Christopher Dancy

CBDR Co-Director
Associate Professor

Department Address

E104 Paterno Library
140 Curtin Road
University Park, PA 16802-1808
Departmental Phone
814-865-1793 (department)
cld5070@psu.edu

Education History

Ph.D., AI & Cognitive Science - The Pennsylvania State University - 2014
B.S., Computer Science - The Pennsylvania State University - 2010

Research Interests

AI
Cognitive Science
Human-AI Interaction
Sociocultural Theory & Technology

Publications

A Survey of OCR Evaluation Methods and Metrics and the Invisibility of Historical Documents, 2026

Human-AI Use Patterns for Decision-Making in Disaster Scenarios: A Systematic Review, 2025

Computational Cognitive Modeling to understand the effects of Racializing AI on Human-AI cooperation with PigChase Task, 2025

Adapting A Vector-Symbolic Memory for Lisp ACT-R, 2025

Evaluating communication between Cognitive architectures and environments, 2025

How Carceral Algorithms Distort Black Narratives: The STRONG-R Case Study, 2025

Experiences with using an LLM-based Chatbot for a Multicultural Engineering Program Orientation (Experience), ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2025

Layout-Aware OCR for Black Digital Archives with Unsupervised Evaluation, 2025

Identifying Potential Inlets of Man in the Artificial Intelligence Development Process: Man and Antiblackness in AI Development, 2023

On integrating generative models into cognitive architectures for improved computational sociocultural representations, 2023

Using a Cognitive Architecture to consider antiblackness in design and development of AI systems, 2022

The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics, 2022

What Can Cognitive Science Do for People?, Cognitive Science, 2022

AI and Blackness: Toward Moving beyond Bias and Representation, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 2022

Computational Models for Social Good: Beyond Bias and Representation, 2022

A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture with Primal Affect and Physiology, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2021

Examining the Effects of Race on Human-AI Cooperation, 2021

Simulating Human-AI collaboration with ACT-R and project malmo, 2018

Towards a physio-cognitive model of slow-breathing, 2018

Towards a physio-cognitive model of the exploration exploitation trade-off, 2018

Playing SNES games with neuroevolution of augmenting topologies, 2018

Emotion in the Common Model of Cognition, Procedia Computer Science, 2018

A cognitive modeling approach - does tactical breathing in a psychomotor task influence skill development during adaptive instruction?, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017

Sex-Dependent Effects of Emotional Subliminal Visual Stimuli on a Decision-Making Task, 2017

A standard model of the mind needs a body, 2017

Integrative computational modeling of physiological and cognitive systems, and their interactions, 2016

Two ways to model the effects of sleep fatigue on cognition, 2015

BICA and Sex Differences: We Need to Understand Potential Sex Differences when Developing Computational Models of Human Behavior, Procedia Computer Science, 2015

ACT-RΦ: A cognitive architecture with physiology and affect, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2013

Towards adding a physiological substrate to ACT-R, 2012

Grants

EAGER: Investigating and Training Digital Archive Communities in the Uses of Generative AI and the National AI Research Resources, NSF, 9/2026 - 8/2028

CAREER: SocioCulturally Competent Agents to Study and Improve Human-AI interaction, NSF, 5/2022 - 4/2028

CRII: CHS: RUI: Computational models of humans for studying and improving Human-AI interaction, NSF, 1/2022 - 6/2023

Other Publications

Chapters

Identifying Potential Inlets of the Biocentric Man in the Artificial Intelligence Development Process, Inclusive Innovation in the Age of AI and Big Data, 2026

Identifying Potential Inlets of the Biocentric Man in the Artificial Intelligence Development Process, 2026

Cognitive architectures and psycho-physiological measures, 2017

Comment/Debates

How to use generative AI more responsibly, Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024

Editorials

Preface, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2019

Papers

Dynamic representation for evaluating the effect of moderators and stress on performance (DREEMS), 2018

A computational cognitive-affective model of decision-making, 2017