Dr Panagiotis D. Ritsos

• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PgCertHE) Other
• Electronic Systems Engineering PhD (University of Essex)
• MEng Electronic Systems Engineering Other (University of Essex)

Panagiotis (Panos) is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering , Bangor University, UK, and a member of the Visualization, Modelling and Graphics (VMG) reserch group. He is also the Director of Student Engagement. Panos completed his PhD at the Vision and Synthetic Environments Laboratory, of the University of Essex in 2006. He also holds a MEng on Electronic Systems Engineering, from the University of Essex (2000).

Previously, Panos was a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Chester, UK (2015/16), a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Computer Science, Bangor University, UK (2011-2015), and a software developer with Intracom Telecom S.A., Greece (2007-2011).

Teaching:

• Web Technologies (Year 1)
• Graphics & Web Design (Year 2)
• Internet Tech for E-Commerce (Year 3)
• Tech for Internet Systems (Year 4)

Supervision (Research):

• Pete Butcher, PhD, Immersive Analytics, Since 2015 (co-sup. with Prof N. John, University of Chester)
• Sion Curig Edwards, PhD, Affective Computing, Since 2017 (co-sup. with Dr D. Perkins)

Supervision (Taught):

• Computing Project & Dissertation (Year 4)
• Individual Project - Computing (Year 3)
• Software Hut (Year 2)

PhD topics are available in the following research areas:

• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Immersive Analytics
• Virtual and/or Mixed/Augmented Reality (VR, MR/AR - XR)
• Affective Wearable Computing

Panos' research interests lie in the domain of human-computer interaction and include:

• mixed/augmented and virtual reality
• information visualization
• visual analytics
• wearable computing

He is particularly interested in potential synergies between these fields within different flavours of human-data interaction, such as beyond-the-desktop visualization and immersive analytics.

The above research topics can be explored in a variety of applied domains, including Ocean Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Nuclear Sciences, Cultural Heritage, Learning and Education, and Computer Games, 

2019

• VRIA - A Framework for Immersive Analytics on the Web
  
  Butcher, PWS, John, NW & Ritsos, PD 2019, VRIA - A Framework for Immersive Analytics on the Web. in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI'19 Extended Abstracts). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312798

2018

• Creating Small Unit Based Glyph Visualisation
  
  Jackson, J, Ritsos, PD & Roberts, JC 2018, 'Creating Small Unit Based Glyph Visualisation' IEEE Conference on Visualization, Berlin, Germany, 21/10/18 - 26/10/18, .
• Towards a Framework for Immersive Analytics on the Web
  
  Butcher, P, John, N & Ritsos, PD 2018, 'Towards a Framework for Immersive Analytics on the Web' IEEE Conference on Visualization, Berlin, Germany, 21/10/18 - 26/10/18, .
• Developing a formative visual feedback report for data brokering
  
  Varghese, D, Roberts, JC & Ritsos, PD 2018, 'Developing a formative visual feedback report for data brokering' IEEE Conference on Visualization , Berlin, Germany, 22/10/18 - 26/10/18, .
• Water4Cities: An ICT platform enabling Holistic Surface Water and Groundwater Management for Sustainable Cities
  
  Rizou, S, Kenda, K, Kofinas, D, Mellios, N, Pergar, P, Ritsos, PD, Vardakas, J, Kalaboukas, K, Laspidou, C, Senožetnik, M & Spiropoulou, A 2018, 'Water4Cities: An ICT platform enabling Holistic Surface Water and Groundwater Management for Sustainable Cities', Proceedings, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2110695
• Smart Water Management for Cities
  
  Kenda, K, Rizou, S, Mellios, N, Kofinas, D, Ritsos, PD, Senozetnik, M & Laspidou, C 2018, 'Smart Water Management for Cities' ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining , London, United Kingdom, 20/08/18, .
• The Implementation and Validation of a Virtual Environment for Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres
  
  John, N, Pop, S, Day, T, Ritsos, PD & Headleand, C 2018, 'The Implementation and Validation of a Virtual Environment for Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres', IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1867-1878. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2700273
• Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents
  
  Lewis, P (ed.), Headleand, C, Battle, S (ed.) & Ritsos, PD (ed.) 2018, Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents: Second International Symposium, ALIA 2016, Birmingham, UK, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science.
• The Explanatory Visualization Framework: An active learning framework for teaching creative computing using explanatory visualizations
  
