Qualifications

PhD, University of Nottingham, 2012
PGCE Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University, 2011
MSc Information Technology, University of Nottingham, 2004
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Personal Profile / Teaching Experience

Member of Digital Modelling Research Group
Member of Virtual Environments & Infrastructure Research Group

Teaching Experience

• Games Development Technologies & Game Engines.
• Computing languages including C, C#, C++, Javascript, AS3.
• User Interface Design & HCI.
• Research Methods
• Final year undergraduate and MSc project supervision
• PhD research projects supervision

Research Interests

• Sustainability & Built Environment: As my first degree is Architectural Engineering, I am interested in utilising new technologies and concepts to enhance the application of sustainability in the architectural design process; with particular interest in applying BIM (Building Information Modelling) concepts and methodologies in this process. This is expanding and building upon the work I have done in my research degree.
• Virtual Environments & Serious games: This is done with the use of games engines technology (like Unity 3D, C4, UDK, etc.) for the purpose of simulation, training, and education in particular.
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Representation; particularly using Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Data Mining (DM) techniques. This has been applied within the prototype developed in my research degree.
• Vision and Hearing Impairment Simulation Technologies: I have been involved with the University of Cambridge's Engineering Design Centre (EDC) in the development of vision and hearing impairment simulator.

Consultancy and other Professional Activity

2011: Consultancy for Skills Arena Website Usability and Accessibility Assessment, SkillsArena - Essex, UK
2005 - 2012: PhD Research, University of Nottingham

Publications

Sarhan A. ; Rutherford, P. (2011) "Environmental Design eTutor: Utilizing Games Technology for Environmental Design Education". Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings, Istanbul (Turkey) 16-19 September 2009

Goodman-Deane, J., Waller, S. Sarhan, A., Caldwell, N. and Clarkson P.J. (2011). "Simulation software: Providing insight into the effects of vision and hearing impairments". In: Proceedings of Include11, Helen Hamlyn Centre, London.

Sarhan, A.; Rutherford, P. (2009) "Embodied Game Agents in Environmental Design Education". Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings, Istanbul (Turkey) 16-19 September 2009

Sarhan A. and Rutherford P. (2009) "EDVis-game: Utilizing game engine's reporting agents for environmental design Education and visualisation". Proceedings of the 5th International of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design, ASCAAD 2009, Manama, Bahrain.

Deane J., Langdon P., Clarkson J., and Sarhan A. (2008). "Equipping designers by simulating the effects of visual and hearing impairments". Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2008, Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15-17.