Chris Evans

Teaching
I lead a combined undergraduate/postgraduate module in Interaction Design (COMP3012/GC25). I also teach Human-Computer Interaction as part of a number of modules in the Department of Computer Science. I teach two modules on the MSc in Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Design and Persuasive Games.
Research
My current pedagogical research is in technology-enhanced learning including elearning, interface design, interactivity, social media, and innovative educational technologies.
Brief biography
I am a Senior Teaching Fellow in University College London's Interaction Centre (UCLIC). I am known for use of innovative learning technologies. I was nominated for a National Teaching Fellowship Award and received a commendation from the Higher Education Academy in e-Tutor of the Year. Before joining UCL, I worked at Brunel University London, the Open University and Goldsmiths University of London. I obtained my PhD in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.
I have previously received the Innovative Teaching Award (Student Led Teaching) and the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
I am chair of the annual international conference eLearning 2.0 concerning technology-enhanced learning and social media. My current research is in educational technology. I started out doing research in logic and artificial intelligence, moving into multimedia computing and technology-enhanced learning.
Publications
Journal Publications
Erkan, I., & Evans, C. (2016a). The influence of eWOM in social media on consumers' purchase intentions: An extended approach to information adoption. Computers in Human Behavior, 61, 47-55.
Erkan, I. and Evans, C. (2016b). Social media or shopping websites? The influence of eWOM on consumers' online purchase intentions. Journal of Marketing Communications, pp.1-17.
Evans, C. (2013). Twitter for teaching: can social media be used to enhance the process of learning? British Journal of Educational Technology 45(5), 902-915. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12099.
Evans, C., & Palacios, L. (2011). Interactive self-assessment questions within a virtual environment. International Journal of E-Adoption, 3(2), 1-10. doi:10.4018/jea.2011040101
Evans, C. (2008). The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education. Computers & Education, 50(2), 491-498. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2007.09.016
Evans, C., & Gibbons, N. J. (2007). The interactivity effect in multimedia learning. Computers & Education, 49(4), 1147-1160. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2006.01.008
Gibbons, N. J., Evans, C., Payne, A. M., Shah, K., & Griffin, D. K. (2004). Computer simulations improve university instructional laboratories. Cell Biology Education, 3(4), 263-269. doi:10.1187/cbe.04-06-0040
Evans, C., Gibbons, N. J., Shah, K., & Griffin, D. K. (2004). Virtual learning in the biological sciences: pitfalls of simply "putting notes on the web". Computers & Education, 43(1-2), 49-61. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2003.12.004
Evans, C., & Sabry, K.. (2003). Evaluation of the interactivity of web-based learning systems: principles and process. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 40(1), 89-99. doi:10.1080/1355800032000038787
Gibbons, N. J., Evans, C., & Griffin, D. K. (2003). Learning to karyotype in the university environment: a computer-based virtual laboratory class (KaryoLab) designed to rationalize time for the tutor/researcher and to encourage more students to engage in cytogenetics. Cytogenet Genome Research, 101(1), 1-4. doi:10.1159:000073409
Evans, C., & Fan, J. (2002). Lifelong learning through the virtual university. Journal of Campus Wide Information Systems, 19(4), 127-134. doi:10.1108/10650740210438810
Evans, C., & Edwards, M. (1999). Navigational interface design for multimedia courseware. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 8(2), 151-174.
Evans, C. (1999). Oppression net. Journal of Economic Affairs, 20(1), 21-28. doi:10.1111/1468-0270.00202
Evans, C. (1999). You say you want a revolution. Index on Censorship 28(5), 106-110. doi:10.1080/03064229908536662
Conference Publications
Evans, C., & Buqawa, A. (2012). Twitter for Teaching: can social media be used to enhance learning? In EDULEARN11 Proceedings. Spain: International Association of Technology, Education and Development. Retrieved from http://iated.org/
Evans, C. (2010). Feedback on student assignments: audio as an alternative to typing. In MCIS 2010. Tel-Aviv, Israel: AIS. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2010/28
Evans, C., & Palacios, L. (2010). Interactive self-assessment questions within a virtual environment. In Proc. Third International Conference on Innovations in Learning for the Future 2010: e-Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Evans, C. (2010). Interactive feedback in the classroom using SMS messages. In IADIS International Conference IADIS e-Learning. Rome, Italy.
