Author: Chris North
Ph.D
Dr. Chris North is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He directs the GigaPixel Display Laboratory, is head of the Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation, and is a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2000.
His research is in the areas of human-computer interaction, information visualization, large high-resolution displays, and visualization evaluation methods. He is author of over 50 publications and leads multiple funded research projects, supported by NSF, NGA, NIST, and industry. He regularly teaches graduate courses on Information Visualization and undergraduate courses on Human-Computer Interaction. He has served on the Organizing Committee of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference since 2004. He was awarded Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2007.
Publications
Co-authors
Productive Colleagues
- Mary Beth Rosson
- John M. Carroll
- Ben Shneiderman
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Publications
Shupp, Lauren, Andrews, Christopher, Dickey-Kurdziolek, Margaret, Yost, Beth, North, Chris (2009): Shaping the Display of the Future: The Effects of Display Size and Curvature on User Perfo. In Human-Computer Interaction, 24 (1) pp. 230-272. https://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/07370020902739429
Plaisant, Catherine, North, Chris (2007): Special Issue in Honor of Ben Shneiderman\'s 60th Birthday: Reflections on Human-Computer . In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 23 (3) pp. 195-204. https://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10447310701702766
Sabri, Andrew J., Ball, Robert G., Fabian, Alain, Bhatia, Saurabh, North, Chris (2007): High-resolution gaming: Interfaces, notifications, and the user experience. In Interacting with Computers, 19 (2) pp. 151-166. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2006.08.002
Ball, Robert, North, Chris (2007): Realizing embodied interaction for visual analytics through large displays. In Computers & Graphics, 31 (3) pp. 380-400. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2007.01.029
North, Chris (2006): Toward Measuring Visualization Insight. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 26 (3) pp. 6-9. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2006.70
North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben (2000): Snap-Together Visualization: Can Users Construct and Operate Coordinated Visualizations?. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53 (5) pp. 715-739.
Yost, Beth, Haciahmetoglu, Yonca, North, Chris (2007): Beyond visual acuity: the perceptual scalability of information visualizations for large d. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 101-110. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240639
Ball, Robert, North, Chris, Bowman, Doug A. (2007): Move to improve: promoting physical navigation to increase user performance with large dis. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 191-200. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240656
Shupp, Lauren, Ball, Robert, Yost, Beth, Booker, John, North, Chris (2006): Evaluation of viewport size and curvature of large, high-resolution displays. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Graphics Interface , 2006, . pp. 123-130. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1143079.1143100
Wang, Jun, Agrawal, Abhishek, Bazaza, Anil, Angle, Supriya, Fox, Edward A., North, Chris (2002): Enhancing the ENVISION interface for digital libraries. In: JCDL02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2002, . pp. 275-276. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/544220.544279
Ball, Robert, North, Chris (2005): Effects of tiled high-resolution display on basic visualization and navigation tasks. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 1196-1199. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1056875
Yost, Beth, North, Chris (2005): Single complex glyphs versus multiple simple glyphs. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 1889-1892. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1057048
Carroll, John M., Bowman, Doug A., McCrickard, Scott, North, Chris, Perez-Quinones, Manuel A., Rosson, Mary Beth (2003): Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction , 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 1061.
Ball, Robert, North, Chris (2008): The Effects of Peripheral Vision and Physical Navigation on Large Scale Visualization. In: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Graphics Interface May 28-30, 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. pp. 9-16.
Fink, Glenn A., Muessig, Paul, North, Chris (2005): Visual Correlation of Host Processes and Network Traffic. In: Ma, Kwan-Liu, North, Stephen C., Yurcik, William (eds.) VizSEC 2005 - IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security 26 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pp. 2. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIZSEC.2005.18
Fink, Glenn A., North, Chris (2005): Root Polar Layout of Internet Address Data for Security Administration. In: Ma, Kwan-Liu, North, Stephen C., Yurcik, William (eds.) VizSEC 2005 - IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security 26 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pp. 7. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIZSEC.2005.23
Ball, Robert, Fink, Glenn A., North, Chris (2004): Home-centric visualization of network traffic for security administration. In: Brodley, Carla E., Chan, Philip, Lippman, Richard, Yurcik, William (eds.) VizSEC/DMSEC 2004 - Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security 29 October, 2004, Washington DC, USA. pp. 55-64. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1029208.1029217
Jayaraman, Sanjini, North, Chris (2002): A Radial Focus+Context Visualization for Multi-Dimensional Functions. In: IEEE Visualization 2002 , 2002, .
