This page has links to selected recent publications, some of which are downloadable.
See also individual areas of research.
Blackwell, A. F. and Green, T. R. G. (2003) Notational systems Ð the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework. In John M. Carroll (Ed.) HCI Models, Theories and Frameworks, cha 5, pp 103-133. Amsterdam etc: Morgan Kaufmann.
Blackwell, A.F. & Green, T.R.G. (2000). A Cognitive Dimensions questionnaire optimised for users. In A.F. Blackwell & E. Bilotta (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twelth Annual Meeting of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, 137-152.
Green, T. R. G. (2000) Instructions and descriptions: some cognitive aspects of programming and similar activities. Invited paper, in Di Gesù, V., Levialdi, S. and Tarantino, L., (Eds.) Proceedings of Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000). New York: ACM Press, pp 21-28.
Green, T. R. G., Burnett, M., Ko, A., Cook, C. and Schonfeld, J. (2000) Using the Cognitive Walkthrough to improve the design of a visual programming experiment. In (no editors listed) 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages (VL2000), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, pp172-179
K. J. Rothermel, C. R. Cook, M. M. Burnett, J. Schonfeld, T. R. G. Green and G. Rothermel (2000) WYSIWYT testing in the spreadsheet paradigm: an empirical evaluation. International Conf. on Software Engineering, Limerick, 2000.
Blackwell, A.F., Green, T.R.G. & Nunn, D.J.E. (2000). Cognitive Dimensions and musical notation systems. Paper presented at ICMC 2000, Berlin: Workshop on Notation and Music Information Retrieval in the Computer Age.
Blackwell, A F and Green, T R G (1999) Investment of attention as an analytic approach to cognitive dimensions. In T. R. G. Green, R. H. Abdullah & P. Brna (Eds.) Collected Papers of the 11th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG-11), pp. 24-35.
Green, T. R. G. (1998) Building and manipulating complex information structures: issues in Prolog programming. In P. Brna, B. du Boulay and H. Pain (Eds.), Learning to Build and Comprehend Complex Information Structures: Prolog as a Case Study. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999. Word 6.1 RTF document (92K)
Green T R G and Blackwell, A F (1998) A tutorial on cognitive dimensions. This tutorial has 3 parts: an introduction to the framework; analysis of two real-life examples; and a set of interactive virtual devices, accessible via the web, which illustrate different design decisions and their trade-offs.
T. R. G. Green, L. Bannon, C. P. Warren and J. Buckley (Eds) (1998) Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, 'Cognition and Co-operation'. Rocquencourt: EACE. Index of abstracts and downloadable papers
Green, T. R. G. (1997) Cognitive approaches to software comprehension: results, gaps and limitations. Extended abstract of talk at workshop on Experimental Psychology in Software Comprehension Studies 97, University of Limerick, Ireland
.A. Blandford and T. R. G. Green (1997) OSM: an ontology-based approach to usability evaluation. Workshop on Representations, Queen Mary College London, 1997. Click here for a postscript version or here for an RTF version.
T. R. G. Green and A. Blandford (1997) Ontology Sketching: catching usability problems by spotting misfits. Available in RTF or in HTML.
Petre, M., Blackwell, A. F. and Green, T. R. G. (1997) Cognitive questions in software visualisation. In Stasko J., Domingue, J., Price, B., Brown, M. (Eds.) Software Visualization: Programming as a Multi-Media Experience. MIT Press
Green, T. R. G. and Petre, M. (1996) Usability analysis of visual programming environments: a 'cognitive dimensions' framework. J. Visual Languages and Computing, 7, 131-174.
Green, T. R. G. and Benyon, D. (1996.) The skull beneath the skin: entity-relationship models of information artifacts. Int. J. Human-Computer Studies, 44(6) 801-828.
Green, T.R.G. and Blackwell, A.F. (1996). Ironies of abstraction. In Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Thinking. British Psychological Society.
Green, T. R. G. (1996) An introduction to the Cognitive Dimensions framework. Extended abstract of invited talk at MIRA workshop, Monselice, Italy. (HTML)
Green, T. R. G. (1994) "Noddy's Guide to Visual Programming". Interfaces (Newsletter of the British Computer Society Human-Computer Interaction Group), 1995. (postscript)