2024

Yang Shi, Yechun Peng, Shengqi Dang, Nanxuan Zhao, Nan Cao
Personalizing Products with Stylized Head Portraits for Self-Expression
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2024)

paper | video | website |

Qing Chen, Wei Shuai, Jiyao Zhang, Zhida Sun, Nan Cao
Beyond Numbers: Creating Analogies to Enhance Data Comprehension and Communication with Generative AI
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2024)

paper | explorer

Guanhong Liu, Qingyuan Shi, Yuan Yao, Yuanling Feng, Tianyu Yu, Beituo Liu, Zhijun Ma, Li Huang, Yuting Diao
Learning from Hybrid Craft: Investigating and Reflecting on Innovating and Enlivening Traditional Craft through Literature Review
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2024)

paper

2023

Xingyu Lan, Yanqiu Wu, Nan Cao
Affective Visualization Design: Leveraging the Emotional Power of Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2023) ( Best Paper)

paper | explorer

Yang Shi, Bingchang Chen, Ying Chen, Zhuochen Jin, Ke Xu, Xiaohan Jiao, Tian Gao, Nan Cao
Supporting Guided Exploratory Visual Analysis on Time Series Data with Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2023)

paper | presentataion | demo

Yifang Wang, Yifan Qian, Xiaoyu Qi, Nan Cao, Dashun Wang
InnovationInsights: A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding the Dual Frontiers of Science and Technology
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2023) ( Honorable Mention)

paper

Qing Chen, Nan Chen, Wei Shuai, Guande Wu, Zhe Xu, Hanghang Tong, Nan Cao
Calliope-Net: Automatic Generation of Graph Data Facts via Annotated Node-link Diagrams
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis 2023)

paper | demo

Yi Guo, Nan Cao, Xiaoyu Qi, Haoyang Li, Danqing Shi, Jing Zhang, Qing Chen, Daniel Weiskopf
Enhancing Natural Language-Based Data Exploration with Analysis Pipeline Illustration
IEEE VIS 2023 (Honorable Mention)

poster

Nanxuan Zhao, Shengqi Dang, Hexun Lin, Yang Shi, Nan Cao
Bring Clipart to Life
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2023)

paper | poster

Qing Chen, Shixiong Cao, Jiazhe Wang, Nan Cao
How Does Automation Shape the Process of Narrative Visualization: A Survey of Tools
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

paper | explorer

Yang Shi, Tian Gao, Xiaohan Jiao, Nan Cao
Understanding Design Collaboration Between Designers and Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Literature Review
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW2023)

paper | presentation | explorer | media

2022

Mengdi Sun, Ligan Cai, Weiwei Cui, Yanqiu Wu, Yang Shi, Nan Cao
Erato: Cooperative Data Story Editing via Fact Interpolation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2022)

paper | video | presentation | demo | website

Yang Shi, Tian Gao, Xiaohan Jiao, Nan Cao
Breaking the Fourth Wall of Data Stories through Interaction
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2022) ( Honorable Mention)

paper | presentation | explorer

Yang Shi, Pei Liu, Siji Chen, Mengdi Sun, Nan Cao
Supporting Expressive and Faithful Pictorial Visualization Design with Visual Style Transfer
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2022) ( Honorable Mention)

paper | video | presentation | explorer

Yixuan Li, Yusheng Qi, Yang Shi, Qing Chen, Nan Cao, Siming Chen
Diverse Interaction Recommendation for Public Users Exploring Multi-view Visualization using Deep Learning
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2022)

paper

Yang Shi, Siji Chen, Pei Liu, Jiang Long, Nan Cao
ColorCook: Augmenting Color Design for Dashboarding with Domain-Associated Palettes
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW2022)

paper | video | presentation | explorer

Xingyu Lan, Yanqiu Wu, Yang Shi, Qing Chen, Nan Cao
Negative Emotions, Positive Outcomes? Exploring the Communication of Negativity in Serious Data Stories
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2022)

paper | video | presentation | explorer

2021

Yi Guo, Shunan Guo, Zhuochen Jin, Smiti Kaul, David Gotz, Nan Cao
A Survey on Visual Analysis of Event Sequence Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

