Richard Cox

Richard Cox Reader in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Department of Informatics School of Science and Technology University of Sussex Member of the Representation and Cognition group Research Interests Human reasoning/problem solving (esp. with external representations) Clinical reasoning (eg. diagnostic reasoning) A.I. in education/interactive learning environments Individual differences Research activity/projects Interactive learning environments PATSy is a web-based multimedia database shell that makes 'virtual patients' available to trainees, educators, clinicians and researchers in various clinical professions and cognate academic disciplines. It is used by around 30 UK university departments. The case content represented includes developmental reading disorders, neuropsychology, neurology/medical rehabilitation and speech and language pathologies. A PATSy-related project on Vicarious Learning began in June 2004: Vicarious Learning and Case-Based Teaching of Clinical Reasoning Skills, funded under Phase III of the ESRC's TLRP programme. Here is a press release. The project's website can be found at www.vicarious.ac.uk I am as a member of the ESRC TLRP-Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Programme's Advisory Group I am also an international affiliate of the Openproof logic education software project at Stanford. One of our activities is the educational data mining of an extremely large dataset (1.8 million student submissions to an online grading system). We have published papers at CogSci08 and Diagrams08 (see Publications). In connection with this work I was recently awarded a joint US Social Science Research Council/UK ESRC Visiting Americas Fellowship. Diagrammatic reasoning Some of my research has looked at how people select, construct and use external representations (eg. diagrams) in their solutions to problems such as constraint satisfaction puzzles and in systems (eg switchERII) that support those activities An EPSRC-funded project is studying how external representations are used by students learning to program in Java CRUSADE - Coordination of multiple external Representations in program UnderStAnding and DEbugging (with Ben du Boulay, Rudi Lutz and Pablo Romero) I was Program Chair for the Diagrams 2006 Conference which was held at Stanford University, June 28-30. Publications See `Selected Publications' on my Informatics profile page - all available as downloadable pdfs Teaching Psychological methods for system evaluation (Human-Centred Computer Systems MSc) Solving Real-World Problems (Cognitive Science Interdisciplinary Program) Knowledge Engineering (CSAI) Research Methods in CSAI (DPhil, MRes) Interactive Learning Environments (u/g, MSc, DPhil) Multimedia Systems (MSc) DPhil/PhD supervision Beate Grawemeyer: AIVE- User-adaptive information visualisation for information retrieval Evgenia Vagianou: Enhancing computer science students' learning of algorithmics Grecia Garcia Garcia who is studying External representations in the UK National Curriculum, children's comprehension of diagrams Marina Casarino: Computer-supported diagramming for supporting maths students Previous posts, past projects... From 1991 to 1998 I was a member of the Graphics and Language Working Group at HCRC, University of Edinburgh. I was also a member of the Edinburgh AI in Education group. I maintain links with Edinburgh as an Honorary Fellow in the Division of Informatics. link to past projects... E-mail: richc (AT) sussex.ac.uk