Peter Cheng, Representational System Lab

Projects

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Current and Recent

Title
 Aims / Scope
 Collaborators
 Support
ROLLOUT — Innovative representations for scheduling for quality and training
  • Evaluate and refine principles of Representational Epistemology (REEP) for the design of interfaces.
  • Designing for non-desk top, non-office, non-tradition computer users.
  • Bakery production planning and scheduling.
  • Supporting problem solving and training for quality production
L Young (project manager), S Cauvain, Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association;
J Wilson, Uni. of Nottingham;
10 bakeries, supermarkets, equipment manufacturers.
 ESRC / EPSRC /
DTI-Link
Nature of drawing
(a) Chunking and expertise in visual cognition
(b) Drawing protocol analysis
  • Investigate processes underpinning nature of drawing
  • Develop drawing protocol analysis theory, methodology and tools
  • Study differences drawing behaviour of in expert, novice, autistic and savant drawers
 P Mitchell, D Ropar, Uni. of Nottingham
 (a) Bailey Thomas Fund
(b) EPSRC
Novel user interfaces for complex industrial applications
  • Design and evaluate novel graphical interfaces for process plant monitoring and control.
  • Industrial chemical processing.
 T Wilson, A Vais, Uni. of Nottingham
 Daphne Jackson Trust
Representational design principles to humanise automated scheduling systems
  • Evaluate and refine principles of Representational Epistemology (REEP) for the design of graphical interfaces for knowledge rich scheduling problems.
  • Humanising automated scheduling systems.
  • Novel graphically inspired scheduling heuristics
  • Examination timetabling; personnel rostering
 P Colwing, U. of Bradford, E Burke, U of Nottingham, B McCullum, Queen's U. Belfast; Optime Ltd.
 ESRC / EPSRC
Law Encoding Diagrams (LEDs): Re-codifying knowledge for conceptual learning
  • Recodification of knowledge as diagrammatic systems of representation (not mere visualisations).
  • Graphical computer-based tutoring
  • Science and mathematics curriculum re-design
  • School-based evaluations
  • Electricity; probablity theory; kinematics; dynamics


Past

Title
 Aims / Scope
 Collaborators
 Support
Diagrammatic reasoning and knowledge acquisition
  • Knowledge acquisition using diagrams
  • Ontology of Cartesian graphs
  • Principles, methodology and tools for DKA

 N Shadbolt
 EPSRC
Impact of innovation on training needs for statistical process control
  • Statistical process control
  • Simulation based computer learning environment
  • Training needs evaluation in commericial / industrial organisations
ESRC
Computational models of strategies of scientific discovery
  • Production system modelling
  • Diagrams in scientific discovery
  • Computation model of historical cases
  • Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Wren
 H A Simon
 SERC



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