Paul Green

Dr. Paul A. Green is a research professor in UMTRI's Human Factors Division and an adjunct associate professor in the University of Michigan (U-M) Departments of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE). He is also the current president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Green teaches an ergonomics laboratory and human-computer interaction class. He has also been co-leader of U-M's Human Factors Engineering Short Course (with Dick Pew of BBN Technologies and Chris Wickens of the University of Illinois) for 25 years.

Dr. Green leads a research team that focuses on driver workload and workload managers (currently, through the SAVE-IT program), navigation system design, and motor vehicle controls and displays. The research makes extensive use of instrumented cars and UMTRI's driving simulator. Dr. Green has led the development and managed all three generations of the simulator over the last dozen years.

Dr. Green's research has been published in approximately 200 journal articles, proceedings papers, and technical reports. He was the lead author of several landmark publications: the first set of U.S. DOT telematics guidelines and SAE recommended practices concerning navigation system design (SAE J2364, the 15-second rule) and design compliance calculations (SAE J2365).

Before joining UMTRI, Dr. Green was an engineering staff member at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and a safety and health engineer for Scovill. At U-M, he has held appointments in the Department of Psychology and the School of Art (Industrial Design). He has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and three degrees from U-M: an M.S.E. in IOE, an M.A. in psychology, and a joint Ph.D. in IOE and psychology.