Advances in Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance

Ronald L. Boring, Ph.D., is a principal human factors scientist at Idaho National Laboratory. Prior to joining Idaho National Laboratory, he worked as a human reliability scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was involved in projects for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the US Department of Energy. He has also worked as a usability engineer for the Microsoft Corporation and Expedia Corporation, and as a guest researcher in human-computer interaction at the National Research Council of Canada. He recently completed a one-year assignment as a visiting scientist at the Halden Reactor Project in Norway. Dr. Boring has a BA in Psychology and German from the University of Montana, an MA in Human Factors and Experimental Psychology from New Mexico State University, and a PhD in Cognitive Science from Carleton University. He was a Fulbright Academic Scholar to the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has published over 100 research articles in a wide variety of humanreliability, human factors, and human- computer interaction forums. He has served on the organizing committees for international conferences held by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, IEEE, and the Association for Computing Machinery.