  Roberts, JC, Ritsos, PD, Jackson, JR & Headleand, C 2018, 'The Explanatory Visualization Framework: An active learning framework for teaching creative computing using explanatory visualizations', IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 971-801. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2745878

2017

• Experience and Guidance for the use of Sketching and low-fidelity Visualisation-design in teaching
  
  Roberts, JC, Ritsos, PD & Headleand, C 2017, Experience and Guidance for the use of Sketching and low-fidelity Visualisation-design in teaching. in Pedagogy of Data Visualization Workshop, IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS), Phoenix, Arizona.
• Five Design-Sheets
  
  Roberts, JC, Headleand, C & Ritsos, PD 2017, Five Design-Sheets: Creative Design and Sketching for Computing and Visualisation. 1 edn, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55627-7
• Building Immersive Data Visualizations for the Web
  
  Butcher, P & Ritsos, PD 2017, Building Immersive Data Visualizations for the Web. in Proceedings of International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW’17). IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 142-145. https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2017.11
• Web-based Immersive Analytics in Handheld Augmented Reality
  
  Ritsos, PD, Jackson, J & Roberts, JC 2017, 'Web-based Immersive Analytics in Handheld Augmented Reality' IEEE Conference on Visualization, Phoenix, United States, 1/10/17 - 6/10/17, .

2016

• A Cost-Effective Virtual Environment for Simulating and Training Powered Wheelchairs Manoeuvres
  
  Headleand, C, Day, T, Pop, S, Ritsos, PD & John, N 2016, A Cost-Effective Virtual Environment for Simulating and Training Powered Wheelchairs Manoeuvres. in Medicine meets virtual reality 22: Proceedings of NextMed/MMVR22. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 220, IOS Press, pp. 134-141. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-625-5-134
• Immersive Analytics with WebVR and Google Cardboard
  
  Putcher, PWS, Roberts, JC & Ritsos, PD 2016, 'Immersive Analytics with WebVR and Google Cardboard' IEEE Conference in Visualization, Baltimore, United States, 23/10/16 - 28/10/16, .

2015

• Alternative Representations of 3D-Reconstructed Heritage Data
  
  Miles, HC, Wilson, A, Labrosse, F, Tiddeman, B, Griffiths, S, Edwards, B, Ritsos, PD, Mearman, JW, Moller, K, Karl, R & Roberts, JC 2015, 'Alternative Representations of 3D-Reconstructed Heritage Data', Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 9, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1145/2795233
• Contextual network navigation to provide situational awareness for network administrators
  
  Gray, C, Ritsos, PD & Roberts, JC 2015, 'Contextual network navigation to provide situational awareness for network administrators' Paper presented at Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), 2015 IEEE Symposium on, Chicago, United States, 25/10/15 - 25/10/15, . https://doi.org/10.1109/VIZSEC.2015.7312769
• Sketching Designs Using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology
  
  Roberts, JC, Headleand, C & Ritsos, PD 2015, 'Sketching Designs Using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology', IEEE Computer Society, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 419-428. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467271

2014

• Sewn with Ariadne’s Thread – Visualizations for Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing
  
  Ritsos, PD, Mearman, JW, Van de Moere, A & Roberts, JC 2014, 'Sewn with Ariadne’s Thread – Visualizations for Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing' Paper presented at Death of the Desktop Workshop, IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS 2014), Paris, 9 - 11 Nov. 2014, 3/01/01, .
• The desktop is dead, long live the desktop! – Towards a multisensory desktop for visualization
  
  Ritsos, PD, Mearman, JW & Roberts, JC 2014, 'The desktop is dead, long live the desktop! – Towards a multisensory desktop for visualization' Paper presented at Death of the Desktop Workshop, IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS 2014), Paris, 9 - 11 Nov. 2014, 3/01/01, .
• Community-driven generation of 3D and augmented-web content for archaeology
  
  Ritsos, PD, Wilson, AT, Miles, HC, Williams, LF, Tiddeman, B, Labrosse, F, Griffiths, S, Edwards, B, Möller, K, Karl, R & Roberts, JC 2014, 'Community-driven generation of 3D and augmented-web content for archaeology' Paper presented at 12th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (EGGCH2014), 6-8 October 2014, Darmstadt, Germany, 3/01/01, pp. 25-28.
• Visualization beyond the Desktop--the Next Big Thing
  
  Roberts, JC, Ritsos, PD, Badam, SK, Brodbeck, D, Kennedy, J & Elmqvist, N 2014, 'Visualization beyond the Desktop--the Next Big Thing', IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2014.82
• Towards more Visual Analytics in Learning Analytics
  
