Dr Christopher R Roast PhD
Associate Professor
- School of Computing and Digital Technologies
- Communication and Computing 香蕉视频 Centre
- Culture and Creativity 香蕉视频 Institute
Summary
Chris has worked in a variety of areas oriented to practical and applied research within computing and interaction design. He enjoys in the inherently cross-disciplinary nature of digital device and service design, and how digital technology can mediate the transition from users who are unfamiliar with a technology to users who effectively benefit from it. He has worked with a variety of other disciplines including: Product Design, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Robotics, Nursing, Education, etc.. His applied research focuses upon the usability of notations and tools for defining and controlling information artefacts; and the principles by which information artefact design can be characterised; and the design and development of visualisations;
He has an active interest in a number of areas including: VR and AR; Design for others; Sentiment Analysis; Non-trivial online form design, knowledge transfer and innovation.
About
Chris has worked in a variety of areas oriented to practical issues within interaction design. He is interested in the inherently cross-disciplinary nature of digital service and product design, and how digital technology mediates its effective use. Having completed a Masters in Design 香蕉视频 at the RCA, he went to work on an early interactive video training project at Imperial College of Science and Technology. This experience demonstrated a 'intelligent tutoring system' failing to co-ordinate user interaction with educational video content. This led to Chris's interest in HCI. He completed a PhD and The University of York attempting to capture concepts about good interaction design that could be applied generally and reasoned about formally. During that time he encountered the idea of Cognitive Dimensions of Notations, as a similar research thread motivated by psychology.
Chris started teaching towards the end of his PhD and has continued to teach undergraduates and post-graduates since.
While remaining research active, he has became more interested in applying his expertise and experience. Over the last ten years has been more involved in applied inter-disciplinary research. This has involved numerous collaborations and has resulted in an interest in knowledge transfer and innovation. He has worked on industry based projects of various sorts for the last six years. Chris has also been a knowledge transfer lead, encouraging and facilitating others in engaging in collaborative practiced based work.
External Examiner, Principal Lecturer
Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Programming; Programming Environments; Visualisation; Notations; Health Technology; Educational Technology; Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; Knowledge Exchange and Innovation.
Teaching
School of Computing and Digital Technologies
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Software Engineering
Professional Practice
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- Communication and Computing 香蕉视频 Centre
- Culture and Creativity 香蕉视频 Institute
- Communication and Computing 香蕉视频 Centre
- Cultural Communication and Computing 香蕉视频 Institute
KTP academic lead: Bloor and Co. (2018-20); Infraglo Ltd. (2018-20); Balmoral Tanks (2018-19).
Academic lead: "SQLView" (Innovate UK. Learning Light Ltd., 2017-2018) "EQUS - Enhancing the Quality and Usability of Spreadsheets" (I and II) (SBRI, 2014-16); "KITE - The evaluation of RAPTOR" (JISC, 2012); "Early Bird IP" (Intellectual Property Office, 2012); "CoDeX " (JISC eContent, 2011); "Interactive Energy Awareness Tool, Concept Design" (Ask4, 2011); "Collaborative Systems for Digital Media Production" (ZOO Digital, 2008-10).
Regional Development: Sheffield Innovation Programme; Innovation Futures (II); Innovation Futures.
Understanding Queries using Visualisation - SQLview supported by Innovate UK in collaboration with Learning Light.
EQUS Enhancing the Quality and Usability of Spreadsheets supported by SBRI in collaboration with Learning Light
Under the auspices of regional development, we have collaborated with numerous SME's mainly within the Sheffield City Region. Noteworthy cases include: 3Squared, Openwave, M3, Fuel Trading, Learning Light, Very Viz, Ask 4, Zoo Digital, WANDisco.
Understanding Queries using Visualisation - SQLview supported by Innovate UK in collaboration with Learning Light.
EQUS Enhancing the Quality and Usability of Spreadsheets supported by SBRI in collaboration with Learning Light.
Under the auspices of regional development, we have collaborated with numerous SME's mainly within the Sheffield City Region. Noteworthy cases include: 3Squared, Openwave, M3, Fuel Trading, Learning Light, Very Viz, Ask 4, Zoo Digital, WANDisco.
Publications
Journal articles
Moyana, T., Roast, C., & Maswera, T. (2024). . European Conference on e-Learning, 23 (1), 477-486.
Kaddoura, S., Itani, M., & Roast, C. (2021). . Applied Sciences, 11 (11).
Dobson, S., Sukumar, A., Ridley-Duff, R., Roast, C., & Abell, B. (2015). . Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, 12 (1), 42-56.
Fish, A., Khazaei, B., & Roast, C. (2011). . Journal of visual languages and computing, 22 (5), 340-364.
