Mark Lansdale

Mark W. Lansdale (* 1953 in Birmingham ) is a British psychologist.

Life

Mark Lansdale studied psychology at the University of Cambridge from 1972 , where he received his doctorate in 1979 . As a professor he taught at Loughborough University in the 1990s , now at the University of Leicester .

research

His research areas are memory and human-computer interaction . He became known to a wider public in 1992 when his research into finding documents in outwardly tidy or chaotic workplaces was reflected in numerous press reports. Lansdale came to the conclusion that the retrieval of documents works better on desks that appear chaotic, since the owner of a workstation organized as a Desk Volcano with a crater-like cleared area in the middle and mountains of paper around it searches for documents in a contextual manner.

Works (selection)

• Remembering about Documents. Memory for Appearance, Format and Location. In: Ergonomics ( ISSN  0014-0139 ), Volume 34, 1991, Issue 8, pp. 1161–1178
• (with Thomas C. Ormerod): Understanding interfaces. 1994, ISBN 0-12-528390-3

Web links

• Homepage of Mark Lansdale at the University of Leicester
• Conical litter. In: Der Spiegel. Issue 42/1992 (about Lansdale's research results)