Ronald Boring

Ronald L. Boring, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Scientist and Department Manager at Idaho National Laboratory, specializing in human factors, human-computer interaction, and human performance. He previously worked as a human reliability researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, guest researcher at Halden Reactor Project, usability engineer for Microsoft Corporation and Expedia Corporation, and as a guest researcher in human-computer interaction at the National Research Council of Canada. Dr. Boring has a BA in Psychology and German from the University of Montana, an MA in Human Factors and Experimental Psychology from New Mexico State University, and a PhD in Cognitive Science from Carleton University. He was a Fulbright Academic Scholar to the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has published over 200 research articles in a wide variety of human reliability, human factors, and human-computer interaction forums. He has served on the organizing committees for international conferences held by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics. IEEE, and the Association for Computing Machinery.