Paul Green

Dr. Paul A. Green is a research professor in UMTRI's Driver Interface Group and an adjunct associate professor in the University of Michigan (U-M) Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE). He is also the past president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Green teaches automotive human factors and human-computer interaction classes. He has also been coleader of U-M's Human Factors Engineering Short Course (with Chris Wickens of Alion Science and Technology) for twenty-five years.

Dr. Green leads a research team that focuses on driver distraction, driver workload and workload managers, 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 for more than a 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, the School of Art (Industrial Design), and the School of Information. 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.