Dr Christopher J. Parker

  • Loughborough University
  • Lecturer, Engineering & Technology
  • United Kingdom

My co-authors include

MARYAM AHMED
Dr Simeon Gill
Steven Hayes

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My Publications

Why Crowdsourced information is as good as Professional Information (and why you should...

  • Ergonomics
  • May 2014
  • People need geographic information (such as Google Maps) to be accurate, reliable, and of high quality. Professional cartographers and data collectors have, since the maps' invention, produced this...

Why Designing in Teams Leeds To More Innovative Solutions

  • CoDesign
  • December 2015
  • To develop a way to create more effective solutions to problems in society, we need new and novel ways to encourage innovation in teams, building upon established design methods. While transport s...

A method to improve 3D Body Scanning's accuracy by standardising posture

  • Ergonomics
  • November 2016
  • Many people in industry and science want to use 3D Body Scanning to measure people quickly and accurately, taking hundreds of measurements just a few seconds. Yet industry and science need accuracy...

You won't believe what motivates Chinese people to shop for fashion

  • Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
  • May 2019
  • Shopping apps are effective when they operate in the way that people think, they put the content people want at the front, and they capitalise upon the customer's motivation to shop. Fashion retail...

How Crowdsourcing Helps Wheelchair Users Get Around

  • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • December 2014
  • Accessibility is a critical challenge facing wheelchair users and people with limited mobility. To find shops, restaurants, or attractions to visit they need clear information about the facilities ...

We Looked at Why People Want to Shop via Apps and Everyone is Talking About IT.

  • Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
  • September 2016
  • To develop more effective retail apps that encourage customers to buy items through their smartphones, the motivations of customers to engage with the apps needs to be understood. Only 12% of all o...

Body Shape Classification is flawed: the FFIT can classify a woman into more than one s...

  • Ergonomics
  • March 2021
  • Ergonomics and health practitioners wish to compare a population’s body shapes (e.g., hourglass, oval, or rectangle) to track health issues and design better-fitting garments. The Female Figure Ide...

Making 3D Body Scanning 4500% More Precise (finally better than hand measurement!)

  • Ergonomics
  • May 2021
  • Ever wanted to step into a booth, have a computer scan your body, and have a custom made set of jeans to fit your exact form? 3D Body scanning promises just that. But when 3D Body Scanners measure ...

We asked people about fashion shopping apps and guess what happened next

  • The Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
  • April 2022
  • Shopping apps are easy and enjoyable to use when their design aligns with the way people think and feel. But, designers and marketers have focused on creating apps for customers segregated by age a...

How to design virtual reality for fashion shopping

  • International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management
  • June 2020

How to Engage Fashion Retail with Virtual Reality: A Consumer Perspective

  • January 2020

How to design Fashion Retail Apps that increase profits

  • January 2018

How Measurements Change Between 3D Body Scans

  • October 2017

Key Measurements for Garment Construction are Missing from 3D Body Scanning Systems!

  • October 2017

Why Online Virtual Fit Platforms Are Inaccurate (and how we need to fix them)

  • October 2017

How to Collect Data Correctly with 3D Body Scanners

  • January 2016

How to accurately find the waist in 3D Body Scanning

  • October 2014

Why people want to use crowd sourced information? [Book Chapter]

  • January 2014

What is crowdsourced map data, and where it may go in the future?

  • Applied Ergonomics
  • November 2013

Non-Professional Information's use in Outdoor Sports

  • Applied Ergonomics
  • November 2013

How Crowd Sourced Information Builds Better Services

  • The Design Journal
  • June 2013

How Crowd Sourced Map Data is Used (and why it is so good)

  • Transactions in GIS
  • August 2012

How to design fashion apps that seduce the customer (and boost sales)