Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

2025

“You'll Be Alice Adventuring in Wonderland!” Processes, Challenges, and Opportunities of Creating Animated Virtual Reality Stories

“You'll Be Alice Adventuring in Wonderland!” Processes, Challenges, and Opportunities of Creating Animated Virtual Reality Stories

Lin-Ping Yuan, Feilin Han, Liwenhan Xie, Junjie Zhang, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu
CHI ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Yokohama, Japan
DOI arXiv

2024

WaitGPT: Monitoring and Steering Conversational LLM Agent in Data Analysis with On-the-Fly Code Visualization WaitGPT: Monitoring and Steering Conversational LLM Agent in Data Analysis with On-the-Fly Code Visualization

WaitGPT: Monitoring and Steering Conversational LLM Agent in Data Analysis with On-the-Fly Code Visualization

Liwenhan Xie, Chengbo Zheng, Haijun Xia, Huamin Qu, Chen Zhu-Tian
UIST ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in Pittsburgh, USA
DOI arXiv Website Preview Video Slides Tweet

2023

Wakey-Wakey: Animate Text by Mimicking Characters in a GIF Wakey-Wakey: Animate Text by Mimicking Characters in a GIF

Wakey-Wakey: Animate Text by Mimicking Characters in a GIF

Liwenhan Xie*, Zhaoyu Zhou*, Kerun Yu, Yun Wang, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen
UIST ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in San Francisco, USA
DOI arXiv Website Preview Talk Code Slides Tweet
Creating Emordle: Animating Word Cloud for Emotion Expression Creating Emordle: Animating Word Cloud for Emotion Expression

Creating Emordle: Animating Word Cloud for Emotion Expression

Liwenhan Xie, Xinhuan Shu, Jeon Cheol Su, Yun Wang, Siming Chen, Huamin Qu
TVCG IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
DOI arXiv Website Preview Talk OSF Demo Slides Tweet
OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations

OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations

Yu Zhang, Ruike Jiang, Liwenhan Xie, Yuheng Zhao, Can Liu, Tianhong Ding, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan
VIS IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
DOI arXiv Website Preview Slides Code Demo
GeoCamera: Telling Stories in Geographic Visualizations with Camera Movements GeoCamera: Telling Stories in Geographic Visualizations with Camera Movements

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 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hamburg, Germany
DOI arXiv Website Preview Video Demo
FoodWise: Food Waste Reduction and Behavior Change on Campus with Data Visualization and Gamification

FoodWise: Food Waste Reduction and Behavior Change on Campus with Data Visualization and Gamification

Yue Yu, Sophia Yi, Xi Nan, Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Kento Shigyo, Liwenhan Xie, Jeffry Wicaksana, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Huamin Qu
COMPASS ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies in Cape Town, South Africa -Short Paper
DOI arXiv

2022

Let Every Seat Be Perfect! A Case Study on Combining BIM and VR for Room Planning

Let Every Seat Be Perfect! A Case Study on Combining BIM and VR for Room Planning

Wai Tong*, Haotian Li*, Huan Wei*, Liwenhan Xie*, Yanna Lin*, Huamin Qu
VRW IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops in Christchurch, New Zealand (Poster)
DOI Video

2021

Learning to Automate Chart Layout Configurations Using Crowdsourced Paired Comparison

Learning to Automate Chart Layout Configurations Using Crowdsourced Paired Comparison

Aoyu Wu, Liwenhan Xie, Bongshin Lee, Yun Wang, Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu
CHI ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Online
DOI arXiv Talk Code

2020

Interactive Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks

Interactive Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks

Liwenhan Xie, James O'Donnell, Benjamin Bach, Jean-Daniel Fekete
AVI International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces in Ischia Island, Italy
Honorable Mention Award
DOI Manuscript Website Talk Code Demo Slides
AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically

AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically

Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Datong Wei, Xiaoru Yuan
PacificVis IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium in Online -Short Paper
DOI Video Code

2019

EarthquakeAware: Visual Analytics for Understanding Human Impacts of Earthquakes from Social Media Data

EarthquakeAware: Visual Analytics for Understanding Human Impacts of Earthquakes from Social Media Data

Shuai Chen, Sihang Li, Liwenhan Xie, Yi Zhong, Yun Han, Xiaoru Yuan
VAST Challenge IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Vancouver, Canada (Poster)
DOI Website Video
Automatic Caption Generation for SVG Charts

Automatic Caption Generation for SVG Charts

Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Xiaoru Yuan
PacificVis IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium in Bangkok, Thailand (Poster)
Manuscript

2018

Visualizing Dynamic Networks of Long Sequences with Pixel Matrix Array

Visualizing Dynamic Networks of Long Sequences with Pixel Matrix Array

Lijing Lin, Liwenhan Xie, Zhuo Zhang, Xiaoru Yuan
VAST IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Berlin, Germany (Poster)
Manuscript Preview
Visual Analysis for Subgroups in a Dynamic Network

Visual Analysis for Subgroups in a Dynamic Network

Qi Ma, Chuangming Huang, Liwenhan Xie, Zhiyi Yin, Xiaoru Yuan
VAST Challenge IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Berlin, Germany (Poster)
DOI Website Video