paper

Qing Chen, Fuling Sun, Xinyue Xu, Zui Chen, Jiazhe Wang, Nan Cao
VizLinter: A Linter and Fixer Framework for Data Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2021)

paper | video | presentation | demo | website

Leni Yang, Xian Xu, Xingyu Lan, Ziyan Liu, Shunan Guo, Yang Shi, Huamin Qu, Nan Cao
A Design Space for Applying the Freytag’s Pyramid Structure to Data Stories
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2021)

paper | video | presentation | explorer

Xingyu Lan, Yang Shi, Yanqiu Wu, Xiaohan Jiao, Nan Cao
Kineticharts: Augmenting Affective Expressiveness of Charts in Data Stories with Animation Design
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2021)

paper | video | presentation | explorer

Smiti Kaul, David Borland, Nan Cao, David Gotz
Improving Visualization Interpretation Using Counterfactuals
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Vis2021)

paper

Shunan Guo, Zhuochen Jin, Qing Chen, Hongyuan Zha, David Gotz, Nan Cao
Interpretable Anomaly Detection in Event Sequences via Sequence Matching and Visual Comparison
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

paper

Danqing Shi, Fuling Sun, Xinyue Xu, Xingyu Lan, David Gotz, Nan Cao
AutoClips: An Automatic Approach to Video Generation from Data Facts
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis 2021)

paper | video | presentation | demo

Qinghai Zhou, Liangyue Li, Nan Cao, Lei Ying, Hanghang Tong
Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Network Mining: Problem Definition and Fast Solutions
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

paper

Xingyu Lan, Yang Shi, Yueyao Zhang, Nan Cao
Smile or Scowl? Looking at Infographic Design Through the Affective Lens
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE PacificVis 2021)

paper | presentation | explorer

Lecheng Zheng, Yu Cheng, Hongxia Yang, Nan Cao, Jingrui He
Deep Co-Attention Network for Multi-View Subspace Learning
In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW2021)

paper

Qinghai Zhou, Liangyue Li, Xintao Wu, Nan Cao, Lei Ying, Hanghang Tong
Attent: Active Attributed Network Alignment
In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW2021)

paper

Yang Shi, Zhaorui Li, Lingfei Xu, Nan Cao
Understanding the Design Space for Animated Narratives Applied to Illustrations
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2021 EA)

paper | poster | video | presentation | explorer

Shunan Guo, Zhuochen Jin, Fuling Sun, Jingwen Li, Zhaorui Li, Yang Shi, Nan Cao
Vinci: An Intelligent Graphic Design System forGenerating Advertising Posters
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2021)

paper | video | presentation | demo

Xingyu Lan, Xinyue Xu, Nan Cao
Understanding Narrative Linearity for Telling ExpressiveTime-Oriented Stories
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2021)

paper | video | presentation

Yang Shi, Xingyu Lan, Jingwen Li, Zhaorui Li, Nan Cao
Communicating with Motion: A Design Space for Animated Visual Narratives in Data Videos
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2021)

paper | video | presentation | explorer

2020

Zhuochen Jin, Nan Cao, Yang Shi, Wenchao Wu, Yingcai Wu
EcoLens: Visual Analysis of Ecological Regions in Urban Contexts Using Traffic Data
ChinaVis 2020 (Best Paper), Journal of Visualization (JOV)

paper | video

Danqing Shi, Xinyue Xu, Fuling Sun, Yang Shi, Nan Cao
Calliope: Automatic Visual Data Story Generation from a Spreadsheet
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE InfoVis2020)

paper | video | presentation | demo

Zhuochen Jin, Shunan Guo, Nan Chen, Daniel Weiskopf, David Gotz, Nan Cao
Visual Causality Analysis of Event Sequence Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST2020)

paper | video | presentation

Yang Shi, Nan Cao, Xiaojuan Ma, Siji Chen, Pei Liu
EmoG: Supporting the Sketching of Emotional Expressions for Storyboarding
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2020)

paper | video | presentation

Yang Shi, Yuyin Liu, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He, Gang Yan, Cao Nan
Visual Analytics of Anomalous User Behaviors: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)

