Liwenhan Xie | Publications

Designing Interactive Scaffolds for Steering VLM-Powered Visualization Generation

Liwenhan Xie

Ph.D. Dissertation

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DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination

Liwenhan Xie, Jiayi Zhou, Anyi Rao, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu

DIS 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems in Singapore

Best Paper Award

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Collaposer: Transforming Photo Collections into Visual Assets for Storytelling with Collages

Jiayi Zhou, Liwenhan Xie, Jiaju Ma, Zheng Wei, Huamin Qu, Anyi Rao

CHI 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Barcelona, Spain

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DataWink: Reusing and Adapting SVG-based Visualization Examples with Large Multimodal Models

Liwenhan Xie, Yanna Lin, Can Liu, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu

VIS 2025 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

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CAMV: A Framework for Context-Aware Multi-View Visualization of Data Analysis Results

Yanna Lin, Liwenhan Xie, Leixian Shen, Zhuochen Jin, Sicheng Song, Zikun Deng, Huamin Qu, Ke Xu

DSE 2026 Data Science and Engineering

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“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 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Yokohama, Japan

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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 2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in Pittsburgh, USA

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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 2024 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

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OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations

Yu Zhang, Ruike Jiang, Liwenhan Xie, Yuheng Zhao, Can Liu, Tianhong Ding, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan

VIS 2023 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

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

Liwenhan Xie*, Zhaoyu Zhou*, Kerun Yu, Yun Wang, Huamin Qu, Siming Chen

UIST 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in San Francisco, USA

DOI arXiv Website Preview Talk Code Slides (.pptx)

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 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hamburg, Germany

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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 2023 ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies in Cape Town, South Africa -Short Paper

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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 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops in Christchurch, New Zealand (Poster)

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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 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Online

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Interactive Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks

Liwenhan Xie, James O'Donnell, Benjamin Bach, Jean-Daniel Fekete

AVI 2020 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces in Ischia Island, Italy

Honorable Mention Award

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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 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium in Online -Short Paper

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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 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Vancouver, Canada (Poster)

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Automatic Caption Generation for SVG Charts

Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Xiaoru Yuan

PacificVis 2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium in Bangkok, Thailand (Poster)

Manuscript

Visualizing Dynamic Networks of Long Sequences with Pixel Matrix Array

Lijing Lin, Liwenhan Xie, Zhuo Zhang, Xiaoru Yuan

VAST 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Berlin, Germany (Poster)

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Visual Analysis for Subgroups in a Dynamic Network

Qi Ma, Chuangming Huang, Liwenhan Xie, Zhiyi Yin, Xiaoru Yuan

VAST Challenge 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology in Berlin, Germany (Poster)

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