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Professor Thomas Ormerod

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2006
  2. Published

    Why bad ideas are a good idea

    Dix, A., Sas, C., Gomes da Silva, P., McKnight, L., Ormerod, T. & Twidale, M., 03/2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  3. Published

    A comparison of heuristic and human performance on open versions of the traveling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Chronicle, E. P. & Ormerod, T., 2006, In: Journal of Problem Solving. 1, 1, p. 33-43 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    As useful as a bicycle to a fish: exploration versus constraint in creativity

    McKnight, L., Ormerod, T. C., Sas, C. & Dix, A., 2006, p. 291-291. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  5. Published

    It looks easy! Heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems.

    Chronicle, E. P., MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. & Burr, A., 2006, In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 39, 4, p. 783 -800

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. 2005
  7. Published

    Planning and ill-defined problems.

    Ormerod, T. C., 2005, The cognitive Psychology of Planning. Morris, R. & Ward, G. (eds.). Hove: Psychology Press, 246 p. (Current issues in thinking & reasoning).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  8. 2004
  9. Published

    Doing ethnography and experiments together to explore collaborative photograph handling.

    Ormerod, T. C., Morley, N., Mariani, J., Lewis, K., Hitch, G., Mathrick, J. & Rodden, T., 09/2004, In: Design For Life. 2, p. 81-84 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Spontaneous analogising in engineering design: a comparative analysis of experts and novices.

    Ball, L. J., Ormerod, T. C., Morley, N. J., Cross, N. (ed.) & Edmonds, E. (ed.), 09/2004, In: Design Studies. 25, 5, p. 495-508 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Convex-hull or crossing-avoidance? : solution heuristics in the travelling salesperson problem.

    MacGregor, J. N., Chronicle, E. P. & Ormerod, T. C., 03/2004, In: Memory and Cognition. 32, 2, p. 260-270 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    What makes an insight problem? The roles of heuristics, goal conception and solution recoding in knowledge-lean problems.

    Chronicle, E. P., MacGregor, J. N. & Ormerod, T. C., 01/2004, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 30, 1, p. 14-27 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Mixing Research Methods in HCI: Ethnography Meets Experimentation in Image Browser Design.

    Ormerod, T. C., Mariani, J., Moreley, N. J., Rodden, T., Crabtree, A., Mathrick, J., Hitch, G. & Lewis, K., 2004, Hamburg, Germany, 16 p.

    Research output: Working paper

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