Collin Green, Ph.D.

Research Engineer -- NASA

Academic Background

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, 2004
M.A. in Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, 2001
B.S. in Psychology (minor in Mathematics), University of Oregon, 1999

Research and Applied Work

Collin Green is a Research Engineer in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at NASA Ames Research Center. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Oregon (1999). He earned his M.A. (2001) in Psychology and Ph.D. (2004) in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, he came to NASA Ames to research human memory and performance. Currently, his primary research effort focuses on the development and application of the Constraint-based Optimal Reasoning Engine (CORE): a platform for modeling expert human performance being developed collaboratively by the HCI Group, the University of Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of Manchester (UK). Dr. Green also conducts behavioral experiments exploring human multi-tasking performance and develops computational models of human memory. Outside these research programs, he contributes to software design and requirements development efforts in the HCI Group.

Recent Papers

Green, C., Johnston, J.C., & Ruthruff, E. (2007). Recognition of pictures may not require central attentional resources. In: D. McNamara & G. Trafton (Eds.): Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 317-322). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Knight, A., Pyrzak, G., & Green, C. (2007). When two methods are better than one: Combining user study with cognitive modeling. In M.B. Rosson and D.J. Gilmore (Eds.): Extended Abstracts of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2007, (pp. 1783-1788). San Jose, CA: ACM.

Green, C., & Hummel, J.E. (2006). Familiar interacting object pairs are perceptually grouped. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32(5), 1107-1119.

Green, C., & Kittur, A. (2006). Retrieval-induced forgetting in a multiple-trace memory model. In: R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.): Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1388-1393). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.