paper

Meijia Wang, Jian Kang, Cao Nan, Yinglong Xia, Wei Fan, Hanghang Tong
Graph Ranking Auditing: Problem Definition and Fast Solutions
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

paper

Danqing Shi, Yang Shi, Xinyue Xu, Nan Chen, Siwei Fu, Hongjin Wu, Nan Cao
Task-Oriented Optimal Sequencing of Visualization Charts
IEEE Visualization in Data Science (VDS2019)

paper | presentation

2019

Zhuochen Jin, Shuyuan Cui, Shunan Guo, David Gotz, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao
CarePre: An Intelligent Clinical Decision Assistance System
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

paper | video | demo

Yang Shi, Maoran Xu, Rongwen Zhao, Hao Fu, Tongshuang Wu, Nan Cao
Interactive Context-Aware Anomaly Detection Guided by User Feedback
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (HMS)

paper | video

Nan Cao
信息可视化及可视分析在智慧医疗领域的应用(中文邀稿)
中国计算机学会通讯 数据可视化的新疆界专题

paper

Shunan Guo, Fan Du, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Sungchul Kim, Zhicheng Liu, Donghyun Kim, Hongyuan Zha, Nan Cao
Visualizing Uncertainty and Alternatives in Event Sequence Predictions
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2019)

paper | video | slides

Nan Cao, Xin Yan, Yang Shi, Chaoran Chen
AI-Sketcher: A Deep Generative Model for Generating High Quality Sketches
In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2019)

paper | dataset | poster | slides | demo

Shunan Guo, Zhuochen Jin, David Gotz, Fan Du, Hongyuan Zha, Nan Cao
Visual Progression Analysis of Event Sequence Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST2019)

paper | video | slides

Ke Xu, Meng Xia, Xing Mu, Yun Wang, Nan Cao
EnsembleLens: Ensemble-based Visual Exploration of Anomaly Detection Algorithms with Multidimensional Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST2019)

paper | video

2018

Wenchao Wu, Yixian Zheng, Kaiyuan Chen, Xiangyu Wang, Nan Cao
A Visual Analytics Approach for Equipment Condition Monitoring in Smart Factories of Process Industry
IEEE PacificVis 2018

paper

Chaoguang Lin, Qiuhan Zhu, Shunan Guo, Zhuochen Jin, Yu-Ru Lin, Nan Cao
Anomaly detection in spatiotemporal data via regularized non-negative tensor analysis
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2018

paper

Yang Shi, Xin Yan, Xiaojuan Ma, Yongqi Lou, Nan Cao
Designing Emotional Expressions of Conversational States for Voice Assistants: Modality and Engagement
ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts 2018

paper | poster | video

Ke Xu, Shunan Guo, Nan Cao, David Gotz, Aiwen Xu, Huamin Qu, Zhenjie Yao, Yixin Chen
ECGLens: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Scale ECG Data for Arrhythmia Detection
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2018) (Honorable Mention)

paper | video

Xiao Xie, Xiwen Cai, Junpei Zhou, Nan Cao, Yingcai Wu
A Semantic-based Method for Visualizing Large Image Collections
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

paper | video

Yang Shi, Chris Bryan, Sridatt Bhamidipati, Ying Zhao, Yaoxue Zhang, Kwan-Liu Ma
MeetingVis: Visual Narratives to Assist in Recalling Meeting Context and Content
IEEE PacificVis 2018 (Honorable Mention), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE PacificVis2018)

paper | video

Nan Cao, Chaoguang Lin, Qiuhan Zhu, Yu-Ru Lin, Xian Teng, Xidao Wen
Voila: Visual Anomaly Detection and Monitoring with Streaming Spatiotemporal Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST2018)

paper | video

Shunan Guo, Ke Xu, Rongwen Zhao, David Gotz, Hongyuan Zha, Nan Cao
EventThread: Visual Summarization and Stage Analysis of Event Sequence Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST2018)

