Representational Systems Lab - Doctoral Study

Director: Peter C-H. Cheng     Professor of Cognitive Science

Creative Technology Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex

Prospective PhD students - Thinking of a research degree?

• Knowledge visualizations
• 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

• Design, implementation and experimental evaluation of graphical user-interfaces / knowledge visualizations
  
• Cognitive modelling (computational production systems/ACT-R, task analysis (e.g., GOMS)
• Eye-movement recording and analysis.
  
• Graphical Protocol Analysis (capture and analysis of writing and drawing production)
• Tactile Protocol Analysis (capture and analysis of reading by touch)
• Cognitive experiments of performance, problem solving and learning  in the lab, in classrooms, over the internet
  

For more details see the RepSys lab publications or contact Peter Cheng to discuss potential project ideas. 

Past and Current PhD Student Topics