Marc Green, Ph. D. Human Factors Science

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Experience

Scientific

M. A. (reaction time) and Ph. D. (vision) in experimental psychology;

Over 50 years basic and applied experience;

100+ publications, including three in Science and one in Nature, the two highest impact scientific journals;

Postdoctoral fellowships at Brown Univ. and Univ. Cal. Berkeley.

Research grants from National Eye Institute, National Science Foundation, National Science and Engineering Research Committee, US Air Force Armstrong Aerospace Medicine Laboratory and others;

Invited speaker at conferences in North America and Europe; and

Teaching experience includes vision & perception (undergraduate, graduate, optometry and medical students), experimental psychology (undergraduates), introductory psychology (undergraduates), psychology of motivation (undergraduates), statistics (undergraduates), applied behavior analysis (undergraduates), human factors (undergraduates), human factors in transportation (graduate students), artificial intelligence & cognitive science (undergraduates), and others.

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Expert

Investigative experience in approximately 1000 raccidents;

Accepted as an expert by courts in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Singapore;

Over 95% of cases in the US: Alabama, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Nevada, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and others;

Interviewed by media including CTV, CBC and Global TV networks, CBC radio, IEEE Radio, National Public Radio and for the book, The Third Team about NFL officials;

Case areas include personal injury, criminal, intellectual property, & consumer;

Retained in about 1000 cases; and

Cases split roughly split between defense and plaintiff.

Typical Cases

Transportation Collisions

Whether the reflective tape would make the truck more conspicuous;

Whether the ATV should have been carrying a passenger;

Whether the helicopter pilot should have see the approaching airplane;

Whether the driver should have seen and avoided the stopped vehicle;

Whether the driver should have seen the road construction worker;

Whether driver's reaction time was reasonable;

Whether a driver should have seen road signs and signals;

Whether objects on car dashboard impaired vision;

Whether driver's visual impairment contributed a fatal traffic collision;

Whether driver should have seen trailer blocking roadway at night; and

Whether a driver properly controlled steering around a curve.

Whether driver had sufficient sightline to avoid the collision;

Whether driver could correctly judge the time-to-arrival of the approaching train;

Whether driver could have seen rail-highway crossing warnings;

Whether Signal lights were obscured by sun reflection; and

Whether a boater should have seen the signal lights of an approaching vessel at night.

Pedestrian & Bicycle

Whether the pedestrian was visible at night;

Whether vision of older driver contributed pedestrian knock down;

Whether driver should have seen a pedestrian in time to avoid accident;

Whether a subway train driver could have stopped before hitting a pedestrian; and

Whether the locomotive headlights provided enough illumination to see the pedestrian.

Self-Driving Vehicles

How "automation complacency" led to a pedestrian death.

Warnings & Safety

Whether a drug label served as an adequate warning;

Whether the safety warning on a gun was adequate;

Whether beach signs were adequate warning;

Whether "no diving signs" would affect behavior;

Whether the dangers of asbestos were foreseeable;

Whether an auditory backup warning could have prevented a forklift accident;

Whether a warning could have prevented an industrial accident;

Whether the warning on lighter fluid was adequate; and

Whether a better helmet warning would have prevented a spinal injury.

Design Error

Whether lack of off-throttle steering caused a personal watercraft collision;

Whether a chemical sprayer was properly designed;

Whether the helmet obscured vision;

Whether the bolt securing the construction equipment was properly designed;

Whether a safety lock on a piece of equipment was properly designed;

Whether failure to test restraint of child car seats contributed to a death; and

Whether design of a fast fryer appliance contributed to a severe burn.

Police Shootings & Criminal

Whether visibility was sufficient for police officers discern the object in the suspect's hand.

Whether a vehicle heading toward an officer evoked innate defense reactions.

What factors caused a police officer to fire at a man at a psychiatric hospital.

How reaction time explained the timing and location of a police officer's shots;

Whether a state trooper intended to hit a suspect with his car;

Whether witness estimates of speed were reliable in a police chase;

Why a hunter's shots could not have been intended to hit a school bus;

Whether an eyewitness could accurately identify a suspect seen in dim light; and

Why a man congenital nystagmus flunked a sobriety test.

Intellectual Property

Whether the color of drug pills could be trademarked;

Whether colors used in plaintiff's tradedress were functional;

Whether packaging imitated tradedress of a competitor;

Whether consumers will use context to avoid trademark and name confusion; and

Whether consumers would confuse boots and running shoes with the same name.

Other

Trip & fall

Whether lighting conditions contributed to a fall down stairs;

Whether an elderly woman could have been expected to avoid a trip and fall;

Whether pattern on stairs contributed to a fall;

Whether lighting on a ship was sufficient to see a tripping hazard;
Whether light was adequate for an elderly man to a avoid tripping on a curb; and

What factors contributed to a fall down a steep slope.

Visual Evidence

Whether the photographs accurately represent what the driver saw.

Bison Stampede

Whether a man could have seen the bison that trampled him.

Misc

Whether the nurse made an error;

What are the bias factors in judging forensic evidence;

Whether consumers would falsely infer the safety of a vehicle from its commercials; and

Whether a bank's sign about extra fees was visisble and conspicuous.

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