Last Update: 07.01.08

Dr. Philip J. Smith is Executive Director of the Institute for Ergonomics and a Professor with the Industrial and Systems Engineering program, Biomedical Engineering, and the Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design at The Ohio State University.

Phil teaches courses in areas of cognitive systems engineering, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and the design of cooperative problem-solving systems, intelligent information retrieval systems, and intelligent tutoring systems. His research focuses on issues concerned with design of cooperative problem- solving systems to support people in performing complex tasks such as information retrieval, planning, database exploration, teaching and diagnosis, using fields such as aviation, medicine, library systems and education as testbeds.