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2008 ARC-CSI Crash Conference
June 2-5, 2008
Las Vegas, NV
Palace Station Hotel
Approved for 27 ACTAR CEU's
Judkins Law And it’s Applications To The Human Factors
Of Collision Avoidance And Witness Recall
Presented by: Marc Green, Ph.D.
Web Site: www.visualexpert.com
Abstract
In collision analysis, human factors issues typically include driver vision, perception, reaction time and sometimes witness reliability. Analyses are frequently naïve because they disembody the driver from his psychological context which includes not only the present (his current) situation but also the past (experience) and future (goals.) This occurs when the analyses rely on “cookbook science” rather than an application of the underlying scientific theory and data. This talk introduces basic scientific concepts in vision, perception, response and memory and explains how they produce more realistic analysis of collision causation.
BioDr. Marc Green has an experimental psychology Ph. D. and 36 years of experience in basic and applied research in perception, attention, reaction time, memory, human factors and related areas. He has also served as an expert in over 240 matters related to road accidents, warnings, falls, police shootings, product design and intellectual property as well as cases involving other human factors issues.
Dr. Green was a Principle of Visual Expert Human Factors Science and also serves as Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at West Virginia Medical School. He was previously a faculty member and research associate in psychology, physiological optics, and computer science at several universities including U.C. Berkeley, University of Toronto, and Carnegie-Mellon, and has been a guest lecturer in “Intellectual Property Law and Cognitive Science” at Osgoode Law School of York University. Dr. Green was also formerly at Exponent Failure Analysis.
His background includes 96 articles, abstracts and book chapters as well as numerous presentations at professional and scientific meetings. He has received grants and contracts from the National Eye Institute, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Engineering and Research Committee. He is principle author of Forensic Vision, which will be published by Lawyers & Judges this year.
He has been interviewed by The New Yorker, CTV National TV Network in Canada, the National Post of Canada (twice), Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio, IEEE radio, US National Public Radio and the Los Angeles Times. He has also served as a consultant to NBC Dateline.
