Dr. Andrew Johnson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and member of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His research and teaching focus on interaction and collaboration using advanced visualization displays and the application of those displays to enhance discovery and learning.
News
spring '13
evl has started to hold monthly open houses for people interested in visiting the new cave. More info here
evl will be celebrating its 40th anniversary later this year
fall '12
I am teaching CS 424 Visualization and Visual Analytics I this fall in EVL's Cyber-Commons classroom.
evl has unveiled cave 2.
EVL hosted a lab tour for 'Chicago ideas week' on October 8th. I talked about 'Turning Science Fiction into Reality' and the public was able to experience our new cave 2. For more details see www.chicagoideas.com
summer '12
cave 2 construction is under way! and evl has a video about the new cave here
evl's Futures of the Past series continues Fridays at 1pm in the Cyber-Commons. The current list is here
spring '12
I am teaching CS 422 User Interface Design and Programming as well as CS 525 GPU Programming in EVL's Cyber-Commons classroom.
I participated as a mentor in the Chicago area Spark program.
I am now an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Systems Science, in the College of Nursing at UIC.
fall '11
I am teaching Visualization and Visual Analytics I this fall in EVL's Cyber-Commons classroom which has been upgraded to a passive stereo tiled LCD wall.
evl has begun showing classic sci-fi movies and TV episodes to spur discussion about how the technology and social issues of the time affect the views of the technology of the future. The current list is here
summer '11
Ratko successfully defended his PhD dissertation - Collaborative Interaction And Display Space Organization In Large High-Resolution Environments - on July 1st and will be heading off to work at Intel
spring '11
I am teaching Visualization and Visual Analytics II this spring in EVL's Cyber-Commons classroom.
Julian successfully defended his PhD dissertation - Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations - on May 11th and will be heading off to work at Pixar
fall '10
This fall I am teaching Visualization and Visual Analytics again in EVL's Cyber-Commons classroom.
CS 424 Visualization and Visual Analytics and CS 524 Visualization and Visual Analytics II have now been approved as permanent courses starting in Spring 2011.
Our earthquake preparedness game is now available to play on the Illinois Emergency Management Agency website is available to play here
The university has approved our undergraduate Human Centered Computing Concentration for undergraduates who are interested in focusing their studies in this area. More information available here
summer '10
Julieta and I spent a week in Chile's Atacama Desert - the town of San Pedro de Atacama (at 2400m), Valle de la Luna, the Salar (salt flat) de Atacama with its flamingos, the El Taito geyser field (at 4200m), Laguna Miscani and Miñiques (at 4100m), and other sights.
Photos available here.
spring '10
NSF MRI-R2: Development of the Next-Generation CAVE Virtual Environment (NG-CAVE) awarded to UIC/EVL.
This spring I'm teaching CS 525 - GPU Programming in EVL's Cyber-Commons classroom.
I ported Unfolding Space and battalion to the iPad. Since then Unfolding Space has been in the top 100 free ipad lifestyle apps and battalion in the top 100 free ipad action games.
fall '09
This fall I won the 2009 award for Excellence in Teaching, which is given out to at most five faculty members each year at UIC. More details here
I am teaching a new course in the fall - Visualization and Visual Analytics - with the temporary number of CS 491. This is a more practical undergraduate and graduate version of the 'current topics in visualization' course that I have been teaching for several years. It is also be the first course taught in EVL's new Cyber-Commons classroom.
summer '09
EVL hosted a second Saturday of 'science chicago' on July 18th. I talked about 'Imaging the Future' and the public was able to interact with current hardware and software projects. For more details see sciencechicago.com
The 'Water' exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago featured EVL's raintable software running on an EVL-developed high-resolution table, developed in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota. The exhibit ran from June 17 through September 20.
NSF STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyber Infrastructure Awarded to UIC/EVL.
spring '09
I have started porting some of my OpenGL applications to the iPhone.
Here is a link to Unfolding Space
Here
is a link to battalion
From May '09 through February '10 Unfolding Space has been in the top 8%-12% of lifestyle apps, and battalion has been around the top 35%-37% of action games.
fall '08
Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business by Edery and Mollick has a paragraph on 1983's Castle Smurfenstein as the first user-created mod of a computer video game.
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism by Mason has more on Smurfenstein including the quote "But what started out as a harmless prank was to become the lifeblood of the gaming industry... By remixing a game, the Dead Smurf Software crew changed the game entirely."
Contact Information
office location
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
2032 Engineering Research Facility
University of Illinois at Chicago
842 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607
ajohnson at uic.edu
(312) 996-3002 - EVL phone
(312) 413-7585 - EVL fax
mail address
Department of Computer Science (M/C 152)
851 S. Morgan St., Room 1120 SEO
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607-7053
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