Dr Chris Snider
PhD, MEng
Current positions
Associate Professor in Engineering Design
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Multi-modal XR prototyping for stakeholder interactions
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025
Zero Waste Prototyping
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2024 to 30/04/2026
21st Century Prototyping: Improving product prototyping through the integration of physical and digital workflow
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2023 to 31/12/2024
21st Century Prototyping: Improving product prototyping through the integration of physical and digital workflow
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2023 to 31/12/2024
21st Century Prototyping: Improving product prototyping through the integration of physical and digital workflow
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2023 to 31/12/2024
Thesis supervisions
Investigating and Characterising the Coupling of LEGO and 3D Printing
Supervisors
Improving participatory prototyping using mixed reality
Supervisors
A Methodology for the Remanufacturing of Prototypes
Supervisors
Improving Engineering Information Access and Knowledge Discovery through Model-Based Information Navigation
Supervisors
Anarchic Manufacturing
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/11/2021Mixed Reality in design prototyping
Design Studies
Characterising the Digital Twin
CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
Accelerating product prototyping through hybrid methods
Design Studies
Recent publications
28/01/2025Assessment of large language models for use in generative design of model based spacecraft system architectures
Journal of Engineering Design
6 degree of freedom positional object tracking for physical prototype digitisation
Proceedings of the Design Society
A comparative study of VR CAD modelling tools for design
Proceedings of the Design Society
A low-cost non-intrusive spatial hand tracking pipeline for product-process interaction
Proceedings of the Design Society
A proposed framework for data-driven human factors evaluation
DESIGN 2024
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Dr James Gopsill
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Dr Mark Goudswaard
Lecturer
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Professor Aydin Nassehi
Head of School
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering