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Citations
7981
World Ranking
5003
National Ranking
2363

Overview

J. Gregory Trafton is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, with a notable focus on Artificial Intelligence and Social Psychology. The subfields contributing most to their work include Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's contributions cover multiple main topics, notably Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), AI in Service Interactions, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation, Emotions and Moral Behavior, and Text Readability and Simplification.

J. Gregory Trafton has regularly published scientific work in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, JAMA Network Open, npj Digital Medicine, and Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. The distribution highlights a particular presence within ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Trafton include the following:

  • The Perception of Agency, 2024, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • The Power of Theory, 2021, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Collaborations have included several frequent co-authors with multiple joint publications. Notable collaborators are:

  • J. Malcolm McCurry
  • Sangeet Khemlani
  • Wallace Lawson
  • Kevin Zish
  • Chelsea R. Frazier

Their work engages with topics central to the interaction between humans and automated or robotic systems, as well as theoretical aspects of reasoning and knowledge in artificial intelligence. The scientist's research encompasses experimental approaches aligned with cognitive psychology and social psychology, reflecting interdisciplinary intersections between computer science and human behavioral sciences.

Best Publications

  • Memory for goals: an activation-based model

    Erik M. Altmann;J. Gregory Trafton

  • Preparing to resume an interrupted task: effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal

    J. Gregory Trafton;Erik M. Altmann;Derek P. Brock;Farilee E. Mintz

  • Effective Tutoring Techniques: A Comparison of Human Tutors and Intelligent Tutoring Systems

    Douglas C. Merrill;Brian J. Reiser;Michael Ranney;J. Gregory Trafton

  • The effect of interruption duration and demand on resuming suspended goals.

    Christopher A. Monk;J. Gregory Trafton;Deborah A. Boehm-Davis

  • Momentary interruptions can derail the train of thought.

    Erik M. Altmann;J. Gregory Trafton;David Z. Hambrick

  • Recovering from interruptions: implications for driver distraction research.

    Christopher A Monk;Deborah A Boehm-Davis;J Gregory Trafton

  • Use of Exemplars and Abstractions in Trait Judgments: A Model of Trait Knowledge About the Self and Others

    Stanley B. Klein;Judith Loftus;J. Gregory Trafton;Robert W. Fuhrman

  • Timecourse of recovery from task interruption: Data and a model

    Erik M. Altmann;J. Gregory Trafton

  • ACT-R/E: an embodied cognitive architecture for human-robot interaction

    J. Gregory Trafton;Laura M. Hiatt;Anthony M. Harrison;Franklin P. Tamborello

  • Turning pictures into numbers

    J. Gregory Trafton;Susan S. Kirschenbaum;Ted L. Tsui;Robert T. Miyamoto

  • Thinking graphically: Connecting vision and cognition during graph comprehension.

    Raj M. Ratwani;J. Gregory Trafton;Deborah A. Boehm-Davis

  • The Attentional Costs of Interrupting Task Performance at Various Stages

    Christopher A. Monk;Deborah A. Boehm-Davis;J. Gregory Trafton

  • Integrating cognition, perception and action through mental simulation in robots

    Nicholas L. Cassimatis;J. Gregory Trafton;Magdalena D. Bugajska;Alan C. Schultz

  • "What if…": The Use of Conceptual Simulations in Scientific Reasoning.

    Susan Bell Trickett;J. Gregory Trafton

  • Interactive Task Learning

    John E. Laird;Kevin Gluck;John Anderson;Kenneth D. Forbus

  • A memory for goals model of sequence errors

    J. Gregory Trafton;Erik M. Altmann;Raj M. Ratwani

  • The Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction Project

    Terrence Fong;Illah Nourbakhsh;Clayton Kunz;John Schreiner

  • Children and robots learning to play hide and seek

    J. Gregory Trafton;Alan C. Schultz;Dennis Perznowski;Magdalena D. Bugajska

  • Note-taking for self-explanation and problem solving

    J. Gregory Trafton;Susan B. Trickett

  • Huh, what was I Doing? How People Use Environmental Cues after an Interruption:

    J. Gregory Trafton;Erik M. Altmann;Derek P. Brock

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh
David Z. Hambrick
David Z. Hambrick Michigan State University
Reid Simmons
Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University
Priti Shah
Priti Shah University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stanley B. Klein
Stanley B. Klein University of California, Santa Barbara
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University
Niels Taatgen
Niels Taatgen University of Groningen
David L. Strayer
David L. Strayer University of Utah
Brian J. Reiser
Brian J. Reiser Northwestern University

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