Thomas R. G. Green


Thomas R. G. Green is a British cognitive scientist, and Visiting Professor at the University of York, known for his contribution to cognitive modelling and the development of the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations.
In the 1980s Green was working for MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, and became reader in computing at the Open University. In 2015 he is Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of York, and is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Leeds.
His research interests reaches from "Programming language design and cognitive psychology", "Interaction as an action language", and "Cognitive dimensions of notations and devices" to "Models of information artifacts" and "Virtual devices as research tools."

Selected publications

Articles, a selection:
  • Payne, Stephen J., and Thomas RG Green. "." Human-computer interaction 2.2 : 93-133.
  • Green, Thomas RG. "." in: A. Sutcliffe and Macaulay,, People and Computers V : 443–460.
  • Green, Thomas RG, Marian Petre, and R. K. E. Bellamy. "Comprehensibility of visual and textual programs: A test of superlativism against the’match-mismatch’conjecture." ESP 91.743 : 121–146.
  • Green, Thomas RG, and Marian Petre. "." Human-Computer Interaction: Tasks and Organisation, Proceedings of ECCE-6. GC van der Veer, MJ Tauber, S. Bagnarola and M. Antavolits. Rome, CUD. 1992.
  • Green, Thomas R. G., and Marian Petre. "." Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 7.2 : 131–174.