  Ritsos, PD & Roberts, JC 2014, 'Towards more Visual Analytics in Learning Analytics' Paper presented at Fifth EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), Eurographics Association, Swansea, UK, 9–10 June 2014, 3/01/01, pp. 61-65.
• Interactive visual analytics of hydrodynamic flux for the coastal zone
  
  George, RL, Robins, PE, Davies, AG, Ritsos, PD & Roberts, JC 2014, 'Interactive visual analytics of hydrodynamic flux for the coastal zone', Environmental Earth Sciences, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 3733-3766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3283-9
• Mixed Reality - A paradigm for perceiving synthetic spaces
  
  Ritsos, PD 2014, Mixed Reality - A paradigm for perceiving synthetic spaces. in M Reiche & U Gehmann (eds), Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World. Transcript Verlag, pp. 283-310.

2013

• Prototyping 3D haptic data visualizations
  
  Panëels, SA, Ritsos, PD, Rodgers, PJ & Roberts, JC 2013, 'Prototyping 3D haptic data visualizations', Computers and Graphics, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 179-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2013.01.009
• Interpreting in Virtual Reality: designing and developing a 3D virtual world to prepare interpreters and their clients for professional practice
  
  Braun, S, Slater, C, Gittins, R, Ritsos, PD & Roberts, JC 2013, Interpreting in Virtual Reality: designing and developing a 3D virtual world to prepare interpreters and their clients for professional practice. in D Kiraly, S Hansen-Schirra & K Maksymski (eds), New Prospects and Perspectives for Educating Language Mediators. Tuebingen : Gunter Narr, pp. 93-120.
• Training Interpreters Using Virtual Worlds
  
  Ritsos, PD, Gittins, R, Braun, S, Slater, C & Roberts, JC 2013, Training Interpreters Using Virtual Worlds. in Transactions on Computational Science XVIII. vol. 7848, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38803-3_2

2012

• Using Virtual Reality for Interpreter-mediated Communication and Training
  
  Ritsos, PD, Gittins, R, Roberts, JC, Braun, S & Slater, C 2012, Using Virtual Reality for Interpreter-mediated Communication and Training. in Proceedings of International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW’12). IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 191-198. https://doi.org/10.1109/CW.2012.34

2019

• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Event)
  Late-Breaking Work Programme Committee
  2019
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Annual Conference in Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) (Event)
  Programme and Organising Committee
  2019
  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)
• Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) (Event)
  2019
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality (VR) (Event)
  2019
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS) (Event)
  2019
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (Event)
  2019
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2018

• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Event)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Annual Conference in Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) (Event)
  Programme Committee
  2018
  Activity: Membership of committee (Chair)
• Computers and Education (Journal)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Journal)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS) (Event)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (Event)
  Programme Committee
  2018
  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)
• IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (Event)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• International Conference on HCI with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) (Event)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI) (Event)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Pervasive Computing (Journal)
  2018
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2017

• Co-Investigator: Water4Cities - Holistic Surface Water and Groundwater Management for Sustainable Cities (H2020-EU.1.3.3.)
  The Water4Cities project aims to develop the necessary models and associated platform that will enable water providers and relevant stakeholders to a) monitor in real-time the urban water resources; b) support their decisions for optimal urban water management causing minimal environmental impact and c) involve policy makers, corporations and the public to provide the support for sound and balanced decision-making.
  
  1 Mar 2017 – 28 Feb 2021
  Links: http://www.water4cities.eu/
  Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation (Lecturer)
• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Event)
  2017
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Annual Conference in Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) (Event)
  Programme Committee
  2017
  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)
• Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) (Event)
  2017
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2016

• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Event)
  2016
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Computers and Education (Journal)
  2016
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) (Event)
  2016
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Journal)
  2016
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2015

• Computers and Education (Journal)
  2015
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (Event)
  2015
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2014

• IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (Event)
  2014
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (External organisation)
  Member
  2014
  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)
• Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (Journal)
  2014
  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)

2008

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (External organisation)
  2008 →
  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)

2002

• Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) (External organisation)
  2002 →
  Activity: Membership of committee (Member)

• KESS II Phd with Cognitive Edge Ltd- BUK272

In addition to his research and teaching activities, Panos actively contributes to the the scientific community, reviewing papers for journals and international conferences, and serving on various program committees of scientific events.

You can find more information about him on his personal page at pdritsos.com.