Welcome to the GRUVI lab!

GRUVI = GRaphics, Usability, and VIsualization

We are an inter-disciplinary team of researchers exploring and developing novel methods in Computer Graphics, Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction and the use of these methods in a variety of applications. Current areas of focus include Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Geometric Modeling and Processing, Medical Imaging, and Haptic Interfaces.

Our interactive computer graphics lab was first founded in 1992 by Tom Calvert, and has gone through many re-inventions of itself, including changes in its name, in the intervening years. One constant has been the combining of new developments with their application, beginning with Calvert's work in human animation being used by the famous choreographer Cunningham in New York to design a new piece; this research later formed the basis of the LifeForms animation system, the initial product of the Credo Inc. startup firm. This combining of theory and application continued with the Intelligent Graphic Interface project, a joint university-industry effort out of which the Continuous Zoom method arose, later extended and applied to web navigation, forming the basis of the ThoughtShare startup. The lab grew from an initial complement of four in a small area in the upper floor of the SFU Library, where it was simply "the graphics lab" through several stages and names to its present complement of 4 full time faculty, a half dozen or so associated faculty and close to twenty graduate and undergraduate students.

GrUVi Lab is at Simon Fraser University atop of Burnaby Mountain in the Technology And Science Complex, room TASC 8001. If you'd like to visit, instructions on how to get here are on the main SFU site. If you'd like to correspond with us in other ways, here is our data:

GrUVi Lab
School Of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
Canada

Phone: +1 (604) 291-3610
Fax: +1 (604) 291-3045
Email: contact@gruvi.cs.sfu.ca