ABOUT ME
"Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité,"
i.e., "Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Aeronautics & Astronautics, Human Systems Integration (HSI), Computer and Cognitive Sciences, Ski...
Teaching & Research
Human-Centered Design & Automation, Human Systems Integration, Increasingly Autonomous Systems, Cognitive Engineering, Life-Critical Systems, Human-AI Teaming, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors & Ergonomics, Complexity Science, Organization Design & Management, Modeling & Simulation, Performance Support...
Employment
ONERA, NASA, EURISCO (Airbus, Thales), FIT, ISAE-SUPAERO, IHMC, CentraleSupélec (Paris Saclay University), ESTIA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Sorbonne University, ENAC, ENSC, INSA, ENSEIHT, ...
My Philosophical Objectives
Understanding the emergence of new practices in the use of current and new technologies is one of my primary interests. There are artifacts that enable to extend human capabilities such as sliding and skiing, and other that enable us to perform activities such as flying that are not part of our initial human capabilities. My personal research agenda is directed by the search of artifacts properties toward the development of a science of artifacts. Artifacts are direct concrete representations of human intelligence. Artifacts involve the use of human cognitive functions. Software artifacts currently evolve towards software agents that also have cognitive functions.
Consequently, my research agenda focuses on the discovery and rationalization of cognitive functions that support communication, cooperation, coordination, delegation and other interaction processes in the context of sociotechnical systems. I believe that taking human factors into account during the design and development of artifacts is seldom possible when the organization is not prepared to accept humanization ot technology. Consequently, reserach on social and organizational aspects is crucial. This is why I am developing the Orchestra model, an alternative to the traditional Army model.
Cognitive engineering denotes an integrated approach and a consistent set of methods and techniques used in the analysis, design and evaluation of contemporary human-machine systems, especially now when artificial intelligence becomes a partner. Modern society is based on sociotechnical constructs that should be clearly undersatood to improve modeling, design, development and management of life-critical systems. A new discipline is developing: Human Systems Integration.
Education
University Professor Qualification in Computer Science & Psychology, HDR (Pierre & Maris Curie Sorbonne University, Paris, France), Ph.D. in Automation and Systems Design (ISAE-SUPAERO, France), M.S. Psychology (Jean Jaures University, Toulouse, France), M.S. Advanced Automation Engineering Degree (ISAE-SUPAERO, France),
TALKS & SEMINARS
• AI & Fake News, Infox sur Seine, Paris, France, 22-23 Mar 2023
• Uncertainty Summer School, Ascona, Swtzerland, 18-23 Jun 2023
• AI4SE & SE4AI, SERC Workshop, Washington, D.C., USA, 27-28 Sep 2023
• Human-AI Teaming Spring School, Biarritz, France, 27-31 May 2024
• INCOSE/IEA HSI Int. Conference, Jeju, Korea, 27-29 Aug 2024
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GET IN TOUCH
g.boy@estia.fr
guy-andre.boy@centralesupelec.fr
+33-6-73 11 79 38
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Consulting
Air France, Continental, DFS, DGAC, DSNA, EDF, ESA, Eurocontrol, European Union SESAR Program, FAA, INRIA, LuftHansa, Nokia, RoundFeather, SpaceX.
Professional Recognitions and Services
ACM-SIGCHI (Executive Vice-Chair, 1995-1999), Air & Space Academy (Fellow, 2006-), IEA Aerospace Technical Committee (Chair, 2008-Present), International Academy of Astronautics (Fellow, 2022-), ACM (Senior Member, 2009-), INCOSE (Fellow, 2021-) & HSI Working Group (Chair, 2016-Present)
One of the highlights of my professional life was the presentation of the ACM-SIGCHI award to Douglas Engelbart, in Los Angeles, at the CHI'98 conference.
It was a moving event, in front of this immense person who invented the mouse, made hypertext work and integrated it into computer networks to end up with the Internet. Doug was a friend... we met every Wednesday for lunch in Mountain View for a long time in the late 1980s, when I was at NASA Ames.
In this photo, you can't see the audience facing us ~ 2,000 people in profound silence! After the ceremony, Doug said to me in the hallway: "You didn't have to say all that, I almost cried!