Christopher G. (Chris) Jennings

Photograph of Chris

    
 
PhD Student  
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Lab  
Department of Computing Science  
Simon Fraser University  
   
 

Current Research

Visualization of a design as presented by our experimental design explorer. My recent work is in supporting creative problem-solving—in particular, in supporting the design process. As part of this work, Ted Kirkpatrick and I have developed a design space explorer for experimental design. Our explorer allows the user to interactively explore the space of all possible experimental designs, and provides fast feedback on how design choices will impact important design trade-offs.

A Recent Paper on this Work (presented at GI 2007)

Demonstration videos (QuickTime format):
    Aspects of the Interface and Interaction Design (30.4 MB)
    A Brief Exploration Session (17.8 MB)

Teaching

Part of a design sketch from a class discussion on designing a colour selection dialog. Computing Science 363 (User Interface Design)

Popular Destinations

Two matches for the substring T A G in a string of DNA nucleotides. Click one of the following links if you are looking for...

...information on and a visualization of the Franek-Jennings-Smyth Exact Pattern Matching Algorithm
...Strange Eons, a custom content design tool for the Arkham Horror board game
...checker, a validation tool for LibriVox volunteers
...a fisheye viewer for source code and other text documents structured by indentation
...a dosing tool recommended by the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners

Other Tidbits

Computer-generated tree image created with the L-system applet on this web site. The Computational Tickle Trunk...

...an introduction to Lindenmayer systems with an accompanying applet
...an applet demonstrating JPEG-89 compression, including the hierarchical variant
...precompiled binaries for the R math library
...and the rest of the Tickle Trunk

What's with the [?] Icon?

You may notice the above icon sprinkled throughout pages on this site, just in front of some links.  It means that the associated link will do a web search for terms appropriate to the highlighted text.  I do this for items that I feel an interested reader might want more information about—not because I'm too lazy to find a good page to link to, but because I'm too lazy to continually find new links as old ones inevitably go stale.  Besides, this way you get a pointer to a lot more information than one page would hold.

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Updated August 11, 2010