitive Systems Engineering research. She
holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University and is currently Chief
Scientist with Aptima Incorporated. She is a leading expert in understanding, maximizing,
and assessing human performance in complex sociotechnical systems. Her 20-year career
has spanned a broad range of accomplishments in simulation-based training, human-machine
interaction, and user-centered system design. Dr. MacMillan’s current research
focuses on methods to increase the effectiveness of simulation-based training by
linking training objectives to scenario design elements and performance measures.
She recently led projects to develop reliable and valid performance measures for
teams of pilots training in a distributed simulation facility and to design synthetic
entities that function as team members for simulation-based training of teamwork
skills. Prior to joining Aptima in 1997, Dr. MacMillan was a Senior Scientist at
BBN Technologies and a Senior Cognitive Systems Engineer at Alphatech (now BAE Systems).
Dr. MacMillan has served on the Editorial Boards of the Human Factors journal and
the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making journal. She is a frequent contributor
and strategic advisor to workshops and expert panels on human engineering issues
for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the military services,
and is currently co-chairing the National Research Council study “Organizational
Models: From Individuals to Societies.”
Dr. Rick Parente' , is Cognitive Technology’s Associate
Editor for Cognitive Rehabilitation research. He holds a Ph.D.
in Psychology from the University of New Mexico and post-doctoral training in Physiology.
He is Professor of Psychology at Towson University in Maryland and adjunct professor
of Physiology at the University of Maryland Dental School and an adjunct Associate
Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Virginia.
His research and theory interests include particular emphasis on group cognitive
skills training for brain injured clients. He has published numerous books and articles
on cognitive rehabilitation including over 50 journal articles on the topic of brain
injury rehabilitation. Dr. Parente' has practiced cognitive rehabilitation therapy
for over 20 years and is an active advisory board member of the Society for Cognitive
Rehabilitation. Since 1986, he has served as Neuropsychological Consultant at the
Maryland Rehabilitation Center and he is Director for Memory Rehabilitation at the
Practical Memory Institute.
Dr. Greg Trafton , is Cognitive Technology’s Associate
Editor for Cognitive Models and Agent Technologies research. He
earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University and is currently an affiliate
professor with George Mason University and Cognitive Scientist with the Naval Research
Laboratory. He his areas of research include the cognition of complex visualizations,
the disruptive effects of interruptions (and how to ameliorate them), and cognitive
robotics. For all projects, he is interested in using different techniques (standard
psychological experiments, protocol analysis, eye-tracking, computational cognitive
modeling) to understand the processes that people use to solve complex, real-world
problems. His over-arching goal is to build integrative theories that connect real-world
problems (e.g., how a meteorologist makes a forecast; how to resume after an interruption;
how to build physical robots that think and reason) with basic cognitive theory
to not only understand the cognitive processes used in complex domains, but also
to build better tools that improve performance. Recently, he has been working on
this goal by working within different disciplines (meteorology, scientific visualization,
etc.) and connecting the high-level thinking, reasoning, and problem solving skills
of skilled performers with their low-level perceptual, memory, and attentional capabilities.
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