Kenneth R. Boff is Principal Scientist with the Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as Senior Technical Advisor to the Asian Office for Aerospace Research and Development in Tokyo, Japan. In 2007, he retired after a decade as the US Air Force Research Laboratory Chief Scientist for Human Effectiveness. In this position, he was responsible for the technical direction of a multi-disciplinary R&D portfolio encompassing individual and organizational behavior, cultural cognition, training, protection and the bio and human-engineering of complex systems. Boff has authored numerous technical papers, patents, and books including “Organizational Simulation” (2005), "System Design" (1987), the two-volume "Handbook of Perception and Human Performance" (1986), and four-volume "Engineering Data Compendium” (1988). Boff actively consults and provides technical liaison with government agencies, international working groups, universities and professional societies and is a Fellow of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society and the International Ergonomics Association.

Boff, K.R. (2006). Revolutions and shifting paradigms in human factors and ergonomics. Applied Ergonomics. 37, 391-399.

Rouse, W.B., & Boff, K.R. (2006). Value-Centered R&D. In Rouse W,B. (Ed). Enterprise transformation: Understanding and enabling fundamental change. Wiley, New York.

Rouse, W.B., & Boff, K.R. (2006). Cost-benefit analysis of human systems investments. In G. Salvendy, (Ed.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics. (Third edition) New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Rouse, W.B., & Boff, K.R. (Eds.).(2005). Organizational simulation: From modeling and simulation to games and entertainment. New York: John Wiley.