Charles Boisvert MSc, PGCFE
Senior Lecturer
Summary
I am a Senior Lecturer in the school, teaching data analysis and project management. I am also an experienced Front-End developer, particularly of process visualisation tools. I investigate technologies that help communicate ideas on processing data, to understand and translate the field and make it accessible for every user.
About
I apply data visualisation to various projects, including research on visual functional programming tools (tool visible here: https://boisvert.me.uk/openpiping) and water pollution visualisation in the Watersense project, along with Aquasensor (https://aquasensor.co.uk)
Teaching
School of Computing and Digital Technologies
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Design of Visual Functional Programming Tools
WaterSense
Smart Computing
Courses:
BSc Smart Computing
Modules:
Database Systems
Professional Computing Project
Research
I am currently involved in two strands of research. One is Computing Education, in which I create and evaluate tools, resources, and practices to improve the teaching of computing. This includes the visual functional tools project (Boisvert, Roast and Uruchurtu 2019, 2020).
The second is Open Data, which offers a host of science and engineering challenges. An example is the collaboration began in 2024 with Aquasensor, a company proposing sensing technology to monitor water quality, to develop data visualisation tools to facilitate public access and engagement with data.
Collaborators:
- Better With Data Society
- Computing in Schools
Publications
Key Publications
Boisvert, C., Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2019). Open Piping: Towards an Open Visual Workflow Environment. End-User Development : 7th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2019, Hatfield, UK, July 10–12, 2019, Proceedings, 11553 (11553), 183-190. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_14
Boisvert, C. (2019). Teaching relational database fundamentals: a lack-of-progress report. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Education Practice - CEP '19. http://doi.org/10.1145/3294016.3294031
Boisvert, C., Domdouzis, K., & License, J. (2018). A comparative analysis of student SQL and relational database knowledge using automated grading tools. Simposio Internacional de Informática Educativa (SIIE) 2018. http://doi.org/10.1109/SIIE.2018.8586684
Love, M., Boisvert, C., Uruchurtu, E., & Ibbotson, I. (2016). Nifty with data: can a business intelligence analysis sourced from open data form a nifty assignment? In ITiCSE '16 : Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ACM
Adshead, D., Boisvert, C., Love, D., & Spencer, P. (2015). Changing culture : educating the next computer scientists. ACM Proceedings - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 33-38. http://doi.org/10.1145/2729094.2742610
Korhonen, A., Naps, T., Boisvert, C., Crescenzi, P., Karavirta, V., Mannila, L., ... Shaffer, C.A. (2013). Requirements and design strategies for open source interactive computer science ebooks. ITiCSE-WGR 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 53-72. http://doi.org/10.1145/2543882.2543886
Boisvert, C.R. (2009). A visualisation tool for the programming process. Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 328-332. http://doi.org/10.1145/1562877.1562976
Boisvert, C. (2006). Web animation to communicate iterative development. Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 173-177. http://doi.org/10.1145/1140124.1140171
Conference papers
Boisvert, C. (2021). Improving the Usability of Visual Functional Programming Tools. In PPIG 2021 32nd Annual Workshop, Online, 21 June 2021 - 25 June 2021. https://www.ppig.org/papers/2021-ppig-32nd-dc-boisvert/
Boisvert, C. (2021). An Iterative Development Pattern to Learn Notional Machine and Programming Practices. In PPIG 2021, Virtual, 21 June 2021 - 25 June 2021. https://www.ppig.org/papers/
Boisvert, C. (2021). Machine Notionnelle et Pratiques de la Programmation: Mieux Apprendre avec le Développement Progressif. In EIAH'2021, 7 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. Association des Technologies de l’Information pour l’Education et la Formation: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03241694
Boisvert, C., Roast, C., & Uruchurtu, E. (2021). Designing an Open Visual Workflow Environment. In PPIG 2020, Online, 30 November 2020 - 2020. https://ppig.org/papers/2020-ppig-31st-boisvert/
Boisvert, C., Domdouzis, K., & Love, M. (2017). Un Environnement visuel de programmation par flux de donn´ees pour soutenir l’apprentissage de la science des donn´ees. In Atelier "Apprentissage de la pensée informatique de la maternelle à l’Université : recherches, pratiques et méthodes", Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain (EIAH 2017) Conférence, Strasbourg, France, 6 June 2017 - 9 June 2017.
Boisvert, C., Domdouzis, K., & Love, M. (2017). An Open Workflow Environment to Support Learning Data Science. In Apprentissage Instrumente de l’Informatique, ORPHEE Rendez-Vous, Font-Romeu, France, 30 January 2017 - 2 February 2017.
Boisvert, C. (2004). eL-CID. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 36 (3), 253. http://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008085
Boisvert, C. Supporting program development comprehension by visualising iterative design. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2004. IV 2004, 717-722. http://doi.org/10.1109/iv.2004.1320221
Boisvert, C. Patterns for Entity-Relationship database concepts. ITiCSE'17 - Proceedings of the 2017 conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education.
Reports
Djelil, F., Boisvert, C., Peter, Y., Secq, Y., Broisin, J., & De La Higuera, C. (2017). Vers une massification de l’apprentissage instrumenté de l’informatique, et une intégration des instruments et de leur évaluation. Orphée, reseau de l'e-éducation. http://atief.fr/content/grands-challenges
Presentations
Boisvert, C., Domdouzis, K., & Love, M. (n.d.). An Open Workflow Environment to Support Learning Data Science. Presented at: Apprentissage Instrumente de l’Informatique, Font-Romeu (France), 2017
Other publications
Domdouzis, K., & Boisvert, C. (2017). Normalise and ER discussion. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfquX_q7lCM