Chris North Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech

Contact:

http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/ 

Office hours:  by appointment
VTKW2 1142

(540)231-2458 (office)
(540)231-6931 (CS Department)
(540)231-9218 (fax)

Dept of Computer Science
2202 Kraft Drive
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA  24061-0106

Teach:

• CS 6724 Display-Wall User Interfaces
• CS 5764  Information Visualization  (Fall 2007)
• CS 4604  Database Management Systems
• CS 3724  Human-Computer Interaction
• CS 2604  Data Structures and File Processing
• Workshops on GUI programming in Java and C#

Research:

• Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation (LIVE)
• GigaPixel Display Laboratory
• Publications
• Primary Interests:  Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, User Interface Software
• Basic Research:  interactive visualization with large high-resolution displays, insight-based evaluation of visualization, Snap-Together Visualization, usability of information visualization, cognitive processing of multiple views, visual data aggregation, combining visualization and data mining, information-rich virtual environments, visualization and attention.
• Applied Research: geographic data visualization, bioinformatics visualization (gene expression, pathway networks, ontology trees), visualization for network security, visualizing usability data, visualizing multi-dimensional functions, visualizing runtime data structures.
• Opportunities for student projects: PhD, MS, VTURCS (see me).
• Information Visualization special issue on Bioinformatics Visualization

More Info:

• Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech
• Information Security research group at VT
• Elijah
• Sarah
• Fun with McCricks
• Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, PCA

http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/