About

With the soaring development of online communities, such as social media (e.g., Twitter, Flickr, Weibo, WeChat, etc.) and a variety of games, a large number of messages, texts, and multi-dimensional data are generated, which offer a precious channel for researchers to inspect and reflect social behaviors of online community users. Hence, there is a lot of opportunities on visualization and visual analytics on these data. HKUST VisLab SNG aims on three aspects of online community: social media, texts and games. By leveraging visualization and visual analytics techniques, we develop principles, methods, and tools to support visual interaction between humans and machine, allowing human-in-the-loop to enable them to couple their unique capabilities (e.g., domain knowledge, creative insights and logic thinking), while maximizing the computational power of machines, to generate valuable knowledge from large and complex data.

Research Areas

Social Media

Cascade prediction, information propagation and diffusion, loyalty dynamics, topic competition/evolution, ranking changes, etc.

Text

Conversational data/evolution, online forum data, research citation data, online review/feedback data, family genealogy, text corpora analysis, classic music, etc.

Games

Co-design of an interactive system, egocentric network evolution analysis, game team dynamics, game design analysis, etc.

Our Team

Huamin Qu Professor
Quan Li Ph.D Candidate
Dong Sun Ph.D Student
Meng Xia Ph.D Student
Siwei Fu Ph.D, Join IBM Research-Almaden

Collaboration

hkust
wechat
netease
sina
hku
msra
fxpal

Projects

All Social Media Text Games

Publications

li_tvcg2019
WeSeer: Visual Analysis for Better Information Cascade Prediction of WeChat Articles.
Quan Li, Ziming Wu, Lingling Yi, Kristanto Sean N, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2867776 (To appear).

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li_tvcg16
T-cal: Understanding team conversational data with calendar-based visualization.
Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Hao-Fei Cheng, Haiyi Zhu, and Jennifer Marlow
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018: 500.

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li_vis18
EmbeddingVis: A Visual Analytics Approach to Comparative Network Embedding Inspection.
Quan Li, Kristanto Sean N, Hammad Haleem, Qiaoan Chen, Chris Yi, and Xiaojuan Ma.
Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2018 (VAST 2018) (to appear), Berlin, Germany, Oct 21-26, 2018.
[ paper ] [ About XAI-VIS@HKUST ]

li_tvcg16
VisForum: A visual analysis system for exploring user groups in online forums.
Siwei Fu, Yong Wang, Yi Yang, Qingqing Bi, Fangzhou Guo, and Huamin Qu
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2018, 8(1): 3.

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li_dis18
A Multi-Phased Co-design of an Interactive Analytics System for MOBA Game Occurrences.
Quan Li, Ziming Wu, Peng Xu, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2018), Hong Kong, June 9-13, 2018.

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li_tvcg16
Visualizing Research Impact Through Citation Data.
Yong Wang, Conglei Shi, Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong and Huamin Qu.
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2018, 8(1): 5.

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li_tvcg16
Towards Easy Comparison of Local Businesses Using Online Reviews.
Yong Wang, Hammad Haleem, Conglei Shi, Yanhong Wu, Xun Zhao, Siwei Fu and Huamin Qu.
Computer Graphics Forum. 2018, 37(3): 63-74.

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li_tvcg16
How do ancestral traits shape family trees over generations?
Siwei Fu, Hao Dong, Weiwei Cui, Jian Zhao, and Huamin Qu
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2018, 24(1): 205-214.

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li_pvis17
A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding Egocentric Intimacy Network Evolution and Impact Propagation in MMORPGs.
Quan Li, Qiaomu Shen, Yao Ming, Peng Xu, Yun Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu.
Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2017), Seoul, South Korea, April 18-21, 2017.

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li_tvcg16
A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding Reasons behind Snowballing and Comeback in MOBA Games.
Quan Li, Peng Xu, Yeuk Yin Chan, Yun Wang, Zhipeng Wang, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598415.

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li_tvcg16
Visual Analysis of Mooc Forums with iForum.
Siwei Fu, Jian Zhao, Weiwei Cui, and Huamin Qu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2017 (1): 1-1.

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li_tvcg16
NameClarifier: A Visual Analytics System for Author Name Disambiguation.
Qiaomu Shen, Tongshuang Wu, Haiyan Yang, Yanhong Wu, Huamin Qu, and Weiwei Cui
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2017 (1): 141-150.

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li_tvcg16
LoyalTracker: Visualizing Loyalty Dynamics in Search Engines.
Conglei Shi, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), pages 1733 - 1742, 2014

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li_tvcg16
Visual Analysis of Topic Competition on Social Media.
Panpan Xu, Yingcai Wu, Enxun Wei, Tai-Quan Peng, Shixia Liu, Jonathan J. H. Zhu, and Huamin Qu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 19(12):2012-2021, 2013

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li_tvcg16
Visual Analysis of Retweeting Propagation Network in a Microblogging Platform.
Quan Li, Li Chen, Junhai Yong, Huamin Qu, Robert Wang, and Detan Si.
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI'13), Pages 44-53.

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li_tvcg16
RankExplorer: Visualization of Ranking Changes in Large Time Series Data.
Conglei Shi, Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Panpan Xu, Wei Chen, and Huamin Qu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 18(12):2669-2678, 2012

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li_tvcg16
Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Diffusion in Real Time.
Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Xiaohua Sun, David Lazer, Shixia Liu, and Huamin Qu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 18(12):2649-2658, 2012

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li_tvcg16
Watch the Story Unfold with TextWheel: Visualization of Large-Scale News Streams.
Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, Wenbin Zhang, and Steven Skiena
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2012, 3(2): 20.

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li_tvcg16
TextFlow: Towards Better Understanding of Evolving Topics in Text.
Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Li Tan, Conglei Shi, Yangqiu Song, Zekai Gao, Huamin Qu, and Xin Tong
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2011, 17(12): 2412-2421.

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li_tvcg16
DICON: Interactive Visual Analysis of Multidimensional Clusters.
Nan Cao, David Gotz, Jimeng Sun, and Huamin Qu
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2011, 17(12): 2581-2590.

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li_tvcg16
Context preserving dynamic word cloud visualization.
Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle X. Zhou, and Huamin Qu
2010 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2010: 121-128.

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li_tvcg16
OpinionSeer: Interactive Visualization of Hotel Customer Feedback.
Yingcai Wu, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Norman Au, Weiwei Cui, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2010, 16(6): 1109-1118.

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li_tvcg16
FacetAtlas: Multifaceted Visualization for Rich Text Corpora.
Nan Cao, Jimeng Sun, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz, Shixia Liu, and Huamin Qu
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2010, 16(6): 1172-1181.

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li_tvcg16
Visualizing the Semantic Structure in Classical Music Works.
Wing-Yi Chan, Huamin Qu, and Wai-Ho Mak
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2010, 16(1): 161-173.

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