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Publications

	Sio, U. Ormerod, T.C. (2009). Does Incubation Enhance Problem Solving? A Meta-Analytic Review Psychological Bulletin , 135, 94-120.
	Ormerod, T.C., & Ball, L. J. (2008). Qualitative methods in cognitive psychology Chapter in C. Willig & W. Stainton Rogers (Eds.) : Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology.. London: Sage Publications Ltd.
	Bearman, C.R., Ball, L.J., & Ormerod, T.C. (2007). The structure and function of spontaneous analogising in domain-based problem solving Thinking and Reasoning, 13, 273-294.
	Ball, L. J., Sasse, A., Sas, C., Ormerod, T. C., Dix. A., Bagnall, P., and McEwan, T. (Eds.). (2007). People and Computers XXI - HCI... but not as we know it: Proceedings of HCI 2007. Swindon: The British Computer Society..
	Morley, N.J., Ball, L.J., & Ormerod, T.C. (2006). How the detection of insurance fraud succeeds and fails Psychology, Crime, and Law, 12, 163-180.
	Chronicle, E.P., MacGregor, J.N., & Ormerod, T.C. (2006). It looks easy! Heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 783-800.
	Fleming, P., Ball, L.J., Ormerod, T.C. & Collins, A. (2006). Analogue versus propositional representation in congenitally blind individuals Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 1049-1055.
	MacGregor,JN., Chronicle, E.P., and Ormerod, T.C. (2006). A Comparison of Heuristic and Human Performance on Open Versions of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Journal of Problem Solving, 1, 33-43.
	Ormerod, T.C. (2005). Planning and ill-defined problems. Chapter in R. Morris and G. Ward (Eds.): The Cognitive Psychology of Planning. London: Psychology Press.
	Ormerod, T.C. & Shepherd, A. (2004). Using task analysis for information requirements specification: The SGT method. Chapter in D. Diaper & N. Stanton (Eds.): The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
	Chronicle, E.P., MacGregor, J.N., & Ormerod, T.C. (2004). What makes an insight problem? The roles of heuristics, goal conception and solution recoding in knowledge-lean problems Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 30, 14-27.
	MacGregor, J.N., Chronicle, E.P. & Ormerod, T.C. (2004). Convex-Hull or Crossing-Avoidance? Solution Heuristics in the Traveling Salesperson Problem Memory & Cognition, 32, 260-270.
	Ormerod, T.C., Morley, N., Mariani, J., Lewis, K., Hitch, G., Mathrick, J. & Rodden, T. (2004). Doing ethnography and experiments together to explore collaborative photograph handling: In A. Dearden & L. watts (Eds.) Proc. HCI2004: Design for Life, Volume 2,pp. 81-84. 6-10th September 2004, Leeds.
	Ormerod, T.C., Mariani, J., Morley, N.J., Rodden, T. Crabtree, A. Mathrick, J. Hitch, G. & Lewis, K. (2004). Mixing Research Methods in HCI: Ethnography Meets Experimentation in Image Browser Design: EHCI-DSVIS'2004. Hamburg, Germany.
	Ball, L.J., Ormerod, T.C. & Morley, N.J. (2004). Spontaneous analogising in engineering design:  a comparative analysis of experts and novices. Design Studies, 25, 495-508.
	Fleming, P., Ball, L.J., Collins, A.F., & Ormerod, T.C. (2004). Spatial representation and processing in the congenitally blind. Chapter in S. Ballesteros, & M.A. Heller (Eds.): Touch, Blindness, and Neuroscience. . Madrid: UNED Press..
	Ormerod, T.C. & Richardson, J. (2003). On the generation and evaluation of inferences from single premises. Memory and Cognition, 31, 467-478.
	Ormerod, T.C., Morley, N., Ball, L.J., Langley, C. & Spencer, C. (2003). Using ethnography to design a Mass Detection Tool (MDT) for the early discovery of insurance fraud: ACM CHI 2003 conference. Florida, April 2003.
	Ball, L.J., Ormerod, T.C. & Morley, N.J. (2003). Spontaneous analogising in engineering design: A comparative analysis of experts and novices: Design Thinking Research Symposium 6 'Expertise in Design'.. Sydney Australia, November 2003.
	Bearman, C., Ormerod, T.C. & Ball, L.J. (2003). A negative effect of evaluation upon analogical problem-solving: 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston MA, August 2003.
	Ball, L.J., Ormerod, T.C., & Morley, N.J. (2003). Spontaneous analogising in engineering design: A comparative analysis of experts and novices. Chapter in N. Cross, & E. Edmonds (Eds.): Expertise in Design: Design Thinking Research Symposium 6.. University of Technology, Sydney: Creativity & Cognition Studios Press..
	Bearman, C., Ball, L.J. & Ormerod, T.C. (2002). An exploration of real-world analogical problem-solving in novices: 24th conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington DC.
	Ormerod, T. C., MacGregor, J. N. & Chronicle, E. P. (2002). Dynamics and Constraints in Insight Problem Solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 28, No. 4, 791-799.
	Chronicle, E. P., Ormerod, T. C., & MacGregor, J. N. (2001). When insight just won't come: The failure of visual cues in the nine-dot problem. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54A, 903-919.
	MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C., & Chronicle, E. P. (2001). Information-processing and insight: A process model of performance on the nine-dot and related problems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 27, 176-201.
	MacGregor, J.N., Ormerod, T.C., & Chronicle, E. (2000). A model of human performance on the travelling salesperson problem. Memory & Cognition, 7, 1183-1190.
	Ball, L.J. & Ormerod, T.C. (2000). Putting ethnography to work: The case for a cognitive ethnography of design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53, 147-168.
	Ball, L.J. & Ormerod, T.C. (2000). Applying ethnography in the analysis and support of expertise in engineering design. Design Studies, 21, 403-421.
	MacGregor, J.N. & Ormerod, T.C. (2000). Evaluating the importance of the convex hull in solving the Euclidean version of the traveling salesperson problem: Reply to Lee and Vickers (2000). Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 1501-1503.
	Ormerod, T. C., & Chronicle, E. P. (1999). Global perceptual processes in problem-solving: The case of the traveling salesperson. Perception and Psychophysics, 61, 1227-1238.
	Ormerod, T.C., Mariani, J. Ball, L.J. & Lambell, N. (1999). Desperado: Three-in-one indexing for innovative design: Interact -Seventh IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. IOS Press, London.
	Ormerod, T.C., Fritz, C.O. & Ridgway, J. (1999). From deep to superficial categorisation with increasing expertise: 21st conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, August 1999.
	Ormerod, T.C. & Ridgway, J. (1999). Developing task design guides through cognitive studies of expertise: European Conference on Cognitive Science( ECCS99) . Sienna, Italy, 1999.
	MacGregor, J. N., Ormerod, T. C. and Chronicle, E. P. (1999). Spatial and contextual factors in human performance on the travelling salesperson problem Perception, 28, 1417-1427.
	Richardson, J. & Ormerod, T.C. (1997). rephrasing between disjunctives and conditionals: Mental models and the effects of thematic content. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50A, 358-385.
	Ball, L.J., Evans, J.St. B., Dennis, I.& Ormerod, T.C. (1997). Problem-solving strategies and expertise in engineering design Thinking and Reasoning, 3, 247-270.
	MacGregor, J.N. & Ormerod, T.C. (1996). Human performance on the traveling salesman problem Perception and Psychophysics, 58, 527-539.
	Lansdale, M.W. & Ormerod, T.C. (1994). Understanding Interfaces: A handbook of human-computer dialogue. Academic Press. 289pp..

Grants

• 2008 (for One year) from CPNI.
  Evaluation of the BASS approach to security screening in mass-transportation contexts
  
  
• 2008 (for One year), EPCIP initiative from European Union.
  Capturing expertise in passenger screening for assuring best practice and technological support in transportation security.
  
  
• 2007 (for Three years) from EPSRC.
  D-SCENT: Raising challenges to deception attempts using data scent trails
  with Mike Jackson, Bai Li (Nottingham), Saleem Bhatti (St Andrews), Ray Bull (Leicester) & Elizabeth Guest (Leeds Met).
  More details about this grant can be found here.
  
• 2001 (for one year), Study Abroad Grant from Leverhulme.
  Minimal completion in reasoning and problem-solving.
  
  
• 2000 (for three years), Joint Initiative in People At the Centre of Communications and IT from ESRC/EPSRC.
  The way we were: Situational shifts in collaborative remembering.
  with York & Nottingham Universities.
  More details about this grant can be found here.