Green, T.R.G., Blandford, A.E., Church, L., Roast, C.R., & Clarke, S. (2006). . Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 17 (4), 328-365.
Roast, C., Ritchie, I., & Thomas, S. (2002). . Communications of the ACM, 45 (10), 109-111.
Hawley, M.S., O'Neill, P., Webb, L.H., & Roast, C. (2002). A provision framework and data logging tool to aid the prescription of electronic assistive technology. Technology and Disability, 14 (2), 43-52.
Khazaei, B., Siddiqi, J., Osborn, R., & Roast, C. (1998). . Information and software technology, 40 (14), 823-829.
Roast, C. (1998). Designing for delay in interactive information retrieval. Interacting with Computers, 10 (1), 87-104.
Roast, C.R., & Siddiqi, J.I. (1997). Usability requirements as specification constraints: an example of WYSIWYG. IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering, 144 (2), 101.
Siddiqi, J.I., & Roast, C.R. (1997). Viscosity as a metaphor for measuring modifiability. IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering, 144 (4), 215.
Siddiqi, J.I., Morrey, I.C., Roast, C.R., & Ozcan, M.B. (1997). Annals of Software Engineering, 3, 131-155.
Siddiqi, J.I., & Roast, C.R. (1997). Editorial: The role of formality in HCI issues in software engineering. IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering, 144 (4), 193.
Roast, C., & Siddiqi, J. (1997). Using the template model to analyse directory visualisation. Interacting with Computers, 9 (2), 155-172.
(1997). Full length article. Interacting with Computers, 9 (2), 105-110.
Ritchie, I., & Roast, C. (n.d.). Waiting for the web. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1796.
Ritchie, I., & Roast, C. (n.d.). Performance, usability and the web. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 5.
Conference papers
Kasturi, S., Shenfield, A., & Roast, C. (2024). . Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces.
Kasturi, S., Shenfield, A., Roast, C., Le Page, D., & Broome, A. (2024). . In Naik, N., Jenkins, P., Grace, P., Yang, L., & Prajapat, S. (Eds.) The 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 6 September 2023 - 8 September 2023 (pp. 170-181). Cham: Springer:
Boisvert, C., Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2021). . In PPIG 2020, Online, 30 November 2020 - 2020.
Roast, C. (2020). . In The European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group Conference (EuSpRIG 2019), London, UK, 11 July 2019 - 12 July 2019 (pp. 115-126). EuSpRIG European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group:
Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2019). . Proceedings of the 12th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2019, IS 2019, 35-42.
Boisvert, C., Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2019). . End-User Development : 7th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2019, Hatfield, UK, July 10鈥12, 2019, Proceedings, 11553 (11553), 183-190.
Roast, C., Uruchurtu, E., & Maswera, T. (2019). . IADIS International Conference e-Society 2019.
Uruchurtu, E., Roast, C., & Maswera, T. (2018). . In 13th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ECIE 2018, Aveiro; Portugal, 20 September 2018 - 21 September 2018 (pp. 823-830). Academic Conferences and Publishing International:
Itani, M., Roast, C., & Al-Khayatt, S. (2017). . Procedia Computer Science, 117, 129-136.
Itani, M., Roast, C., & Al-Khayatt, S. (2017). . In 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), (pp. 64-69). IEEE:
Roast, C., Leitao, R., & Gunning, M. (2016). . In Uhomoibhi, J., Costagilola, G., Zvacek, S., & McLaren, B. (Eds.) CSEDU 2016 : 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, (pp. 383-390). SCITEPRESS:
Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2016). . In Cornejo, R., & Mayora Ibarra, O. (Eds.) MexIHC '16 : 6th Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. ACM:
Majnu, A., Bates, C., & Roast, C. (2016). . In Proceedings of the British HCI Conference 2016. BCS / ACM:
Roast, C., Leitao, R., & Gunning, M. (2016). . In International Conference on Computer Supported Education (2016), Rome, Italy, 21 April 2016 - 23 April 2016.
Phelan, I., Arden, M., Garcia, C., & Roast, C. (2015). . In H枚llerer, T., Interrante, V., Lecuyer, A., & Swan, J.E.I.I. (Eds.) 2015 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR) , Arles, France, 23-27 March, 2015, Proceedings, (pp. 353-354). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE:
Liang, S., & Roast, C. (2014). . In Stephanidis, C. (Ed.) HCI International 2014 - Posters鈥 Extended Abstracts : International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, (pp. 607-612). Springer: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07857-1_107
Leit茫o, R., & Roast, C. (2014). . In 9th Workshop on Mathematical User Interfaces, Coimbra, Portugal, 10 July 2014.
Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2013). . In Collazos, C., Liborio, A., & Rusu, C. (Eds.) Human Computer Interaction : 6th Latin American Conference, CLIHC 2013, Carrillo, Costa Rica, December 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, (pp. 47-54). Springer Verlag: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03068-5
Christopher, R., & Xiaohui, Z. (2012). . In Cowan, B., Bowers, C., Beale, R., & Baber, C. (Eds.) HCI 2012 : 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, 12 September 2012 - 14 September 2012 (pp. 274-279). Birmingham UK: BISL:
Roast, C. (2012). . In Human-centered software engineering : 4th International Conference, HCSE 2012, Toulouse, France, October 2012, Proceedings, (pp. 130-145). Springer
Roast, C., Dearden, A., & Uruchurtu, E. (2011). . In Proceeding of IHC & CLIHC 2011 : Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the 5th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, (pp. 149-156). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Brazilian Computer Society / ACM
Roast, C., Uruchurtu, E., & Dearden, A. (2011). . In Psychology of Porgramming Interest Group Annual Conference, University of York, 6 September 2011 - 8 September 2011.
Uruchurtu, E., Lockley, E., Roast, C., Keefe, T., & Williams, N. (2010). Understanding user requirements and expectations of digital learning resources. Workshop Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2010, 158-166.
Gancet, J., Motard, E., Naghsh, A., Roast, C., Arancon, M.M., & Marques, L. (2010). User interfaces for human robot interactions with a swarm of robots in support to firefighters. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2846-2851.
Naghsh, A., & Roast, C. (2009). . In HCI 2009 Conference, 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction, Cambridge, 1 September 2009 - 5 September 2009.
Uruchurtu, E., Lockley, E., Roast, C., & De Bleecker, I. (2009). . In 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Bonn, Germany, 15 September 2009 - 18 September 2009.
Uruchurtu, E., Lockley, E., Roast, C., & De Bleecker, I. (2009). Usability evaluation of OpenWeb transcoding. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.
Williams, N., & Roast, C. (2009). . In Understanding the creative conversation: modeling to engagement, Berkeley Art Museum and UC Berkeley, 27 October 2009.
England, D., Hornecker, E., Roast, C., Romero, P., Fergus, P., & Marshall, P. (2009). Whole body interaction. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 4815-4818.
Naghsh, A., & Roast, C. (2008). . In 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Lund, Sweden, 20 October 2008 - 22 October 2008.
Naghsh, A.M., Gancet, J., Tanoto, A., & Roast, C. (2008). . In 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communications, Munich, Germany, 1 August 2008 - 3 August 2008.
Fish, A., Khazaei, B., & Roast, C. (2008). . In Gulliksen, J., Harning, M.B., Palanque, P., Van der Veer, G.C., & Wesson, J. (Eds.) Engineering interactive systems : EIS 2007 Joint Working Conferences, EHCI 2007, DSV-IS 2007, HCSE 2007, Salamanca, Spain, March 2007, selected papers, (pp. 413-428). Berlin: Springer
Roast, C.R., & Khazaei, B. (2007). . In Interactive systems: design, specification, and verification, (pp. 109-122). Berlin: Springer:
Dearden, A., Lauener, A.M., Slack, F., Roast, C.R., & Cassidy, S. (2006). . In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Participatory design: Expanding boundaries in design, Trento, Italy, 1 August 2006 - 5 August 2006 (pp. 67-76). New York: ACM Press:
Roast, C., Dearden, A., & Khazaei, B. (2005). . In Fincher, S., Markopoulos, P., Moore, D., & Ruddle, R. (Eds.) People and Computers Xviii - Design for Life, (pp. 297-313). Springer:
Roast, C. (2005). Viewing visual web site design in context. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.
Wild, P.J., Johnson, P., Roast, C., & Czerwinski, M. (2004). The temporal aspects of work for HCI. CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1735-1736.
Roast, C.R., O'Neill, P., & Hawley, M. (2002). . In Keats, S., Clarkson, P.J., Langdon, P., & Robinson, P. (Eds.) Universal access and assistive technology. Springer
Blackwell, A., Robinson, P., Roast, C., & Green, T. (2002). Cognitive models of programming-like activity. CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computer systems - CHI '02.
Blackwell, A., Robinson, P., Roast, C., & Green, T. (2002). Cognitive models of programming-like activity. CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 910-911.
Blackwell, A.F., Britton, C., Cox, A., Green, T.R.G., Gurr, C., Kadoda, G., ... Young, R.M. (2001). Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (pp. 325-341). Springer Berlin Heidelberg:
O'Neill, P., Roast, C., & Hawley, M. (2000). Evaluation of scanning user interfaces using real-time-data usage logs. Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies, 137-141.
Roast, C.R., & Siddiqi, J.I. (1997). Towards a framework for managing interface delay. Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics, 21 (A), 745-748.
Roast, C.R., & Siddiqi, J.I. (1995). Using the template model to analyse interface specifications. In Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics, (pp. 483-488). Elsevier:
Roast, C. (1995). Modelling interaction with distributed information so much information and so little time. IEE Colloquium (Digest), (223).
Roast, C.R., & Harrison, M.D. (1994). User Centred System Modelling using the Template Model. DSV-IS, 401-412.
Roast, C.R., Khazaei, B., & Siddiqi, J.I. Formal comparisons of program modification. Proceeding 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages, 165-171.
Graham, T.C.N., Curzon, P., Doherty, G., Palanque, P., Potter, R., Roast, C., & Smith, S.P. Usability and Computer Games: Working Group Report. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (pp. 265-268). Springer Berlin Heidelberg:
Roast, C., Patterson, D., & Hardman, V. . In 16th International Conference e-Society 2018 Proceedings, (pp. 231-238). IADIS:
Roast, C.R., & Siddiqi, J.I. Relating knock-on viscosity to software modifiability. Proceedings Sixth Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 222-227.
Books
Collazos, C., Liborio, A., & Rusu, C. (Eds.). (2013). Human Computer Interaction. Springer International Publishing.
Pirhonen, A., Saariluoma, P., Isom盲ki, H., & Roast, C. (Eds.). (2005). Future Interaction Design. Springer-Verlag.
(n.d.). Introducing the challenges of future interaction design. Springer-Verlag.
Theses / Dissertations
Featherstone, M. (2022). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C.
Featherstone, M. (2022). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C.
Liang, S. (2018). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C.
Liang, S. (2018). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C.
Itani, M. (2018). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C., & Al-Khayatt, S.
Itani, M. (2018). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C., & Al-Khayatt, S.
Thomas, S.F. (2008). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Hopkins, L., Green, G., Steggle, M., Roast, C., & Ritchie, I.
O'Neill, P.R. (2006). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roast, C., Siddiqi, J., & Hawley, M.
Hohl, M. (2006). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Biggs, S., Press, M., Roast, C., & Rust, C.
Internet Publications
Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2019). The mediated exploration of complex digital interaction design. [Document].
Presentations
Roast, C. (2024). Notation Design Pros and Cons. Presented at: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, University of Liverpool, UK
Roast, C. (2024). Notation Design Pros and Cons (AVI 2024 Tutorial). Presented at: 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Arenzano (Genoa), Italy
Roast, C. (2017). EQUS Public Presentation. Presented at: Sheffield
Roast, C. (2016). EQUS Presentation.
Roast, C. (2015). 鈥淗ow UK are you?鈥. Presented at: "How UK are you?", Sheffield
Posters
Davila Garcia, M.L., Soltani, H., Roast, C., & Danickova, E. (2023). DigiCP - Addressing Health Inequalities through the Digitalization of Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways. Presented at: Conference Healthcare Analytics and Artificial Intelligence 2023, Sheffield, UK
Datasets
Maher, I. (2023). Corpus of Arabic social media posts manually classed for sentiment analysis..
Other activities
Postgraduate supervision
Sha Liang: "ESTABLISHING DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR AUGMENTED REALITY FOR AGEING POPULATION"
Aathira Majnu: "Enhancing usability of non-trivial online forms using models"
Maher Itani: "SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND TEXT CATEGORIAZTION OF DIALECTAL ARABIC TEXT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS"
Simon Bowen: (2006-2009) ‘The instrumental use of Critical Design: A new human - centered design methodology’.
Michael Hohl: (2002-2006) ‘This is not here : connectedness, remote experiences and immersive telematic art’.
Xiaohui Zhang: (2009-2014) 'A User Perspective of Design for Context-Aware Adaption'
Peter O'Neil “An investigation into the enhancement of service prescription of integrated computerised systems for people with disabilities” CRC Studentship (1999).
Zhang, Xiaohui "Users' Perspectives of Design for Context-Aware Adaption" (2014).
Sha Liang “A Human Factors approach for Augmented Reality” (2018).
Maher M. Itani “Sentiment analysis of Arabic text in social networks” (2018).
Media
Chris is interested how our interaction with technology offers great opportunities and how they are often thwarted by misconceptions and complexities. Good design can make technology more accessible but often the actual complexity is badly hidden!
Chris has worked extensively with industry linking research activity with industry needs and innovation.
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