Peter McLachlan

peter mcLachlan

Headshot overlooking Burrard Inlet. Vancouver, BC 2006
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science in the Imager Laboratory at the University of British Columbia.

Research interests
I'm currently doing research in the area of Information Visualization supervised by Dr. Tamara Munzner. My research involves using the properties of Accordion Drawing (AD) and Guaranteed Visibility (GV) with a semantic zooming framework to visualize large systems datasets. I am using the Java based PRISAD framework for my research. For a course project in Information Visualization, I developed an application for visualizing network sniffer data called Network Analysis Visualization. I am also interested in multi-modal/physical interfaces, and the exploration of haptics as an additional information channel.

Publications
Peter McLachlan, Tamara Munzner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen North. LiveRAC - Interactive Visual Exploration of System Management Time-Series Data. To appear In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 5 - 10, 2008). CHI '08.*

* Best of CHI

LiveRAC - Live Reorderable Accordion Drawing. Master's Thesis. September, 2006.
Perceiving ordinal data haptically under workload. In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Multimodal interfaces (Trento, Italy, October 04 - 06, 2005). ICMI '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 317-324.*

* Winner of Outstanding Paper Award

Videos
LiveRAC demo. September, 2007. ~32MB Quicktime 6 or better required.

Presentations
LiveRAC, Live Reorderable Accordion Drawing, CHI paper.. April, 2008. PDF. (~ 12MB)
2007 AT&T University Collaboration Symposium. August, 2007. Microsoft PowerPoint format.
MSc Thesis Presentation. September, 2006. Microsoft PowerPoint format.

Courses

Information Visualization with Dr. Tamara Munzner.
Human Computer Interaction with Dr. Kellogg Booth.
Distributed Systems with Dr. Mike Feeley.
Research Methods with Dr. Gail Murphy.
Physical Interface Design with Dr. Karon MacLean.
Experimental Designs and Analysis with Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell.