Peter Foltz, Ph.D.
Peter.Foltz at colorado.edu
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Area of study: Cognitive
and
Engineering Psychology
Emphasis: Text comprehension, Cognitive Modeling, Team Cognition, Computational Models of Language, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Education:
- B.A. Psychology, 1985, Lehigh University
- M.A. Cognitive Psychology, 1988, University of Colorado,
Boulder
- Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, 1993, University of Colorado,
Boulder
- Work and Teaching History:
- Adjunct Professor, NMSU, 2006-Present
- Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado, 2006-Present
- VP for Research and Development, Pearson Knowledge Technologies, 2004-Present
- Associate Professor, NMSU, 2000-2006
- Chief Scientist, Founder, Knowledge Analysis Technologies, 1998-2004
- Assistant Professor, NMSU, 1995-2000
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Learning Research and Development
Center, University of Pittsburgh,
1993-95
- Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research,
Cognitive Science Research group,
1989-90
- Research Interests & Background:
- Team Cognition and Assessment
- Text comprehension, Hypertext
- Information retrieval and information filtering
- Cognitive modeling, Memory and text comprehension
- Theory and applications of using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)
- Natural Language Processing
- Research performed in the CHIPS & SALSA lab (Computer Human
Information Systems and Studies Assessing Latent Semantic
Analysis) and the T3C Lab (Team Cognition, Culture and Communication):
Research has been funded by grants from the NSF, Air Force
Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
- Automatic grading of essay exams
(For information on its applications and research click here
information, click here.)
- Teaching reading, writing and comprehension skills (For a demo and links to WriteToLearn, click here)
- Automated Analyses of Team Communication
- Measuring Coherence in Schizophrenic Discourse
Listing of Peter's publications
Click here for reprints of old articles
(note: this hasn't been updated in a while) Write to me
if you want more recent articles
- Current, Past and Future Courses:
- Memory Psy 383
- Seminar in Cognitive Science
- Human-Computer Interaction Psy 430/530
- Language Processing PSY 361/561
- Introduction to Psychology Psy 201
- Introduction to Psycholinguistics Psy/Ling 301
- The Psychology of Information Access
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