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

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 (Defence)
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
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I obtained my doctoral degree from the Human-Computer Interaction Initiative, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I was under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojuan Ma. My primary research interest lies in Human-Engaged Computing. I focus on

  • Bridging the gulfs among human-computer communications with metaphors
  • Assisting exploratory and explanatory data analysis with visualization and storytelling techniques
  • Leveraging sensor-captured signals to maintain users' physical and mental health automatically
  • Fostering user engagement and wellbeing in a digital experience with positive computing

Publications

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Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings
Zhida Sun, Sitong Wang, Chengzhong Liu, and Xiaojuan Ma.
TOCHI ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2022.

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

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MetaMap: Supporting Visual Metaphor Ideation through Multi-dimensional Example-based Exploration
Youwen Kang*, Zhida Sun*, Sitong Wang, Zeyu Huang, Ziming Wu, and Xiaojuan Ma.
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
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]

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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]

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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]

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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] [intro: bilibili]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

[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
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2021
Conference Reviewer
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017 - 2022
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

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