Hello! I am Liwenhan Xie (Shelly), a PhD candidate from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology advised by Prof. Huamin Qu.

My research probes the intersection of information visualization and human-computer interaction, viewing visualization authoring a practice of end-user programming. I conduct both empirical studies and design studies to empower people to create expressive and affective visualizations.

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🦘 Attend my 2nd VIS after five years! Glad to meet old and new friends.
🥹 Dream comes true: Wakey-Wakey was featured in UIST teaser!
🐋 Arrive in Boston and start my 3-month visit to the Visual Computing Group.
💭 One paper on historical vis collection is accepted in IEEE VIS 2023!
Liwenhan Xie

Selected Projects

Wakey-Wakey

Create kinetic typography with motion transfer. By deforming text while maintaining its legibility, semantics/emotions can be expressed through animation.

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Emordle

A computational approach to generate wordles that conveys nuanced emotions. The animation scheme of kinetic typography is propagated to multiple words.

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GeoCamera

GeoCamera is an authoring tool for specifying camera effects in geospatial data videos according to narrative purposes

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Selected Publications

Wakey-Wakey: Animate Text by Mimicking Characters in a GIF.
Liwenhan Xie*, Zhaoyu Zhou*, Kerun Yu, Yun Wang, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen. UIST, 2023.
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Creating Emordle: Animating Word Cloud for Emotion Expression.
Liwenhan Xie, Xinhuan Shu, Jeon Cheol Su, Yun Wang, Siming Chen, Huamin Qu. TVCG, 2023. (Early Access)
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GeoCamera: Telling Stories in Geographic Visualizations with Camera Movements.
Wenchao Li, Zhan Wang, Yun Wang, Di Weng, Liwenhan Xie, Siming Chen, Haidong Zhang, Huamin Qu. CHI, 2023.
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Learning to Automate Chart Layout Configurations Using Crowdsourced Paired Comparison.
Aoyu Wu, Liwenhan Xie, Bongshin Lee, Yun Wang, Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu. CHI, 2021.
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AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically.
Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Datong Wei, Xiaoru Yuan. PacificVis, 2020. (Short Paper)
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