Peter Rodgers

Metro Map Layout

I have been awarded a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship to work in collaboration with ITIS holdings. This research will develop automatic techniques for drawing public transport schematics, sometimes called the metro map layout problem. In particular we will develop schematic layout systems suitable for smart phones, so potentially helping travellers navigate on public transport systems. The fellowship will occupy 66% of my time, starts in November 2009 and lasts three years.

Euler Diagrams

Try the 3 Circle Venn Diagram Applet, which draws approximately area proportional diagrams. Implemented by Stirling Chow of the University of Victoria, Canada and myself. A version is also hosted at the University of Victoria.

The research project Visualization with Euler Diagrams is developing new techniques for drawing Euler diagrams. This is in collaboration with the University of Brighton. It is funded by the EPSRC.

Graph Drawing Techniques

I have developed methods for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of graph drawing techniques, and applied them in several application areas, including WWW mapping and Software Visualization.

Reasoning With Diagrams

I was principal investigator on this project looking at visual methods for representing constraint based languages, funded by the EPSRC. For more information Visit the Reasoning with Diagrams home page. Others at the University of Kent who worked on the project include the researcher Octavian Patrascoiu and co-investigator Simon Thompson. The project was in collaboration with the University of Brighton.