Michelson has supported and led numerous notable programs within the Georgia Tech Research Institute leveraging his knowledge of soldier loadout and autonomous unmanned systems. Notably, he has designed graphical user interfaces, developed human-centered system requirements, led programs to quantify human performance, assessed anthropometric accommodations, and supported system test and evaluation for DoD stakeholders spanning the United States Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps. A frequent speaker across the Georgia Institute of Technology, international conferences, and government entities such as DARPA, Michelson is known for developing novel concepts for the command and control of unmanned systems, utilizing Model Based Systems Engineering to express man-machine teaming relationships, graphical user interface design for DoD systems, military mission planning concepts, and basic research on the touch zone sizes for military touchscreens in moving environments. Michelson has supported and organized a number of military working groups spanning topics such as electronic warfare, unmanned systems, and military end user engagement. Within the Human Factors Engineering context, Michelson is an advocate for “Mission-Driven Robotics”.
