Christopher Dancy
Department Address
140 Curtin Road
University Park, PA 16802-1808
Education History
Research Interests
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A Survey of OCR Evaluation Methods and Metrics and the Invisibility of Historical Documents, 2026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
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
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