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Overview

Chris North is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics addressed in their research include Data Visualization and Analytics, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Advanced Text Analysis Techniques, Video Analysis and Summarization, Topic Modeling, and Semantic Web and Ontologies.

Chris North has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Evaluating the Benefits of the Immersive Space to Think, 2020, 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
  • Exploring the Evolution of Sensemaking Strategies in Immersive Space to Think, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • A Survey on Event-Based News Narrative Extraction, 2023, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Interactive Artificial Intelligence: Designing for the "Two Black Boxes" Problem, 2020, Computer
  • Immersive Analytics 2.0: Spatial and Embodied Sensemaking, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

The venues in which their work frequently appears reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research and include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computing in Science & Engineering
  • 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • John Wenskovitch
  • Brian Keith
  • Yalong Yang
  • Rebecca Faust
  • Doug A. Bowman

Best Publications

  • Toward measuring visualization insight

    C. North

  • Space to think: large high-resolution displays for sensemaking

    Christopher Andrews;Alex Endert;Chris North

  • An insight-based methodology for evaluating bioinformatics visualizations

    P. Saraiya;C. North;K. Duca

  • Snap-together visualization: a user interface for coordinating visualizations via relational schemata

    Chris North;Ben Shneiderman

  • The Value of Information Visualization

    Jean-Daniel Fekete;Jarke J. Wijk;John T. Stasko;Chris North

  • Move to improve: promoting physical navigation to increase user performance with large displays

    Robert Ball;Chris North;Doug A. Bowman

  • Semantic interaction for visual text analytics

    Alex Endert;Patrick Fiaux;Chris North

  • Home-centric visualization of network traffic for security administration

    Robert Ball;Glenn A. Fink;Chris North

  • Snap-together visualization

    Chris North;Ben Shneiderman

  • Information visualization on large, high-resolution displays: issues, challenges, and opportunities

    Christopher Andrews;Alex Endert;Beth Yost;Chris North

  • Information-rich virtual environments: theory, tools, and research agenda

    Doug A. Bowman;Chris North;Jian Chen;Nicholas F. Polys

  • Effects of tiled high-resolution display on basic visualization and navigation tasks

    Robert Ball;Chris North

  • The human is the loop: new directions for visual analytics

    Alex Endert;M. Shahriar Hossain;Naren Ramakrishnan;Chris North

  • An Insight-Based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics

    P. Saraiya;C. North;V. Lam;K.A. Duca

  • Visualizing biological data-now and in the future.

    Seán I. O’Donoghue;Anne Claude Gavin;Nils Gehlenborg;David S. Goodsell

  • Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives

    Andreas Kerren;John T. Stasko;Jean-Daniel Fekete;Chris North

  • A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordinations

    Chris North;Ben Shneiderman

  • Observation-level interaction with statistical models for visual analytics

    Alex Endert;Chao Han;Dipayan Maiti;Leanna House

  • Semantic Interaction for Sensemaking: Inferring Analytical Reasoning for Model Steering

    A. Endert;P. Fiaux;C. North

  • Beyond visual acuity: the perceptual scalability of information visualizations for large displays

    Beth Yost;Yonca Haciahmetoglu;Chris North

  • An Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools for Biological Insight

    P. Saraiya;C. North;K. Duca

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Endert
Alex Endert Georgia Institute of Technology
Naren Ramakrishnan
Naren Ramakrishnan Virginia Tech
Doug A. Bowman
Doug A. Bowman Virginia Tech
Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park
Jean-Daniel Fekete
Jean-Daniel Fekete French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
John Stasko
John Stasko Georgia Institute of Technology
Jian Chen
Jian Chen The Ohio State University
Catherine Plaisant
Catherine Plaisant University of Maryland, College Park
Edward A. Fox
Edward A. Fox Virginia Tech
Steven M. Drucker
Steven M. Drucker Microsoft (United States)

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