Evans, C., & Palacios, L. A. (2010). Using audio to enhance learner feedback. In International Conference on Education and Management Technology (ICEMT). Cairo, Egypt. doi:10.1109/ICEMT.2010.5657683
Evans, C. (2008). The effectiveness of interactive self-assessment in e-learning systems. In Proceedings e-Learning 2008 (pp.435-442). Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Evans, C. (2007). The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education. In Biennial Conference on Computer Assisted Learning (CAL 07). Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Evans, C., Baldwin, L. P., & Sabry, K. (2002). Interactivity in information systems for web-based learning. In 7th Annual Conference of the UK Academy for Information Systems (UK AIS) (pp. 63-71). Leeds, UK.
Evans, C., & Sabry, K. (2002). The evaluation of interactivity in web-based systems. In Human Computer Interaction 2002 (pp. 179-182). London, UK.
Evans, C., & Fan, J. (2001). Searching for best practice: distance education through virtual learning environments. In 10th European Distance Education Network (pp. 29-35). Stockholm, Sweden.
Evans, C., & Kakas, T. (1992). Hypothetico-deductive reasoning. In Fifth Generation Computer Systems. Tokyo, Japan.
Evans, C. (1990). The macro-event calculus: representing temporal granularity. In Pacific Rim International Conference on AI. Nagoya, Japan.
Evans, C. (1989). Negation-as-failure as an approach to the Hanks-McDermott problem. In Second International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. Monterrey, Mexico.
Books and Book Chapters
Evans, C., & Palacios, L. (2013). The Effect of Interactivity in e-Learning Systems. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Evans, C., & Palacios, L. (2010). Effectiveness of interactivity for enhanced undergraduate learning. In S. Mukerji, & P. Tripathi (Eds.), Cases on Transnational Learning and Technologically Enabled Environments (First edition, pp. 359-375). IGI Global.
Evans, C. (2002). Copyright and the Net. In D.Cummings (Ed.) The Internet: Brave New World? (pp. 19-38). Hodder & Stoughton.
PhD Students
I have supervised the following PhD students:
Afaf Buqawa (completed, December 2015)
Luis Palacios (completed, December 2012)
Nicola Gibbons (completed, November 2005)
Jing Fan (completed, October 2005)
Research Publications
Authors
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Publication
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Chris Evans, Y Wang | Are Captions in Video Tutorials a Bad Idea? | 2021 | Conference paper (text) |
S Snow, J Maguire, Chris Evans, A Vasilchenko, A Dix, A Wilde | Towards a Taxonomy of Video for HCI Education | 2019 | Chapter |
Chris Evans | It’s Me or the Video: can videos substitute for lectures in the flipped classroom? | 2018 | Conference paper (text) |
E Brotherhood, P Ball, PM Camic, Chris Evans, N Fox, C Murphy, F Walsh, J West, G Windle, S Billiald | Preparatory planning framework for Created Out of Mind: Shaping perceptions of dementia through art and science [version 1; referees: 2 approved] | 2017 | Wellcome Open Research, Journal article |
Chris Evans | Flipping HCI | 2016 | EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ambient Systems Special Issue: AVI Workshop on HCI and the Educational Technology Revolution, Journal article |
I Erkan, Chris Evans | Social media or shopping websites? The influence of eWOM on consumers’ online purchase intentions | 2016 | Journal of Marketing Communications, Journal article |
I Erkan, Chris Evans | The influence of eWOM in social media on consumers' purchase intentions: An extended approach to information adoption | 2016 | Computers in Human Behavior, Journal article |
H Alboqami, W Al-Karaghouli, Y Baeshen, I Erkan, Chris Evans, A Ghoneim | Electronic word of mouth in social media: The common characteristics of retweeted and favourited marketer-generated content posted on Twitter | 2015 | International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising, Journal article |
L Palacios, Chris Evans | The Effect of Interactivity in e-Learning Systems | 2014 | Book |
Chris Evans, I Erkan | The Impacts of Electronic Word of Mouth in Social Media on Consumers' Purchase Intentions. | 2014 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans | Twitter for teaching: Can social media be used to enhance the process of learning? | 2014 | British Journal of Educational Technology, Journal article |
