Involved in multiple research projects, such as: How to (re)represent it? (2018-2019), funded by the EPSRC Human-Like Computing research programme; Cognitive Science of tactile graphics (2016-2020), funded by the RM Phillips Endowment; Cyber-security visualization: collaborative graphical tools for security policies (2020-2024), funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP).
Research Experience
Member of the Creative Technology Research Group; research areas include: Knowledge visualizations/Representational Epistemology, Diagrammatic notional systems for problem solving and learning (e.g., logic, mathematics, physics, dance), Graphical user-interfaces (e.g., planning/scheduling, cyber-security user access control), Diagrammatic intelligent tutoring systems, Automatic representation selection for human-like AI system, Micro behaviour analysis of chunk processing, Competence measurement (e.g., mathematics, programming, natural language), User-authentication, Cognition of writing and drawing, Individual differences and the control of behaviour, Cognitive science of tactile interaction and graphics, Tactile graphics for people with visual impairment, Reading diagrams and notations by touch, Graphic design of tactile material.
Background
Professor of Cognitive Science / RepSys Lab Director. Research interests include knowledge visualizations, representational systems, graphical user interfaces, etc.