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Visual Computing Research Center
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Shenzhen University

Yuehai Campus, 3688 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen

zhida.sun at connect dot ust dot hk

zhida.sun at szu dot edu dot cn

I am zhdsun @ Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Behance, Vimeo

[DBLP] [Google Scholar] [ORCID]

Updates

Jul/24
Graph simplification via adaptive motif design @ VIS'24
Jul/24
Visual analysis system for UAV path planning @ CAD/CG'24
Mar/24
Understanding anthropomorphism in chatbot system @ CHI LBW'24
Mar/24
Creating visual analogies with data @ CHI'24
Mar/24
Visual design for amplifying music listening experience through song comments @ Journal of Visualization
Dec/23
Probing vision transformer with interactive visualization @ ICDMW'23

Jan/23
Our work 'IntimaSea' gets accepted by CHI'23
Nov/22
Receive a 'Special Recognition' from CHI'23 review
Jan/22
Our work 'Metaphoraction' gets accepted by TOCHI'22
May/21
Attend CHI'21 @ Virtual
Dec/20
Our work 'MetaMap' gets accepted by CHI'21
Nov/20
Receive a 'Special Recognition' from CHI'21 review
July/20
Pass the PhD Thesis Defence
May/20
Pass the PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
Apr/20
Our work 'A Postcard from Your Food Journey in the Past' gets accepted by DIS'20
Mar/20
Our work 'Fostering Engagement in Technology-Mediated Stress Management' gets accepted by IJHCS'20
Dec/19
Our work 'VoiceCoach' gets accepted by CHI'20
Jun/19
Our work 'DataShot' gets accepted by IEEE InfoVis'19
Dec/18
Start my internship @ MSRA, Beijing
Nov/18
Receive Two 'Special Recognition's from CHI'19 review
Jun/18
Attend DIS'18 @ Hong Kong as a volunteer
Apr/18
Attend CHI'18 @ Montreal
Feb/18
Our Late-Breaking Work on scale exploration in AR gets accepted by CHI'18
Jan/18
Pass the PhD Qualifying Exam
Nov/17
Receive a 'Special Recognition' from CHI'18 review
Jun/17
Start my oversea exchange @ EPFL, Lausanne
May/17
Attend CHI'17 @ Denver
Feb/17
Our Late-Breaking Work on biofeedback design gets accepted by CHI'17
Dec/16
Present our 'Danmu visualization' work in SIGGRAPH Asia'16 @ Macao

I serve as a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), Shenzhen University (SZU), and I am also affiliated with the Visual Computing Research Center (VCC). I obtained my doctoral degree from the Human-Computer Interaction Initiative, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where I was under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojuan Ma. My primary research interest revolves around the field of Human-Engaged Computing, with a particular emphasis on:

  • Employing conceptual metaphors to bridge the gaps in human-computer interactions.
  • Facilitating exploratory and explanatory data analysis by leveraging visualization and storytelling techniques.
  • Utilizing sensor-captured data to automatically monitor and support users' physical and mental well-being.
  • Fostering user engagement and overall wellness in digital environments through the principles of positive computing.

Our research center welcomes graduate students and visiting interns/scholars who share a strong interest in these areas. Please get in touch with your resume/CV to learn more about potential opportunities.

Publications

Creative Support with Conceptual Metaphors

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Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings
TOCHI ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2022.

[project page] [pre-print] [link] [gesture survey] [code] [hands-on experience] [presentation: Youtube]

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MetaMap: Supporting Visual Metaphor Ideation through Multi-dimensional Example-based Exploration
CHI Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.

[project page] [code] [paper] [link] [video preview: Youtube] [presentation: Youtube]

Design for Well-being

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"A Postcard from Your Food Journey in the Past": Promoting Self-Reflection on Social Food Posting
DIS Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020.

[project page] [link] [presentation: Youtube] [presentation: Vimeo]

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Fostering Engagement in Technology-Mediated Stress Management: A Comparative Study of Biofeedback Designs
Zhida Sun, Manuele Reani, Quan Li, and Xiaojuan Ma.
IJHCS International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2020.

[project page] [link] [media coverage: HKUST]

Visualization for Data Communication

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DataShot: Automatic Generation of Fact Sheets from Tabular Data
TVCG InfoVis IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019.

[paper] [supplemental material] [link] [media coverage: MSRAsia] [media coverage: ZJU VAG] [media coverage: Zhihu] [intro: bilibili]

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VideoForest: Interactive Visual Summarization of Video Streams Based on Danmu Data
Zhida Sun, Mingfei Sun, Nan Cao, and Xiaojuan Ma.
SA SIGGRAPH ASIA Symposium on Visualization, 2016.

[project page] [paper] [link] [video] [slide]

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Anthropomorphism in Chatbot Systems Between Gender and Individual Differences
CHI EA Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.

[link] [presentation: Youtube]

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Beyond Numbers: Creating Analogies to Enhance Data Comprehension and Communication with Generative AI
Qing Chen, Wei Shuai, Jiyao Zhang, Zhida Sun, and Nan Cao.
CHI Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.

[project page] [link] [video preview: Youtube] [presentation: Youtube]

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Amplifying the Music Listening Experience through Song Comments on Music Streaming Platforms
JVis Journal of Visualization, 2024.

[link]

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EL-VIT: Probing Vision Transformer with Interactive Visualization
ICDMW IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 2023.

[link]

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IntimaSea: Exploring Shared Stress Display in Close Relationships
CHI Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.

[media coverage: UofGlasgow] [video preview: Youtube] [presentation: Youtube]

sun_tochi_22_teaser
Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings
TOCHI ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2022.

[project page] [pre-print] [link] [gesture survey] [code] [hands-on experience] [presentation: Youtube]

kang_chi_21_teaser
MetaMap: Supporting Visual Metaphor Ideation through Multi-dimensional Example-based Exploration
CHI Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.

[project page] [code] [paper] [link] [video preview: Youtube] [presentation: Youtube]

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"A Postcard from Your Food Journey in the Past": Promoting Self-Reflection on Social Food Posting
DIS Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020.

[link] [presentation: Youtube] [presentation: Vimeo]

wang_chi20_teaser
Fostering Engagement in Technology-Mediated Stress Management: A Comparative Study of Biofeedback Designs
Zhida Sun, Manuele Reani, Quan Li, and Xiaojuan Ma.
IJHCS International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2020.

[project page] [link] [media coverage: HKUST]

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VoiceCoach: Interactive Evidence-based Training for Voice Modulation Skills in Public Speaking
CHI Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020.

[project page] [paper] [link] [demo] [presentation: Youtube] [presentation: iQIYI] [slide] [data]

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DataShot: Automatic Generation of Fact Sheets from Tabular Data
TVCG InfoVis IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019.

[paper] [supplemental material] [link] [media coverage: MSRAsia] [media coverage: ZJU VAG] [media coverage: Zhihu] [intro: bilibili]

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Mediating Color Filter Exploration with Color Theme Semantics Derived from Social Curation Data
CSCW Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2018.

[project page] [paper] [link]

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Exploring the Effects of Scale in Augmented Reality-Empowered Visual Analytics
Zhida Sun, Feng Han, and Xiaojuan Ma.
CHI EA Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018.

[project page] [link] [poster]

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Attention, Comprehension, Execution: Effects of Different Designs of Biofeedback Display
Zhida Sun, Nan Cao, and Xiaojuan Ma.
CHI EA Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017.

[project page] [paper] [link] [poster]

siggraphasia16_teaser
VideoForest: Interactive Visual Summarization of Video Streams Based on Danmu Data
Zhida Sun, Mingfei Sun, Nan Cao, and Xiaojuan Ma.
SA SIGGRAPH ASIA Symposium on Visualization, 2016.

[project page] [paper] [link] [video] [slide]

Project

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Ecological Visualization: Biofeedback Design for Personal Informatics Interfaces
Zhida Sun and Xuanwu Yue.
The International Symposium of Chinese CHI Video Competition, 2017.
Video Honorable Mention Award

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Talks

Seminar Speaker
May. 2024
The Application of Conceptual Metaphors in Visualization Design
HKUSTGZ, Guangzhou.

[CSIG VIS]

Invited Talk
Apr. 2024
Enhancing Creative Ideation with Conceptual Metaphors
GBA HCI Forum (Pre-CHI 2024), Hong Kong.

[link]

Academic Services

Program Committee Member
Associate Program Subcommittee (Area) Chair of CHI Conference, 2023 - 2025
Associate Program Subcommittee (Area) Chair of CSCW Conference, 2024 - 2025
Late Breaking Work Co-chair of the International Symposium of Chinese CHI, 2022
Journal Reviewer
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2024
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 2024
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2021
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 2018, 2020
Computers & Graphics, 2019
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (AIHC), 2017
Conference Reviewer
The China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (ChinaVis), 2023 - 2024
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017 - 2022
IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis), 2020
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2017
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017
ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2017
Student Volunteer
The International Symposium of Chinese CHI, 2018
ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2018

Students

Current Members
Graduated Students
Zhenyao Zhang (Master student, major in Software Engineering, since Fall 2023)
Xuanbin Fang (Master student, major in Artificial Intelligence, since Fall 2023)
Yulin Zhang (Master student, major in Computer Technology, since Summer 2024)
Xiaodong Wang (Master student, major in Computer Technology, since Summer 2024)
Yuhang Zhu (Master student, major in Computer Technology, since Summer 2024)
Research Interns
Yulin Huang (Undergraduate student, major in Automation, since Fall 2023)
Qiyue Wu (Undergraduate student, major in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering, since Summer 2024)
Past Members
Graduated Students
Yue Hu (Master student, major in Computer Technology, co-supervised with Prof. Hui Huang, Winter 2023 - Summer 2024)
Yue Zhang (Undergraduate student, major in Psychology, Fall 2023 - Fall 2024)
Research Interns
Xiangyang He (Master student from CUHKSZ, major in Data Science, Summer 2024)
Xiaolin Guo (Master student from East China Normal University, major in Applied Psychology, co-supervised with Ting Luo [HMI, Huawei], Summer - Fall 2022)

Courses

Postgraduate
Data Visualization (Spring 2024)
Undergraduate
Analysis and Design of Object-Oriented Programming System (Fall 2024)
Field Practice (Fall 2023)
Prior to SZU as teaching assistant
Honors Design and Analysis of Algorithms (COMP3711H, Fall 2019/20)
Multimedia Computing (COMP4431, Spring 2017/18)
Human-Computer Interaction (COMP4461, Fall 2017/18) [Lab 2] [Lab 3] [Lab 4]
Introduction to Computing with Java (COMP1022P, Spring 2016/17)

Experience

Aug. 2020 - Aug. 2023

Researcher, Human-Machine Interaction Lab / Standard and Patent Department
Central Research Institute, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

Dec. 2018 - Apr. 2019

Research Intern, Software Analytics Group
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

Feb. 2017 - Dec. 2019

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR

Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2017

Doctoral Assistant, Human-Computer Interaction Group
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland