2021

• Jul 2022

  We got four papers accepted for publication in IEEE VIS 2022.

• Jun 2022

  Our paper entitled "ColorCook: Augmenting Color Design for Dashboarding with Domain-Associated Palettes" was conditionally accepted for publication in CSCW2022.

• May 2022

  Doctor Xingyu Lan presented her work Negative Emotions, Positive Outcomes at SIGCHI2022.

• Feb 2022

  Our paper entitled "Negative Emotions, Positive Outcomes? Exploring the Communication of Negativity in Serious Data Stories" was conditionally accepted for publication in CHI2022.

• Dec 2021

  Prof. Nan Cao gave a keynote presentation on intelligent design at the ninth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (Hongkong).

• Nov 2021

  Welcome to our online information session for PhD student enrollment on Nov.6.

• Oct 2021

  We are holding The First Young Scholars Forum on Intelligent Visualization.

• Jul 2021

  Our poster entitled "Calliope-Data: An Intelligent Visual Data Story Generation Platform for Mass" was awarded an Honorable Mention Award of ChinaVis2021.

• Jun 2021

  Zhuochen Jin (PhD), Zhaorui Li (Master), and Jinwen Li (Master), congratulations on your graduation!

• May 2021

  Master Student Tian Gao won IEEE Pacific Vis 2021 Visual Data Storytelling Contest.

• Apr 2021

  Prof. Nan Cao gave a keynote presentation on automatic generation of information visualization at CSIG-VIS Summit Forum (Tianjin).

• Feb 2021

  Our paper entitled "Understanding the Design Space for Animated Narratives Applied to Illustrations" was accepted to the CHI 2021 Late-Breaking Work.

• Jan 2021

  Our paper entitled "Smile or Scowl? Looking at Infographic Design Through the Affective Lens" was conditionally accepted for publication in PacificVis 2021 and IEEE TVCG.

2020

• Dec 2020

  Our paper entitled "Understanding Narrative Linearity for Telling Expressive Time-Oriented Stories" was conditionally accepted for publication in CHI2021.

• Dec 2020

  Our paper entitled "Communicating with Motion: A Design Space for Animated Visual Narratives in Data Videos" was conditionally accepted for publication in CHI2021.

• Dec 2020

  Our paper entitled "Vinci: An Intelligent Graphic Design System for Generating Advertising Posters" was conditionally accepted for publication in CHI2021.

• Nov 2020

  Doctor Zhuochen Jin presented his work EcoLens and TrammelGraph at ChinaVis2020.

• Oct 2020

  Doctor Shunan Guo and Doctor Yang Shi gave oral presentations at HHME 2020, Chongqing.

• Otc 2020

  We organized team building activities at Gongqing Forest Park.

• Sep 2020

  We hold an opening ceremony to welcome our new graduate students.

• Jul 2020

  Our paper entitled "EcoLens: Visual Analysis of Ecological Regions in Urban Contexts Using Traffic Data" won Best Paper Award at ChinaVis2020.

• Jun 2020

  We hold an online opening ceremony to welcome our summer interns.

• Mar 2020

  Doctor Qing Chen joined us as an Assistant Professor.

2019

• Dec 2019

  Doctor Panpan Xu from Bosch is invited to give a talk about "Tackle the Complexity of Data and Model in Visualization Research" for our students.

• Dec 2019

  Professor Xiang Chen from UCLA is invited to give a talk about "Expanding the Interaction Bandwidth between Human and AI" for our students.

• Dec 2019

  Our paper entitled "EmoG: Supporting the Sketching of Emotional Expressions for Storyboarding" is conditionally accepted for publication in CHI2020.

• Oct 2019

  We invited Chin-Yi Cheng, the principle researcher scientist from AI lab at Autodesk, to have a panel discussion with our students.

• Oct 2019

  Researcher Haofen Wang gave a talk entitled "The Beauty of Uncertainty of AI" at Emerging Practices Design Research and Education Conference 2019.

• Sep 2019

  Our paper entitled "Task-Oriented Optimal Sequencing of Visualization Charts" is accepted for publication in the proceedings of 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visualization in Data Science.

• Aug 2019

  PhD student Hongjin WU presents our paper entitled "VisAct: A Visualization Design System based on Semantic Actions" at ChinaVis 2019, Chengdu.

• Jul 2019

  Our paper entitled "VisAct: A Visualization Design System based on Semantic Actions" is accepted for publication in Journal of Visualization.

• Jul 2019

  Our paper entitled "CarePre: An Intelligent Clinical Decision Assistance System" is accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.

• Jun 2019

  Our paper entitled "Interactive Context-Aware Anomaly Detection Guided by User Feedback" is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

• Jun 2019

  iDVx Lab is reported by Tongji News [more details].

• Apr 2019

  Professor Nan CAO is invited to give a talk about "Anomaly Detection in Interactive Visual Analytics" at Tsinghua University.

• Mar 2019

  Professor Yang Yang from Zhejiang University is invited to give a talk about "Deep Mining in Social Media" for our students.

• Feb 2019

  Master student Xin YAN presents our paper entitled "AI-Sketcher: A Deep Generative Model for Producing High Quality Sketches" at AAAI 2019, Hawaii, US.

• Jan 2019

  We summarize our work in 2018 and publish a new version of our poster.

2018

• Dec 2018

  Our paper entitled "Visualizing Uncertainty and Alternatives in Event Sequence Predictions" is conditionally accepted by SIGCHI 2019.

• Nov 2018

  Our paper entitled "AI-Sketcher: A Deep Generative Model for Producing High Quality Sketches", is accpeted by AAAI 2019.

• Aug 2018

  Assistant researcher Yang SHI receives young scientists fund of the national natural science foundation of china (NSFC).

• Jul 2018

  Our paper entitled "Visual Progression Analysis of Event Sequence Data" is accepted by IEEE VAST 2018 and is selected as one of the TVCG journal special issue (SI) papers.

• Jul 2018

  Our paper entitled "EnsembleLens: Ensemble-based Visual Exploration of Anomaly Detection Algorithms with Multidimensional Data" is accepted by IEEE VAST 2018 and is selected as one of the TVCG journal special issue (SI) papers.

• Apr 2018

  Our paper entitled "MeetingVis: Visual Narratives to Assist in Recalling Meeting Context and Content" is awarded an Honorable Mention Award of PacificVis 2018.

• Feb 2018

  Our paper entitled "ECGLens: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Scale ECG Data for Arrhythmia Detection" is awarded an Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of all submissions) of SIGCHI 2018.

• Feb 2018

  Our visiting PhD student Shunan GUO receives an internship offer (position: data science research intern) from Adobe Systems Incorporated ("Adobe") in San Jose, USA.

2017

• Dec 2017

  Assistant researcher Yang SHI is selected as one of the Young Talents in Tongji University 2017 and receives the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

• Nov 2017

  Professor Nan CAO is invited to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 and give an oral presentation.

• Jul 2017

  iDV^x Lab lunched the 2017 summer intern program. A group of 10 interns from Tongji, Fudan, ECNU, KTH Royal Institute of Technology were recruited and they are working in the team on several research projects.

• May 2017

  Two papers are accepted by KDD 2017 and one paper is accepted by IEEE TVCG. This is the first TVCG published by the undergraduate students in iDV^x Lab.

• Mar 2017

  Students in iDV^x Lab received offers from top universities such as UCSD, UIUC, Columbia U, GogeiaTech and NYU.

2016

• Sep 2016

  The "Intelligent Big Data Visualization Lab (iDV^x)" is founded by Prof. Nan Cao at TongJi University in College of Design and Innovation, ShangHai, China.