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Journals
2009
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Collins, Christopher; Penn, Gerald; Carpendale, Sheelagh. Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations over Existing Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '09)), 15(6): pp. 1009-1015, November-December, 2009. Available in PDF.
[Also listed under Conferences]
Project page with video |
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Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh; and Penn, Gerald. DocuBurst: Visualizing Document Content using Language Structure. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis '09)), 28(3): pp. 1039-1046, June, 2009. Available in PDF.
[Also listed under Conferences]
Project page |
2008
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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)), 14(6): pp. 1205-1213, November-December, 2008. Available in PDF, Video  .
[Also listed under Conferences]
Try it live!  |
2007
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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 Conferences]
Project page with video |
2005
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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
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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). |
Conferences
2010
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Maheswara, Gowritharan; Bradbury, Jeremy S.; Collins, Christopher. TIE: An interactive visualization of thread interleavings. Poster Proc of ACM SoftVis, pp. 63-64, October, 2010.
* Best poster award!
Poster PDF. Extended abstract PDF. Video. |
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Vlaming, Luc; Collins, Christopher; Hancock, Mark; Nacenta, Miguel; Isenberg, Tobias; and Carpendale, Sheelagh. Integrating 2D mouse emulation with 3D manipulation for visualizations on a multi-touch table. Proc. ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pp. 221-230, November, 2010. Available in PDF, Video .
Project page with embedded video.
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2009
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Hancock, Mark; Hilliges, Otmar; Collins, Christopher; Baur, Dominikus; Carpendale, Sheelagh. Exploring Tangible and Direct Touch Interfaces
for Manipulating 2D and 3D Information on a Digital Table. Proc. of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS), November, 2009. Available in PDF, Video .
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Collins, Christopher; Viégas, Fernanda B.; Wattenberg, Martin. Parallel Tag Clouds to Explore Faceted Text Corpora. Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), October, 2009. Available in PDF.
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Collins, Christopher; Penn, Gerald; Carpendale, Sheelagh. Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations over Existing Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis '09)), 15(6): pp. 1009-1016, November-December, 2009. Available in PDF.
[Also listed under Journal Articles]
Project page with video |
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Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh; and Penn, Gerald. DocuBurst: Visualizing Document Content using Language Structure. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis '09)), 28(3): pp. 1039-1046, June, 2009. Available in PDF.
[Also listed under Journal Articles]
Project page |
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Blume, Lil; Baecker, Ron; Collins, Christopher; and Donohue, Aran. A "Communication Skills for Computer Scientists" Course. To appear in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2009. Available in PDF. |
2008
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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), 14(6): pp. 1205-1213, November-December, 2008. Available in PDF, Video.
[Also listed under Journal Articles]
Try it live! |
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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. Available in PDF. |
2007
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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]
Project page with video
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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] |
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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]
Project page with video
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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
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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] |
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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]
(please see more complete 2009 Computer Graphics Forum paper)
Project page |
2004
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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] |
Supervised Student Contributions
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Kudlacz, M.; Tan, R.; Prindiville, J.; Peters, M. RoutePlanner. In CHI ’06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Student Design Competition, pages 1849–1854. ACM Press, 2006. Available in PDF.
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Technical
Reports
2006
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Collins,
Christopher. DocuBurst: Radial Space-Filling Visualization of
Document Content. Technical Report, KMDI, University of Toronto. (KMDI-TR-2007-1). Available in PDF.
[BibTeX]
(please see more complete 2009 Computer Graphics Forum paper)
Project page
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Theses & Dissertations
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Collins, Christopher. Interactive Visualizations of Natural Language. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto (2010). [website] |
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Collins,
Christopher. Head-Driven Probabilistic Parsing For Word Lattices. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto (2004). Available in PS or PDF.
[ BibTeX] |
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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
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Finding Ostriches in the Courtroom. Talk at the Transparent Text Symposium, IBM Research, September, 2009. |
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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. |
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Collins,
Christopher and Tate, Jude. The Troubles with Diversity. New
U Student Leadership Conference, University of Toronto, June 2005. Available
in PowerPoint. |
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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] |
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Collins,
Christopher and Tate, Jude. Running a Successful Advocacy Campaign. New U Student Leadership Conference, University of Toronto, May 2004. |
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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. |
Institutional Planning Contributions
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[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. |
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[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. |
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[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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