Martin Stacey's Research
I'm a cognitive scientist. My perspective on the research problems I encounter comes from my training in psychology and artificial intelligence: I want to understand how people think, how knowledge and information get used by humans and computers. I want to understand how computer systems influence human thinking and how they can enhance it. But in my more recent work I've had to think about social and cultural processes involved in complex activities like software development and engineering design. Cognitive and sociological approaches to human behaviour are often treated as opposed or incompatible; my concern is to integrate them. This has led me to look at what designers do as well as how they do it, working with philosophyers to apply the insights of philosophy of science to design.
The focus of my research is understanding design and developing computer tools for designers. I'm especially interested in human computer interaction aspects of design support systems.
The main themes in my current work are
I do most of my work in collaboration with colleagues at other universities. Co-authors of my research papers include
My Erdős Number is at most 4.