Contact Information

Office: Room 280, Sitterson Hall
Phone: (919) 962-1954
Email: chrisv@cs.unc.edu

Research

I am a member of the Effective Virtual Environments research group, and a tools engineering intern at Emergent Game Technologies. My current interests lie in user identification and behavior inference within interactive simulations such as virtual environments.

I was team lead for the 2007-2008 academic year, the systems lead for the 2004 locomotion user study, and wrote the current version of our Pit demo. As part of this work, I contributed heavily to the EVEIL engine, a series of libraries which integrate with the Wild Magic 3 graphics engine to simplify the creation of immersive virtual environments. I also wrote the drivers for VRPN to support the Crossbow RGA300 accelerometer and X-Keys input devices, as well as generic (if low-level) USB HID support under Windows.

As part of a forthcoming group research project, EVEIL has been extended to target the Gamebryo renderer.

Teaching

I taught COMP 380, Computers and Society, in the summer of 2007. The course web page has been archived and is no longer available.

Education

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
M.S. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008.
B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, 2002.
International Baccalaureate graduate, Southside High School, Greenville, SC, 1999.