Chris Shaw

Chris Shaw is Professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. His research develops visual technologies for health informatics and chronic pain management, including virtual reality interventions and personalized visualization systems like FitViz for arthritis patients.

Current projects investigate VR as non-pharmacological analgesia and genomic data visualization through IMAS (Interactive Multigenomic Analysis System). Shaw's lab explores human-data interaction in bioinformatics, movement analytics, and sleep pattern visualization.