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2017

Yingcai Wu, Zhutian Chen, Guodao Sun, Xiao Xie, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Weiwei Cui
StreamExplorer: A Multi-Stage System for Visually Exploring Events in Social Streams
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

paper | video

David Gotz, Shun Sun, Nan Cao, Rita Kundu, Anne-Marie Meyer
Adaptive Contextualization Methods for Combating Selection Bias during High-Dimensional Visualization
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

paper

Hanfei Lin, Siyuan Gao, David Gotz, Fan Du, Jingrui He, Nan Cao
RCLens: Interactive Rare Category Exploration and Identification
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST 2017)

paper | video

Yang Shi, Yang Wang, Ye Qi, John Chen, Xiaoyao Xu, Kwan-Liu Ma
IdeaWall: Improving Creative Collaboration through Combinatorial Visual Stimuli
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017)

paper

Boxin Du, Si Zhang, Nan Cao, Hanghang Tong
FIRST: Fast Interactive Attributed Subgraph Matching
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2017)

paper | video

Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong, Yong Wang, Conglei Shi, Nan Cao, Norbou Buchler
Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2017)

paper | video

Fan Du, Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Panpan Xu, Hanghang Tong
iSphere: Focus+Context Sphere Visualization for Interactive Large Graph Exploration
In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI2017)

paper | video

Dawei Zhou, Arun Karthikeyan, Kangyang Wang, Nan Cao, Jingrui He
Discovering rare categories from graph streams
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2017

paper

Liangyue Li, Hanghang Tong, Nan Cao, Kate Ehrlich, Yu-Ru Lin, Norbou Buchler
Enhancing Team Composition in Professional Networks: Problem Definitions and Fast Solutions
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

paper

Wenchao Wu, Yixian Zheng, Nan Cao, Haipeng Zeng, Bing Ni, Huamin Qu, Lionel M. Ni
MobiSeg: Interactive Region Segmentation Using Heterogeneous Mobility Data
IEEE PasificVis 2017

paper | video

Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz, Fan Du
Z-Glyph: Visualizing Outliers in Multivariate Data
Information Visualization

paper

2016

Yixian Zheng, Wenchao Wu, Haipeng Zeng, Nan Cao, Huamin Qu, Mingxuan Yuan, Jia Zeng, and Lionel M. Ni
TelcoFlow: Visual Exploration of Collective Behaviors Based on Telco Data
IEEE Big Data 2016

paper | video

Zhida Sun, Mingfei Sun, Nan Cao, Xiaojuan Ma
VideoForest: Interactive Visual Summarization of Video Streams Based on Danmu Data
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

paper | video

Xiaojuan Ma, Nan Cao
Video-based Evanescent, Anonymous, Asynchronous Social Interaction: Motivation and Adaption to Medium
ACM CSCW 2017

paper

Yanhong Wu, Nan Cao, Daniel Archambault, Huamin Qu, Weiwei Cui
Evaluation of Graph Sampling: A Visualization Perspective
IEEE InfoVis 2016

paper

Yixian Zheng, Wenchao Wu,Shun Sun, Nan Cao, Huamin Qu
Focus+Context Grouping for Animated Transitions
ChinaVis 2016 (Honorable Mention)

paper | video

Panpan Xu, Nan Cao, John Stasko, Huamin Qu
Interactive Visual Co-Cluster Analysis of Bipartite Graphs
IEEE PasificVis 2016

paper

David Gotz, Shun Sun, Nan Cao
Adaptive Contextualization: Combating Bias During High-Dimensional Visualization and Data Selection
ACM IUI 2016 (Best Paper)

paper | video

2015



Nan Cao, Conglei Shi, Sabrina Lin, Jie Lu, Yu-Ru Lin, Ching-Yung Lin
TargetVue : Visual Analysis of Anomalous User Behaviors in Online Communication Systems
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST 2015)

paper| video | homepage

Nan Cao,Yu-Ru Lin, Fan Du, Dashun Wang
Episogram: Visual Summarization of Egocentric Social Interactions
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

paper | video | ppt

Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz
UnTangle Map: Visual Analysis of Probabilistic Multi-Label Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

paper | video | homepage

Xiangmin Fan, Youming Liu, Nan Cao, Jason Hong, Jingtao Wang
MindMiner: A Mixed-Initiative Interface for Interactive Distance Metric Learning
INTERACT 2015

