This project page demonstrates works under two categories:
 • Calliope: an intelligent system for automatically generating, editing, and sharing visual data stories.
 • Researches that are broadly related to narrative visualization, including infographics, factsheet, animation, data video, annotated chart, and so on.
Keywords: Data-driven Storytelling, Automatic Visual Design, Information Visualization

• Apr 2022

  Our paper entitled "Negative Emotions, Positive Outcomes? Exploring the Communication of Negativity in Serious Data Stories" was accepted for publication in SIGCHI2022.
  

• Sep 2021

  Our paper entitled "VizLinter: A Linter and Fixer Framework for Data Visualization" was accepted for publication in IEEE TVCG.
  

• Sep 2021

  Our paper entitled "A Design Space for Applying the Freytag’s Pyramid Structure to Data Stories" was accepted for publication in IEEE TVCG.
  

• Sep 2021

  Our paper entitled "Kineticharts: Augmenting Affective Expressiveness of Charts in Data Stories with Animation Design" was accepted for publication in IEEE TVCG.
  

• Jun 2021

  Our paper entitled "AutoClips: An Automatic Approach to Video Generation from Data Facts" was accepted for publication in EuroVis 2021.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Oct 2020

  Our paper entitled "Calliope: Automatic Visual Data Story Generation from a Spreadsheet" is accepted by IEEE InfoVis 2020 and is selected as one of the TVCG journal special issue (SI) papers.
  

• 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.