Peter ChengEmeritus Professor (Informatics)
Selected publications
Article
Al Sayed, Kinda, Cheng, Peter C H and Penn, Alan (2022) An investigation into the cognitive, metacognitive, and spatial markers of creativity and efficiency in architectural design. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 35. pp. 1-15. ISSN 0890-0604
Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) A cognitive science analysis of the Quaker Business Method: is how it works why it works? Quaker Studies Journal, 24 (2). pp. 271-297. ISSN 2397-1770
Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) Truth Diagrams versus extant notations for propositional logic. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. ISSN 0925-8531
Garcia Garcia, Grecia, Grau, Ronald R, Aldrich, Frances K and Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) Multi-touch Interaction Data Analysis System (MIDAS) for 2-D tactile display research. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-3528
Cheng, Peter C-H and van Genuchten, Erlijn (2018) Combinations of simple mechanisms explain diverse strategies in the freehand writing of memorised sentences. Cognitive Science, 42 (4). pp. 1070-1109. ISSN 0364-0213
Obaidellah, Unaizah, Al Haek, Mohammed and Cheng, Peter (2018) A survey on the usage of eye-tracking in computer programming. ACM Computing Surveys, 51 (1). ISSN 0360-0300
Obaidellah, U H and Cheng, P C-H (2015) The role of chunking in drawing Rey complex figure. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 120 (2). pp. 535-555. ISSN 0031-5125
Cheng, Peter C-H (2014) Graphical notations for syllogisms: how alterative representations impact the accessibility of concepts. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 25 (3). pp. 170-185. ISSN 1045-926X
Wood, Sharon, Cox, Richard and Cheng, Peter (2006) Attention design: eight issues to consider. Computers in Human Behavior, 22. pp. 588-602. ISSN 0747-5632
Peebles, David and Cheng, Peter C.-H. (2003) Modeling the effect of task and graphical representation on response latency in a graph reading task. Human Factors, 45 (1). pp. 28-46. ISSN 0018-7208
Cheng, Peter C-H (2002) Electrifying diagrams for learning: principles for effective representational systems. Cognitive Science, 26 (6). pp. 685-736. ISSN 0364-0213
Cheng, P.C.-H., Cupit, J. and Shadbolt, N.R. (2001) Supporting diagrammatic knowledge acquisition: an ontological analysis of Cartesian graphs. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 54 (4). pp. 457-494. ISSN 1071-5819
Cheng, Peter C.-H. (1999) Unlocking conceptual learning in mathematics and science with effective representational systems. Computers & Education, 33 (2-3). pp. 109-130. ISSN 0360-1315
Book Section
Jamnik, Mateja and Cheng, Peter (2021) Endowing machines with the expert human ability to select representations: why and how. In: Muggleton, Stephen and Chater, Nicholas (eds.) Human-like machine intelligence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198862536
Cheng, Peter C-H (2016) What constitutes an effective representation? In: Jamik, Mateja, Uesaka, Yuri and Schwartz, Stephanie (eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 9th International Conference, Diagrams 2016. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (9781). Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 17-31. ISBN 9783319423333
Cheng, Peter C-H (2015) Analyzing chunk pauses to measure mathematical competence: Copying equations using ‘centre-click’ interaction. In: Noelle, D C, Dale, R, Warlaumont, A S, Yoshimi, J and Matlock, J (eds.) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society., Austin, TX, pp. 345-350. ISBN 9780991196722
Grau, R R and Cheng, P C H (2015) Scientific discovery, computational models of. In: Wright, James D (ed.) International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 291-296. ISBN 9780080970868
Cheng, Peter C -H (2014) Copying equations to assess mathematical competence: An evaluation of pause measures using graphical protocol analysis. In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 319-324.
Roller, Ramona and Cheng, Peter C -H (2014) Observed strategies in the freehand drawing of complex hierarchical diagrams. In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 2020-2025.
Conference or Workshop Item
Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) Towards high-bandwidth computer-human understanding: cognitive chunking theory and microbehavioural signals. In: Human-Like Computing Machine Intelligence Workshop (MI21-HLC), 30th June to 3 July, 2019, Windsor, UK.
Grau, Ronald and Cheng, Peter (2013) The support of higher-level cognition in the context of ill-structured process knowledge. In: Second Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, 12th - 14th December 2013, Baltimore, Maryland..
Cheng, Peter (2012) Algebra diagrams: a HANDi introduction. In: Diagrams 2012, LNAI 7352, 2-6 July 2012, University of Kent.
Cheng, Peter C H (2012) Visualizing syllogisms: category pattern diagrams versus Venn diagrams. In: 3rd International Workshop on Euler Diagrams, July 2, 2012, Canterbury, UK.
Conference Proceedings
Colarusso, Fiorenzo, Cheng, Peter C-H, Garcia Garcia, Grecia, Raggi, Daniel and Jamnik, Mateja (2021) Observing strategies of drawing data representations. The 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (DIAGRAMS 2021), online, 28th - 30th September 2021. Published in: 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28–30, 2021, Proceedings. 12909 537-552. Springer ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 9783030860615
Ismail, Hadeel and Cheng, Peter (2021) Competence assessment by stimulus matching: an application of GOMS to assess chunks in memory. 19th Internation Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Virtual, July 1 - July 12, 2021. Published in: Proceedings of 19th Internation Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Society for Mathematical Psychology
Raggi, Daniel, Stapleton, Gem, Stockdill, Aaron, Jamnik, Mateja, Garcia, Grecia Garcia and Cheng, Peter C -H (2020) How to (re)represent it? International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Virtual, 9-11 November 2020. Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI. 1224-1232. IEEE ISSN 1082-3409 ISBN 9781728192284
Stockdill, Aaron, Raggi, Daniel, Jamnik, Mateja, Garcia, Grecia Garcia, Sutherland, Holly E A, Cheng, Peter C -H and Sarkar, Advait (2020) Correspondence-based analogies for choosing problem representations. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Dunedin, New Zealand, 10-14 Aug 2020. Published in: Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC. 1-5. IEEE ISSN 1943-6092 ISBN 9781728169019
Albehaijan, Noorah and Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) Measuring programming competence by assessing chunk structures in a code transcription task. CogSci 2019: The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada, 24 - 27 July, 2019. Published in: Goel, Ashok, Seifert, Colleen and Freksa, Christian, (eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 1 76-82. Cognitive Science Society ISSN 1069-7977 ISBN 9781510891555
Raggi, Daniel, Stockdill, Aaron, Jamnik, Mateja, Garcia Garcia, Grecia, Sutherland, Holly E A and Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) Inspection and selection of representations. 12th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, CICM 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-12, 2019. Published in: CICM 2019 Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 12th International Conference. 11617 227-242. Springer ISSN 0302-9743
Raggi, Daniel, Stockdill, Aaron, Jamnik, Mateja, Garcia Garcia, Grecia, Sutherland, Holly E A and Cheng, Peter C-H (2019) Inspection and selection of representations. CICM 2019: International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, Prague, Czech Republic, 8-12 July 2019. Published in: Intelligent Computer Mathemati. 11617 Springer ISBN 9783030232504
Cheng, Peter C-H (2018) Sets for foundational representations? A design case study with probability and distributions. SetVR 2018: International Workshop on Set Visualization and Reasoning, Edinburgh, UK, 18 June 2018. Published in: Sato, Yuri and Shams, Zohreh, (eds.) Proceedings of International Workshop on Set Visualization and Reasoning (SetVR 2018). 1-11. CEUR Workshop Proceedings ISSN 1613-0073
Peebles, David and Cheng, Peter (2017) Multiple representations in cognitive architectures. AAAI 2017 fall symposium series, Arlington, Virginia, 9-11 November 2017. Published in: AAAI 2017 fall symposium series. 425-430. AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA. ISBN 9781577357940
Grau, Ronald R and Cheng, Peter C (2008) Diagrammatic knowledge-based tools for complex multi-dynamic processes. 5th International Conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, Herrsching, GERMANY, September 19-21, 2008. Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5223 371-373. Springer Verlag ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-540-87729-5