Dr Panagiotis D. Ritsos

Senior Lecturer in Visualisation / Director of Research

Contact info

MEng PhD Essex, PgCert, FHEA

Visualization, Data, Modelling and Graphics (VDMG) research group, XReality, Visualization and Analytics (XRVA) lab

Office: Room 326, Dean Street 

My research interests revolve around he domain of human-computer interaction (HCI) and include mixed/augmented and virtual reality (XR), information visualization (InfoVis), visual analytics (VA) and wearable computing (WearComp). You can find more information below, in the research interests section.

I am 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 application domains, including Ocean Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Nuclear Sciences, Cultural Heritage, Learning and Education, Transport and Computer Games. 

  1. Published

    Training Interpreters Using Virtual Worlds

    Ritsos, P. D., Gittins, R., Braun, S., Slater, C. & Roberts, J. C., 2013, Transactions on Computational Science XVIII. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 7848. p. 21-40

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Creating storytelling visualizations for the Covid-19 pandemic using Feature-Action Design Patterns

    Ritsos, P. D., Khan, S., Jones, S., Bach, B., Meikle, J., Roberts, J. C., Wood, J. & Chen, M., Oct 2023, IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Pandemic and Emergency Responses 2023 (Vis4PandEmRes). IEEE

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  3. Published

    Synthetic visualizations in web-based mixed reality

    Ritsos, P. D., Mearman, J., Jackson, J. & Roberts, J. C., Oct 2017. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  4. Published

    Web-based Immersive Analytics in Handheld Augmented Reality

    Ritsos, P. D., Jackson, J. & Roberts, J. C., 2017.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  5. Published

    Mixed Reality - A paradigm for perceiving synthetic spaces

    Ritsos, P. D., Jan 2014, Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World. Reiche, M. & Gehmann, U. (eds.). Transcript Verlag, p. 283-310

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  6. Published

    Using Virtual Reality for Interpreter-mediated Communication and Training

    Ritsos, P. D., Gittins, R., Roberts, J. C., Braun, S. & Slater, C., 2012, Proceedings of International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW’12). IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 191-198

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  7. Published

    Sewn with Ariadne’s Thread – Visualizations for Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing

    Ritsos, P. D., Mearman, J. W., Van de Moere, A. & Roberts, J. C., 9 Nov 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  8. Published

    Community-driven generation of 3D and augmented-web content for archaeology

    Ritsos, P. D., Wilson, A. T., Miles, H. C., Williams, L. F., Tiddeman, B., Labrosse, F., Griffiths, S., Edwards, B., Möller, K., Karl, R. & Roberts, J. C., 6 Oct 2014, p. 25-28.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  9. Published

    Towards more Visual Analytics in Learning Analytics

    Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 9 Jun 2014, p. 61-65.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. Published

    The desktop is dead, long live the desktop! – Towards a multisensory desktop for visualization

    Ritsos, P. D., Mearman, J. W. & Roberts, J. C., 9 Nov 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper