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Dr. Peter Adrian Hancock
Peter Hancock is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the
Department of Psychology, the Institute for Simulation and Training, and
at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University
of Central Florida.
In his previous appointment, he founded and was the
Director of the Human Factors Research Laboratory at the University of
Minnesota. At Minnesota he held appointments as Full Professor in the
Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Psychology, and Kinesiology as well as at the Cognitive
Science Center and the Center on Aging Research. He currently holds a
courtesy appointment as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and as an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist
at the Transportation Institute of the University of Michigan.
Professor Hancock is the author of over four hundred
refereed scientific articles and publications as well as editing numerous
books including: Human Performance and Ergonomics in the
Handbook of Perception and Cognition series, published by Academic
Press in 1999 and Stress, Workload, and Fatigue, published in 2001
by Lawrence Erlbaum. He is the author of the 1997 book, Essays on the
Future of Human-Machine Systems. He has been continuously funded by
extramural sources for every year of his professional career, including
support from NASA, NIH, NIA, FAA, FHWA, the US Navy and the US Army as
well as numerous State and Industrial agencies.
He is the Principal Investigator on the recently awarded
Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative, in which he will
oversee $5 Million of funded research on stress, workload, and
performance.
In 1999 he was the Arnold Small Lecturer of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society and in 2000 he was awarded the Sir Frederic
Bartlett Medal of the Ergonomics Society of Great Britain for lifetime
achievement.
He was the Keynote Speaker for the International
Ergonomics Association and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society at the
2000 combined meeting in San Diego. In 2001 he won the Franklin V. Taylor
Award of the American Psychological Association as well as the Liberty
Mutual Prize for Occupational Safety and Ergonomics from the International
Ergonomics Association.
In association with his colleagues Raja Parasuraman and
Anthony Masalonis, he was the winner of the Jerome Hirsch Ely Award of the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for 2001, the same year in which he
was elected a Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association.
He was awarded a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree from
Loughborough University in December, 2001. In 2002, he was awarded the
Jastrzebowski Medal of the Polish Ergonomics Society for contributions to
world ergonomics and in the same year was named a Fellow of the Ergonomics
Society of Great Britain. He has been elected to a three-year term as a
Member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors and
which will run concurrently with his membership of the Executive Council
of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society.
In 2003 he won the Liberty Mutual Medal of the
International Ergonomics Association, a world-wide competition for
innovative advances in occupational safety and ergonomics. His current
experimental work concerns the evaluation of behavioral response to
high-stress conditions. His theoretical works concerns human relations
with technology and the possible futures of this symbiosis. He is a Fellow
of and past President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He
collects and studies antique maps and is a committed Ricardian. |