Xiangmin Fan, Youming Liu, Nan Cao, Jason Hong, Jingtao Wang
MindMiner: Quantifying Entity Similarity via Interactive Distance Metric Learning (demo paper)
IUI 2015

paper | video

Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Liangyue Li, HangHang Tong, g-Miner: Interactive Visual Group Mining on Multivariate Graphs, ACM CHI 2015
Liangyue Li, HangHang Tong, Nan Cao, Kate Ehrlich, Yu-Ru Lin and Norbou Buchler, Replacing the Irreplaceable: Fast Algorithms for Team Member Recommendation, WWW 2015

CHI paper | WWW paper | video

Fan Du, Nan Cao, Nan Cao, Jian Zhao, Yu-Ru Lin.
Trajectory Bundling for Animated Transitions
ACM CHI 2015

paper | video

Nan Cao, Lu Lu, Yu-Ru Lin, Fei Wang, Zhen Wen
SocialHelix: Visual Analysis of Sentiment Divergence in Social Media
Journal of Visualization

paper | video

2014

Nan Cao, David Gotz, and Lu Lu
UnTangle: Visual Mining for Data with Uncertain Multi-labels via Triangle Map
ICDM 2014

paper | video | slides | homepage

Jian Zhao, Nan Cao, Zhen Wen, Yale Song, Yu-Ru Lin and Christopher Collins
FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media
IEEE VAST 2014 (Honorable Mention)

paper | video

Lu Lu, Nan Cao, Siyuan Liu, Lionel Ni, Xiaoru Yuan, and Huamin Qu
MVisual Analysis of Uncertainty in Trajectories
PaKDD 2014

paper

2013

Panpan Xu, Fan Du, Nan Cao, Conglei Shi, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu
Visual Analysis of Set Relations in a Graph, Computer Graphics Forum
EuroVis 2013

paper

2012

Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Xiaohua Sun, David Lazer, Shixia Liu, and Huamin Qu
Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Diffusion in Real Time
IEEE InfoVis 2012

paper| video | ppt

2011


Nan Cao, David Gotz, Jimeng Sun, Yu-Ru Lin, and Huamin Qu
SolarMap: Multifaceted Visual Analytics for Topic Exploration
IEEE ICDM 2011

paper| video | ppt

Nan Cao,David Gotz, Jimeng Sun, and Huamin Qu
DICON : Interactive Visual Analysis of Multidimensional Clusters
IEEE InfoVis 2011

paper | video | ppt | online demo

Wei Wei, Nan Cao, Jon Atle Gulla, and Huamin Qu
Visual Analysis of the Impact of Online News
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2011

paper | video

2010

Nan Cao, Jimeng Sun, Yu-Ru Lin, David Gotz, Shixia Liu, and Huamin Qu
FacetAtlas: Multifacet Visualization for Rich Text Corpora
IEEE InfoVis 2010

paper| video | ppt

Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao,and Shixia Liu
ContexTour: Contextual Contour Visual Analysis on Dynamic Multi-Relational Clustering
SDM 2010

paper

before 2010

Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Spiros Papadimitriou, Jimeng Sun, and Xifeng Yan
SmallBlue: Social Network Analysis for Expertise Search and Collective Intelligence
IEEE ICDE 2009

paper

Lei Shi, Nan Cao,Shixia Liu, Weihong Qian, Li Tan, Guodong Wang, Jimeng Sun, and Ching-Yung Lin
HiMap: Adaptive visualization of large-scale online social networks
IEEE PacificVis 2009

paper



Jimeng Sun, Spiros Papadimitriou, Ching-Yung Lin, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, and Weihong Qian
Content-based Social Network Exploration Through Multi-way Visual Analysis
SDM 2009

paper

Shixia Liu, Nan Cao,and Hao Lv
Interactive Visual Analysis of the NSF Funding Information
IEEE PacificVis 2008

paper

Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, and Hui Su
Peony : A Light Weighted Interactive InfoVis Toolkit
HCHI 2006

paper