Maggie Webb

Investigating aesthetics to afford more 'felt' knowledge and 'meaningful' navigation interface designs

F Carroll, Simon Cropper, Maggie Webb

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)

Aesthetically manipulating the visual variables of a navigation interface design has the potential for substantial improvements in..

Autistic and positive schizotypal traits respectively predict better convergent and divergent thinking performance

A Abu-Akel, ME Webb, E de Montpellier, S Von Bentivegni, L Luechinger, A Ishii, C Mohr

Journal article  |  2020  |  Thinking Skills and Creativity

Creativity is considered essential to the advancement of every society. To measure creativity, researchers frequently assess diver..

Commentary: Moment of (Perceived) Truth: Exploring Accuracy of Aha! Experiences

Margaret E Webb, Ruben E Laukkonen, Simon J Cropper, Daniel R Little

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR

Danek and Salvi (The Journal of Creative Behavior, 1–3, 2018) provide a sound overview of research on the relationship between fee..

Working memory in insight problem solving

K Gilhooly, ME Webb

Book Chapter  |  2019

The ‘business as usual’ approach to insight problem solving suggests that working memory processes would have a prominent role in ..

Losing Our Senses Online: Investigating How Aesthetics Might be Used to Ground People in Cyberspace

S Cropper, Fiona Carroll, Margaret Elizabeth Webb

Journal article  |  2018  |  IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

The term cyberspace was coined by William Gibson, who used it in his book, Neuromancer in 1989 [15]. Gibson [15, p. 128] defines c..

The contributions of convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and schizotypy to solving insight and non-insight problems

Margaret E Webb, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper, Kayla Roze

Journal article  |  2017  |  THINKING & REASONING

The ability to generate diverse ideas (divergent thinking) is valuable in solving creative problems (e.g., insight problems); yet,..

Insight Is Not in the Problem: Investigating Insight in Problem Solving across Task Types

Margaret E Webb, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2016  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

The feeling of insight in problem solving is typically associated with the sudden realization of a solution that appears obviously..

Detecting Unidentified Changes

Piers DL Howe, Margaret E Webb

Journal article  |  2014  |  PLOS ONE

Does becoming aware of a change to a purely visual stimulus necessarily cause the observer to be able to identify or localise the ..