Iain Kusel
I enrolled as a part-time research student with the Open University in December 2007. I am reading for a PhD in the investigation via computational modelling of an experimental psychology task called seriation. My supervisory team is made up of Jeff Johnson and Anthony Lucas-Smith (Open University) and Maggie McGonigle (Edinburgh University). I am a visiting researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.
I work part-time as a freelance software engineer, and I'm based in Scotland.
PhD Research Project
My research project investigates the behavioural change that is seen throughout child development in a task called seriation. This task involves the arrangement by the child of a set of objects according to a dimension of difference, such as size. The task, although widely used within experimental psychology for quantifying cognitive growth, remains underspecified in the literature in terms of exactly what is being computed by the child. The aim is to represent the task and the growth of seriation behaviour in a computer simulation. The desired outcome of this research is to contribue to both experimental psychology and artificial intelligence communities.
Curriculum Vitae
I studied Psychology at the University of Edinburgh (1997) and Artificial Intelligence (1998) at the University of Aberdeen. I have worked since 1998 for a variety of companies from multinational (Coats-Viyella, Motorola, Harper-Collins) to startups (EuroPC, Tadpole Technology), engaging in a wide range of projects that have taken me to North and South America and Africa. I've most recently worked in Glasgow for an outsourcing company called Avance, designing software supporting centralised dialling technology for Centrica UK.
Links
I am co-organising a workshop for PhD students at the ECCS09
Contact Information
Contact Information
Email: ik857@open.ac.uk; iainkusel@hotmail.com
Phone: +44 (0)7904 619 015
Fax: +44 (0)1908 654052
Room: Venables building
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