Dang, Gunjan, North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben (2001): Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps. In: IV 2001 , 2001, . pp. 757-764. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/iv/2001/1195/00/11950757abs.htm
Bowman, Doug A., North, Chris, Chen, Jian, Polys, Nicholas F., Pyla, Pardha S., Yilmaz, Umur (2003): Information-rich virtual environments: theory, tools, and research agenda. In: VRST 2003 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology October 1-3, 2003, Osaka, Japan. pp. 81-90. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1008653.1008669
North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben (2000): Snap-Together Visualization: A User Interface for Coodinating Visualizations via Relationa. In: Advanced Visual Interfaces 2000 , 2000, . pp. 128-135.
Li, Qing, North, Chris (2003): Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Query Sliders and Brushing Histograms. In: InfoVis 2003 - 9th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 20-21 October, 2003, Seattle, WA, USA. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/2003/2055/00/20550019abs.htm
Conklin, Nathan, Prabhakar, Sandeep, North, Chris (2002): Multiple Foci Drill-Down through Tuple and Attribute Aggregation Polyarchies in Tabular Da. In: InfoVis 2002 - 2002 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 27 October - 1 November, 2002, Boston, MA, USA. pp. 131-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/2002/1751/00/17510131abs.htm
North, Chris, Conklin, Nathan, Saini, Varun (2002): Visualization Schemas for Flexible Information Visualization. In: InfoVis 2002 - 2002 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 27 October - 1 November, 2002, Boston, MA, USA. pp. 15-22. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/infovis/2002/1751/00/17510015abs.htm
Saraiya, Purvi, Lee, Peter, North, Chris (2005): Visualization of Graphs with Associated Timeseries Data. In: InfoVis 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 23-25 October, 2005, Minneapolis, MN, USA. pp. 30. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2005.37
Saraiya, Purvi, North, Chris, Duca, Karen (2004): An Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools for Biological Insight. In: InfoVis 2004 - 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 10-12 October, 2004, Austin, TX, USA. pp. 1-8. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.5
Andrews, Christopher, Endert, Alex, North, Chris (2010): Space to think: large high-resolution displays for sensemaking. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 55-64. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753336
Ni, Tao, Bowman, Doug A., North, Chris (2011): AirStroke: bringing unistroke text entry to freehand gesture interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 2473-2476. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979303
North, Chris, Chang, Remco, Endert, Alex, Dou, Wenwen, May, Richard, Pike, Bill, Fink, Glenn (2011): Analytic provenance: process+interaction+insight. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 33-36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979570
Endert, Alex, Fiaux, Patrick, Chung, Haeyong, Stewart, Michael, Andrews, Christopher, North, Chris (2011): ChairMouse: leveraging natural chair rotation for cursor navigation on large, high-resolut. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 571-580. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979628
Endert, Alex, Andrews, Christopher, Lee, Yueh Hua, North, Chris (2011): Visual encodings that support physical navigation on large displays. In: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Graphics Interface , 2011, . pp. 103-110.
Endert, Alex, Bradel, Lauren, Zeitz, Jessica, Andrews, Christopher, North, Chris (2012): Designing large high-resolution display workspaces. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces , 2012, . pp. 58-65. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2254556.2254570
Endert, Alex, Fox, Seth, Maiti, Dipayan, Leman, Scotland, North, Chris (2012): The semantics of clustering: analysis of user-generated spatializations of text documents. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces , 2012, . pp. 555-562. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2254556.2254660