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Conferences

2008

visgets

Dörk, Marian; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Collins, Christopher; Williamson, Carey. VisGets: Coordinated Visualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '08) (to appear).

[Also listed under Journal Articles]

grounded evaluation Isenberg, Petra; Zuk, Torre; Collins, Christopher; and Carpendale, Sheelagh. Grounded Evaluation of Information Visualizations. In Proceedings of the CHI Workshop Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Information Visualization (BELIV 2008) (April 5, 2008, Florence, Italy), New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM Press. To appear in ACM DL.

 

2007

vislink Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh. VisLink: Revealing relationships amongst visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis ’07)), 13(6), pp. 1192-1199, November—December 2007. Available in PDF.

[Also listed under Journal Articles]
tabletop text entry Hinrichs, Uta; Hancock, Mark; Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh. Examination of text-entry methods for tabletop displays. Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Human-Computer Systems (Tabletop 2007), pp. 105-112. Newport, USA, October 2007. [PDF]
Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Penn, Gerald. Visualization of Uncertainty in Lattices to Support Decision-Making. Proceedings of Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization, pp. 51-59. Norrköping, Sweden, May 2007. [The definitive version is available from the Eurographics Digital Library | PDF | BibTeX]
persistent chat interface Baecker, Ronald; Fono, David; Blume, Lillian; Collins, Christopher; Couto, Delia. Webcasting Made Interactive: Persistent Chat for Text Dialogue During and About Learning Events. Proceedings of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting in Information Environments. Volume 4558/2007, pp. 260-268. Springer: 2007. [PDF | BibTeX]

2006

Collins, Christopher; Penn, Gerald. Leveraging Uncertainty Visualization in Multilingual Chatrooms.  Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Interactive Demonstration Session. Banff (2006). Extended abstract available in PDF. [Poster PDF] [BibTeX]

Collins, Christopher. DocuBurst: Document Content Visualization Using Language Structure. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Poster Session. Baltimore (2006). Extended abstract available in PDF. [Poster PDF] [BibTeX]

(see more complete Technical Report below)

2004

Collins, Christopher; Carpenter, Bob; Penn, Gerald. Head-Driven Parsing for Word Lattices.  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.  Barcelona (2004). Available in PS or PDF. [BibTeX]

 

Journal Articles

2008

visgets

Dörk, Marian; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Collins, Christopher; Williamson, Carey. VisGets: Coordinated Visualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '08) (to appear).

[Also listed under Journal Articles]

2007

vislink Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh. VisLink: Revealing relationships amongst visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis ’07)), 13(6), pp. 1192-1199, November—December 2007. Available in PDF.

2005

Clarke, R. G.; Collins, C. M.; Roberts, J. C.; Trevani, L.; Bartholomew, R. J.; Tremaine, P. R.   Ionization constants of aqueous amino acids at temperatures up to 250°C using hydrothermal pH indicators and UV-visible spectroscopy: Glycine, alpha-alanine, and proline. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69 (12): 3029—3043. (2005).

2000

Collins, Christopher; Tobin, Joelle; Shvedov Dmitri, Palepu, Rom; Tremaine, Peter R. Thermodynamic properties of aqueous diethanolamine (DEA), N,N-dimethylethanolamine (DMEA), and their chloride salts: apparent molar heat capacities and volumes at temperatures from 283.15 to 328.15 K. Canadian Journal of Chemistry 78(1): 151—165. (2000).

 

Technical Reports

2006

Collins, Christopher. DocuBurst: Radial Space-Filling Visualization of Document Content. Technical Report, KMDI, University of Toronto. (KMDI-TR-2007-1). Available in PDF. [BibTeX]

 

Theses & Dissertations

Collins, Christopher. Head-Driven Probabilistic Parsing For Word Lattices M.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto (2004). Available in PS or PDF. [BibTeX]
Collins, Christopher. Stability Constants for Glycine Under Hydrothermal Conditions Using Colorimetric Indicators. Honours Dissertation, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2001). Available in PS and PDF.

 

Invited Lectures & Conference Presentations

  [1] Collins, Christopher. Research Frontiers in Information Visualization.  Guest lecture for CSC 318: The Design of Interactive Computation Media, University of Toronto, August 2005 & March 2006. Available in PDF.
  [2] Collins, Christopher and Tate, Jude. The Troubles with Diversity. New U Student Leadership Conference, University of Toronto, June 2005. Available in PowerPoint.
  [3] Collins, Christopher and Fisher, Deanne. Developing Effective Student-Administration Relationships. New U Student Leadership Conference, University of Toronto, June 2005. [Quiz Activity, PDF] [Case Study Activity, PDF]
  [4] Collins, Christopher and Tate, Jude. Running a Successful Advocacy Campaign.  New U Student Leadership Conference, University of Toronto, May 2004. 
  [5] Tips for Success: NSERC Application Advice from a Successful Applicant.  Invited by University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies, May 2003.  Slides available in PDF.

 

Significant Course Projects & PhD Milestones

raytrace project [1] Collins, Christopher; Bao, Keijie. Raytrace Project, CSC 2504 (2006). View 1, View 2.
WordNet Explorer [2] Collins, Christopher. WordNet Explorer: Applying Visualization Principles to Lexical Semantics. (2006). Available in PDF.
Qualifying Exam [3] Collins, Christopher. A Critical Review of Information Visualizations for Natural Language. PhD Qualifying Exam Paper, University of Toronto, April 2005. Available in PDF.
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[4] Collins, Christopher. A History of Openness and the World Wide Web: The Forces Driving America Online and Mozilla Firefox. Course Project, KMDI 1002, University of Toronto, 2005. Available in PDF.
[5] Collins, Christopher. From Cocktail Parties to Conference Rooms: Using Human Audition to Improve Collaborative Work. Course project, KMDI 1001, University of Toronto, 2004. Available in PDF.
Prosody [6] Collins, Christopher. Recent Improvements to Automated Speech Recognition Using Prosodic Features.  Course project, CSC 2528, University of Toronto, 2002.  Available in PS or PDF.

 

Non-Academic Publications

  [1] Tucci, Roberta and Collins, Christopher. Submission to the Presidential Search Committee 2004. On behalf of the Graduate Students' Union, December, 2004. Available in PDF or DOC with PPT presentation slides.
  [2] Sukhai, Mahadeo and Collins, Christopher. Stepping Up: Academic Plan 2004-2010. GSU Response to the White Papers. On behalf of the Graduate Students' Union, October, 2003. Available in PDF or DOC.
  [3] Collins, Christopher; Sukhai, Mahadeo; Krueger, Richard; Coulter, Kendra. Academic Planning for 2003 and Beyond: GSU Response to the Green Papers. February, 2003. Available in PDF and DOC.


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