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

    3D visualisations Should Not be Displayed Alone – Encouraging a Need for Multivocality in Visualisation

    Roberts, J. C., Mearman, J., Butcher, P., Al-Maneea, H. M. A. & Ritsos, P. D., Sept 2021. 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  2. Published

    A Cost-Effective Virtual Environment for Simulating and Training Powered Wheelchairs Manoeuvres

    Headleand, C., Day, T., Pop, S., Ritsos, P. D. & John, N., Apr 2016, Medicine meets virtual reality 22: Proceedings of NextMed/MMVR22. IOS Press, p. 134-141 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; vol. 220).

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

  3. Published

    A Framework for Modelling Human Emotion

    Edwards, S. & Ritsos, P. D., 5 May 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  4. Published

    A method for Critical and Creative Visualisation Design-Thinking

    Roberts, J. C., Alnjar, H., Owen, A. & Ritsos, P. D., Oct 2023, Poster publications at IEEE VIS 2023: Visualization & Visual Analytics: IEEE VIS 2023 Posters. Cao, N., Kozlikova, B., Xia, J. & Willett, W. (eds.). IEEE Computer Society Press, 2 p.

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

  5. Published

    Alternative Representations of 3D-Reconstructed Heritage Data

    Miles, H. C., Wilson, A., Labrosse, F., Tiddeman, B., Griffiths, S., Edwards, B., Ritsos, P. D., Mearman, J. W., Moller, K., Karl, R. & Roberts, J. C., 24 Nov 2015, In: Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 9, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Apple Vision Pro headset: what does it do and will it deliver?

    Ritsos, P. D. & Butcher, P., 6 Jun 2023, The Conversation.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  7. Published

    Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents: Second International Symposium, ALIA 2016, Birmingham, UK, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Lewis, P. (ed.), Headleand, C., Battle, S. (ed.) & Ritsos, P. D. (ed.), Apr 2018, 149 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science)

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  8. Published

    Building Immersive Data Visualizations for the Web

    Butcher, P. & Ritsos, P. D., 2017, Proceedings of International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW’17). IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 142-145

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

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Contextual network navigation to provide situational awareness for network administrators

    Gray, C., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 2 Nov 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  11. Published

    Creating Explanatory Visualizations of Algorithms for Active Learning

    Roberts, J. C., Jackson, J., Headleand, C. & Ritsos, P. D., 2016. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  12. Published

    Creating Small Unit Based Glyph Visualisation

    Jackson, J., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., Oct 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  13. 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

  14. Published

    Critical Thinking Sheet (CTS) for Design Thinking in Programming Courses

    Roberts, J. C. & Ritsos, P. D., 27 May 2020, Eurographics 2020 - Education Papers. Romero, M. & Sousa Santos, B. (eds.). The Eurographics Association, p. 17-23 7 p. (Eurographics - Education Papers).

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

  15. Published

    Critical Thinking Sheets: Encouraging critical thought and sketched implementation design

    Roberts, J. C. & Ritsos, P. D., May 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  16. Published

    DUVis: A visual analytics tool for supporting a trans-disciplinary project

    Rigby, A., Butcher, P., Bellini, R., Coughlan, P., McNabola, A. & Ritsos, P. D., 21 Jul 2023, Posters presented at the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS 2023).

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

  17. Published

    Degree pictures: Visualizing the university student journey

    Gray, C., Ritsos, P. D. & Perkins, D., 18 May 2020, In: Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. 45, 4, p. 568-578

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Developing a formative visual feedback report for data brokering

    Varghese, D., Roberts, J. C. & Ritsos, P. D., 10 Aug 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOtherpeer-review

  19. Accepted/In press

    Don’t Pull the Balrog - Lessons Learned from Designing Wizualization: a Magic inspired Data Analytics System in XR

    Butcher, P., Batch, A., Ritsos, P. D. & Elmqvist, N., 7 Aug 2023, (Accepted/In press) HybridUI (ISMAR 2023): 1st Workshop on Hybrid User Interfaces: Complementary Interfaces for Mixed Reality Interaction.

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

  20. Published

    Evaluating Models for Virtual Forestry Generation and Tree Placement in Games

    Williams, B., Ritsos, P. D. & Headleand, C., 12 Sept 2019, Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC). The Eurographics Association

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

  21. E-pub ahead of print

    Evaluating View Management for Situated Visualization in Web-based Handheld AR

    Batch, A., Shin, S., Liu, J., Butcher, P., Ritsos, P. D. & Elmqvist, N., 27 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Computer Graphics Forum. 42, 3, p. 349-360 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Experience and Guidance for the use of Sketching and low-fidelity Visualisation-design in teaching

    Roberts, J. C., Ritsos, P. D. & Headleand, C., 1 Oct 2017, Pedagogy of Data Visualization Workshop, IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS), Phoenix, Arizona.