Chris Evans, L Palacios | Interactive self-assessment questions within a virtual environment | 2013 | Chapter |
Chris Evans, A Buquawa | Twitter for Teaching: can social media be used to enhance learning? | 2012 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, L Palacios | Virtual Environment | 2012 | Chapter |
Chris Evans, L Palacios | Interactive feedback in the classroom using SMS messages | 2011 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, L Palacios | Interactive self-assessment questions within a virtual environment | 2011 | International Journal of E-Adoption, Journal article |
L Palacios, Chris Evans | Effectiveness of interactivity for enhanced undergraduate learning | 2010 | Chapter |
Chris Evans | Feedback on student assignments: audio as an alternative to typing | 2010 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, L Palacios | Interactive self-assessment questions within a virtual environment | 2010 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, L Palacios | Using audio to enhance learner feedback | 2010 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans | The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education | 2008 | COMPUTERS & EDUCATION, Journal article |
Chris Evans, P Spencer | The effectiveness of interactive self-assessment in e-learning systems | 2008 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans | The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education | 2007 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, NJ Gibbons | The interactivity effect in multimedia learning | 2007 | COMPUTERS & EDUCATION, Journal article |
NJ Gibbons, Chris Evans, A Payne, K Shah, DK Griffin | Computer simulations improve university instructional laboratories | 2004 | Cell Biology Education, Journal article |
Chris Evans, NJ Gibbons, K Shah, DK Griffin | Virtual learning in the biological sciences: pitfalls of simply "putting notes on the Web" | 2004 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, N Gibbons, K Shah, DK Griffin | Virtual learning in the biological sciences: pitfalls of simply "putting notes on the web" | 2004 | Computers & Education, Journal article |
Chris Evans, K Sabry | Evaluation of the interactivity of Web-based learning systems: Principles and process | 2003 | INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL, Journal article |
NJ Gibbons, Chris Evans, DK Griffin | Learning to karyotype in the university environment: a computer-based virtual laboratory class (KaryoLab) designed to rationalize time for the tutor/researcher and to encourage more students to engage in cytogenetics | 2003 | CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH, Journal article |
Chris Evans | Copyright and the Net | 2002 | Chapter |
Chris Evans, LP Baldwin, K Sabry | Interactivity in information systems for web-based learning | 2002 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, J Fan | Lifelong learning through the virtual university | 2002 | Journal of Campus Wide Information Systems, Journal article |
Chris Evans, K Sabry | The evaluation of interactivity in web-based systems | 2002 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, J Fan | Searching for best practice: distance education through virtual learning environments | 2001 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans, M Edwards | Navigational interface design for multimedia courseware | 1999 | Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal article |
Chris Evans | Oppression Net | 1999 | Journal of Economic Affairs, Journal article |
Chris Evans | You say you want a revolution | 1999 | Index on Censorship, Journal article |
Chris Evans, T Kakas | Hypothetico-deductive reasoning | 1992 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans | The macro-event calculus: representing temporal granularity | 1990 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans | Negation-as-failure as an approach to the Hanks-McDermott problem | 1989 | Conference paper (text) |
Chris Evans | Journal of Enterprise Information Management Special Issue: Social Media in Business and Education | 1900 | Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Journal (Full / Special issue) |