Senior Research Scientist

Peter is a Senior Research Scientist at IHMC who joined IHMC in 2017. Previously he was a Research Fellow in the Interactive Intelligence Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he studied human information interaction. Before joining PARC, he was a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley.

His research combines cognitive science, artificial intelligence (AI), and human-computer interaction, with applications in human-AI teaming, explainable AI (XAI), mobile health, sensemaking, information foraging, and measuring and enhancing cognitive capabilities.

Peter received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985.  He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and anthropology from Trent University. He has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Academy, and the Florida Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Peter is the author of “Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information.”  For publications please visit Peter’s personal website.