Michael Scaife (24 March 1948 – 18 December 2001) was a British biologist, psychologist, and reader at the University of Sussex, known for his early work in developmental psychology[1][2] and his later interdisciplinary study in cognitive and computing sciences.
[3] Scaife started his academic career as research assistant at the ethology group of the University of Oxford, where he cooperated with Mike Cullen, Nikolaas Tinbergen and Richard Dawkins.
Later in the 1970s at University of Oxford he participated in the education and cognition research group of Jerome Bruner, with whom he published the article "The capacity for joint visual attention in the infant" in Nature in 1975.
The target was to unravel what was involved in a child's learning to master a culture and the technology it generates.
Also with his partner Yvonne Rogers he founded the Interact Lab to study representation in problem solving.