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

  23. Published

    Exploratory Visualization through Copy, Cut and Paste

    Roberts, J. C., Walker, R., Roberts, L., Laramee, R. S. & Ritsos, P. D., 2014. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  24. Published

    Five Design-Sheets: Creative Design and Sketching for Computing and Visualisation

    Roberts, J. C., Headleand, C. & Ritsos, P. D., 6 Jun 2017, 1 ed. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 333 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  25. Published

    Immersive Analytics with WebVR and Google Cardboard

    Putcher, P. W. S., Roberts, J. C. & Ritsos, P. D., 2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  26. Published

    Immersive visualisation of COVID-19 UK travel and US happiness data

    Williams, R., Farmer, D., Roberts, J. C. & Ritsos, P. D., Oct 2020.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  27. Published

    Interactive Oceanographic Visualization using spatially-aggregated Parallel Coordinate Plots: In EuroVis 2014 Poster

    George, R., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 9 Jun 2014. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  28. Published

    Interactive visual analytics of hydrodynamic flux for the coastal zone

    George, R. L., Robins, P. E., Davies, A. G., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 7 May 2014, In: Environmental Earth Sciences. 71, 10, p. 3733-3766

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  29. Published

    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, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 2013, New Prospects and Perspectives for Educating Language Mediators. Kiraly, D., Hansen-Schirra, S. & Maksymski, K. (eds.). Tuebingen : Gunter Narr, p. 93-120 28 p.

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

  30. Published

    LUCST: A novel toolkit for Land Use Land Cover change assessment in SWAT+ to support flood management decisions

    Rigby, A., Butcher, P., Ritsos, P. D. & Patil, S., Oct 2022, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 156, 105469.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  31. 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

  32. Published

    One view is not enough: review of and encouragement for multiple and alternative representations in 3D and immersive visualisation

    Roberts, J. C., Butcher, P. & Ritsos, P. D., 3 Feb 2022, In: Computers. 11, 2, 23 p., 20.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Personal Visualisation for Learning

    Roberts, J. C., Headleand, C., Perkins, D. & Ritsos, P. D., 2015, p. 4.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  34. Published

    Prototyping 3D haptic data visualizations

    Panëels, S. A., Ritsos, P. D., Rodgers, P. J. & Roberts, J. C., 9 Feb 2013, In: Computers and Graphics. 37, 3, p. 179-192

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  35. Published

    RAMPVIS: Answering the Challenges of Building Visualisation Capabilities for Large-scale Emergency Responses

    Chen, M., Abdul-Rahman, A., Archambault, D., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A., Ritsos, P. D., Torsney-Weir, T., Turkay, C., Bach, B., Borgo, R., Brett, A., Fang, H., Jianu, R., Khan, S., Laramee, R. S., Nguyen, P. H., Reeve, R., Roberts, J. C., Vidal, F., Wang, Q., Wood, J. & Xu, K., Jun 2022, In: Epidemics. 39, 15 p., 100569.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  36. Published

    RAMPVIS: Answering the Challenges of Building Visualization Capabilities for Large-scale Emergency Responses

    Chen, M., Abdul-Rahman, A., Archambault, D., Dykes, J., Ritsos, P. D., Slingsby, A., Torsney-Weir, T., Turkay, C., Bach, B., Borgo, R., Brett, A., Fang, H., Jianu, R., Khan, S., Laramee, R. S., Matthews, L., Nguyen, P. H., Reeve, R., Roberts, J. C., Vidal, F., Wang, Q., Wood, J. & Xu, K., 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

  37. Published

    Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry

    Coughlan, P., Bellini, R., Bello-Dambatta, A., Dallison, R., Dreyer-Gibney, K., Gallagher, J., Harris, I., McNabola, A., Mitrovic, D., Murali, M., Novara, D., Patil, S., Rigby, A., Ritsos, P. D., Schestak, I., Singh, A., Walker, N. & Williams, P., Dec 2023, In: The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 59, 4, p. 556-584 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  38. 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

  39. Published

    Sketching Designs Using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology

    Roberts, J. C., Headleand, C. & Ritsos, P. D., 12 Aug 2015, In: IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 22, 1, p. 419-428

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Smart Water Management for Cities

    Kenda, K., Rizou, S., Mellios, N., Kofinas, D., Ritsos, P. D., Senozetnik, M. & Laspidou, C., Aug 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOtherpeer-review

  41. 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

  42. Published

    Tangible papercraft visualisations for education

    Mearman, J., Butcher, P., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 4 May 2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  43. Published

    The Explanatory Visualization Framework: An active learning framework for teaching creative computing using explanatory visualizations

    Roberts, J. C., Ritsos, P. D., Jackson, J. R. & Headleand, C., Jan 2018, In: IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 24, 1, p. 971-801 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  44. Published

    The Implementation and Validation of a Virtual Environment for Training Powered Wheelchair Manoeuvres

    John, N., Pop, S., Day, T., Ritsos, P. D. & Headleand, C., 1 May 2018, In: IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 24, 5, p. 1867-1878

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  45. Published

    The Reality of the Situation: A Survey of Situated Analytics

    Shin, S., Batch, A., Butcher, P., Ritsos, P. D. & Elmqvist, N., 13 Jun 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 19 p., 37310839.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  46. 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

  47. Published

    Towards a Framework for Immersive Analytics on the Web

    Butcher, P., John, N. & Ritsos, P. D., Oct 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePosterpeer-review

  48. Published

    Towards a Tool for the Creation of Micro-visualisations

    Jackson, J. R., Ritsos, P. D. & Roberts, J. C., 12 Sept 2019, Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC). The Eurographics Association

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

  49. 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

  50. 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

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