Zhida Sun

	Human-Computer Interaction Initiative Department of Computer Science and Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Room 4203, Lift 19, Academic Buildings
	zhida.sun at connect dot ust dot hk
	I am zhdsun @ Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Behance, Vimeo

Updates

May/20: Pass the PhD Thesis Proposal Defence (Proposal)
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 gets accepted by CHI'18
Jan/18: Pass the PhD Qualifying Exam (PQE)
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 gets accepted by CHI'17
Dec/16: Present our 'Danmu visualization' work in SIGGRAPH Asia'16 @ Macao

Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate at Human-Computer Interaction Initiative, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I am under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojuan Ma. Prior to that, I obtained my master degree (M.Sc.) in Information Systems from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and my bachelor degree (B.B.A.) in Management Information Systems from Northeastern University (NEU). My major research interest is Human-Engaged Computing, including:

Bridging the gulfs among human-computer communications with metaphors
Assisting exploratory and explanatory data analysis with visualization and storytelling techniques
Fostering user engagement and wellbeing in a digital experience with positive computing

I am available on the job market.

Publications

"A Postcard from Your Food Journey in the Past": Promoting Self-Reflection on Social Food Posting

Zhida Sun, Sitong Wang, Wenjie Yang, Onur Yürüten, Chuhan Shi, and Xiaojuan Ma.

DIS Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020.

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

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]

VoiceCoach: Interactive Evidence-based Training for Voice Modulation Skills in Public Speaking

Xingbo Wang, Haipeng Zeng, Yong Wang, Aoyu Wu, Zhida Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu.

CHI Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020.

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

DataShot: Automatic Generation of Fact Sheets from Tabular Data

Yun Wang*, Zhida Sun*, Haidong Zhang, Weiwei Cui, Ke Xu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Dongmei Zhang.

TVCG InfoVis IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019.

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

Mediating Color Filter Exploration with Color Theme Semantics Derived from Social Curation Data

Ziming Wu, Zhida Sun, Taewook Kim, Manuele Reani, Caroline Jay, and Xiaojuan Ma.

CSCW Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2018.

[project page] [paper] [link]

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]

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]

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

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

[video]

Academic Services

Journal Reviewer

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (AIHC), 2017

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018

Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 2018, 2020

Computers & Graphics, 2019

Conference Reviewer

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017 - 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

IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis), 2020

Student Volunteer

The International Symposium of Chinese CHI, 2018

ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2018

Experience

Dec. 2018 - Apr. 2019

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

Feb. 2017 - Now

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

Fall 2019/20: COMP3711H Honors Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring 2017/18: COMP4431 Multimedia Computing
Fall 2017/18: COMP4461 Human-Computer Interaction; [Lab 2] [Lab 3] [Lab 4]
Spring 2016/17: COMP1022P Introduction to Computing with Java

Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2017

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

Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2016

Research Assistant, Human-Computer Interaction Initiative
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Jan. 2015 - Sep. 2015

Analyst Programmer, Business Department
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd., Hong Kong

Jun. 2013 - Jan. 2015

Research Assistant, Noah's Ark Lab
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Hong Kong