NUS HCI Lab is looking for
various positions in the forms of
PhD students, Research Assistants (or associates), Interns, and
Research Fellows for various projects (CSIDM, COSMIC, AutoComPaste,
and Silver Computing).
We are looking for competent candidates (with strong analytical,
writing, and/or implementation skills).
Please email your CV to join-nus-hci (at) googlegroups.com
if you are interested. In your email, please state what positions you
are interested in, how long can you work, when can you start, and your
long term goals and objectives. Note: We ONLY
accept applicants who can work for 6 months
or more (preferrably one year). Candidates with long term
commitments to the lab, such as PhD candidates, are preferred and
encouraged to start as interns first. We kindly suggest you NOT
emailing us if you are looking for something shorter (unless you already
published some CHI or UIST papers, then we may be able to make special
arrangements).
The
CSIDM-NUS collaboration project is lead by Prof. Ng Hwee Tou. The
project has a need to include elements of Human Computer
Interaction. In particular, there is a need to evaluate the
effectiveness of an integrated prototype system that the project is
building that adds text-to-image generation into speech translation,
as judged by humans using the system. There is also a need to
evaluate the usefulness of component technologies developed in the
project as judged by humans.
In
the COSMIC project, we are looking candidates who are interested in
working on
tools, interfaces, and systems that enhances art and creativity
such as SandCanvas to join our team.
In
the AutoComPaste project, we are looking for candidates who can help
us to build an intelligent copy&paste tool.
Members of the NUS-HCI lab co-author 4 long papers and
2 notes for ACM CHI 2012 (4), EuroVis 2012
(1), and AVI 2012 (1).
Congratulations!
new Vignette:
Interactive Texture Design and Manipulation with Freeform
Gestures for Pen-and-Ink Illustration. Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Takeo
Igarashi,
Shengdong Zhao,
Richard Davis. To appear in CHI2012 (10 pages)
newEnabling
Concurrent Dual Views on Common LCD Screens.Seokhwan Kim,
Xiang Cao, Haimo Zhang,
Desney Tan. To appear in CHI2012 (10 pages)
new Tracing
Tuples Across Dimensions: A Comparison of Scatterplots and
Parallel Coordinate Plots.
Xiaole Kuang, Haimo
Zhang, Shengdong
Zhao, Michael J. McGuffin. To appear in EuroVis2012 (10
pages)
new AutoComPaste:
Auto-Completing Text as an Alternative to Copy-Paste. Shengdong
Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Wei Tsang Ooi, Chee
Yuan Lee, Arpit
Agarwal. To appear in AVI2012 (8 pages)
newExploring
User Motivations for Eyes-free Interaction on Mobile Devices. Bo Yi, Xiang Cao,
Morten Fjeld, Shengdong
Zhao. To appear in CHI2012 (4 pages)
newBeyond
Stereo: An Exploration of Unconventional Binocular Presentation
for Novel Visual Experience. Haimo
Zhang, Xiang Cao, Shengdong
Zhao. To appear in CHI2012 (4 pages)
Kazi Rubaiat Habib won the prestigious Microsoft
Research Asia 2011 Fellowship award. Congratulations, Rubaiat!
SandCanvas' video
wins the Golden Mouse Award in ACM CHI 2011
Farmer's tale
enters the semi-final of the Ideas.INC
business competition and won $15000 dollars for further
development
Members of the NUS-HCI lab co-authored 2 long papers
and 2 notes for ACM CHI 2011.
SandCanvas
and MOGCLASS received
Honorable Mentioned Award in ACM CHI 2011
Source
code for Multi-stroke (single-stroke) Marking Menu is available
for download (See miscellaneous section).
My research field is HCI (Human
Computer Interaction).
I am interested in using HCI methods to solve challenging real world
computing problems in many areas, including mobile HCI (particularly
eyes-free interaction), human-robot interaction, HCI and computer
security, information visualization, gesture and pen based interface,
and interface and interaction for the elderly. My dissertation is
on mobile eyes-free interfaces. I designed an eyes-free menu selection
technique called earPod,
and showed its effectiveness. earPod has received media coverage
from MIT
Technology
Review, May 2007.
Funded Grants
“Alternative Interaction Techniques for Mobile and Ubiquitous
Environment”, R-252-000-375-133, AcRF Tier 1, S$179,590
(~US$132,618) (PI, Startup Grant)
"Multi-dimensional Adaptive Interface for the Aged", WBS
R-252-000-414-101, NUS Young Investigator Award, S$366,000 (~US$270,275)
(PI)
"Research Collaboration between NUS and CSIDM Phase 2", WBS
R-252-100-372-490, S$157,000 (~US121,855) (PI)
"AutoComPaste and Eye-Copy: Enabling Efficient Information Gathering
via Innovative Interaction Techniques", WBS R-252-000-464-112, S$126,600
(~US98,261) (PI)
"Question Answer Social Forum Analysis Project", WBSR-252-000-432-720, Autodesk
Canada, US$20,000 (PI) [Special thanks to George Fitzmaurice and Tovi
Grossman]
"Virtual Fitting Room", WBS R-252-000-467-720, CK Tangs, S$ 5000 (PI)
Schedule
Upcoming travels
July 15th to 18th, Shanghai (to visit my family)
Note: to see the duration of a specific event, please click on a
particular time to view its detail. For example, click on the text "9:30
am busy" will reveal additional information such as "Thu, February, 9:30
am - 11:30 am".
new Rubaiat
Habib Kazi, Takeo Igarashi, Shengdong
Zhao,
Richard Davis (2012). Vignette: Interactive Texture
Design and Manipulation with Freeform
Gestures for Pen-and-Ink Illustration.
To appear in CHI2012 (10 pages)
14.
new Xiaole
Kuang, Haimo Zhang, Shengdong
Zhao, Michael J. McGuffin (2012). Tracing Tuples Across
Dimensions: A Comparison of Scatterplots and Parallel Coordinate
Plots. To appear in EuroVis2012 (10 pages)
13
newShengdong
Zhao, Fanny Chavier, Wei Tsang Ooi, Chee Yuan Lee,
Arpit Agarwal (2012). AutoComPaste: Auto-Completing Text as an
Alternative to Copy-Paste. To appear in AVI2012 (8 pages)
Ken Hinckley, Shengdong Zhao, Raman Sarin, Patrick
Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Michael Shilman, Desney Tan (2007). InkSeine: In Situ Search for
Active Note Taking. Proceedings of theACM
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
pp. 251-260.
Summary: Prototype that supports active note taking
by coupling a pen-and-ink interface with an in situ search
facility that flows directly from a user’s ink notes.
PPT slides of
my presentation at CHI 2007 (Joint presentation with Ed
Cutrell)
Summary: Presents the design and evaluation of
earPod: an eyes-free menu technique using touch input and
auditory feedback. Results indicate that earPod is a
promising technique comparable in performance to visual
menus.
Summary: Presents the Adaptive Hybrid Cursor, a novel
target acquisition technique that assists a user in a target
selection task by automatically adapting the size of the
cursor and/or its contexts (the target size and the
selection background) based on pen pressure input.
Summary: Proposes to use Phosphor objects to instantly
show the outcome of user interactions while explaining
the change in retrospect. A framework of transition designs
for widgets, icons, and objects in drawing programs has been
proposed and evaluated.
Summary: Zone and Polygon menus are two new variants of
multi-stroke marking menus that consider both the relative
position and orientation of strokes. Our menus are designed
to increase menu breadth over the 8 item limit of status quo
orientation-based marking menus. We also discuss hybrid
techniques that may further increase menu breadth and
performance.
CHI
Madness Faster, higher,
stronger is the spirit that makes Olympic Games so
exciting to watch, but I am not good at any of the
sports, so I decided to become a coach. In this year's
world Marking Menu competition, we lead our athletes:
"Zone Menu" and "Polygon Menu", after intensive
training, practicing, sweating, suffering, and crying,
win the game by excellent speed, accuracy, and menu
configuration. Behind every athlete, there is a story!
To listen to the touching stories of Zone and Polygon
Menus, please come to the live broadcast event at 9:30
am prime time on channel "Menus". See you there!
Summary: Considers hybrid graphical representations that
combine node-link and treemap diagrams for the purposes of
tree visualization. The concept of elastic representational
space is introduced. A theoretical analysis yields a
taxonomy of various potential hybrid combinations, and a
prototype system is implemented to experiment with these.
PPT
slides of my
talk on an overview of Tree and Treemap visualizations
(2003).
2.
Shengdong
Zhao, Ravin Balakrishnan. (2004). Simple
vs.
Compound Mark Hierarchical Marking Menus. Proceedings
of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
(UIST). pp. 33-42. [Acceptance rate: 36/170 or 21%.
Received 5,5,5,5 from all reviewers - the highest review
score in UIST 2004.]
Summary: Simple mark technique (multi-stroke marking menu)
is a variant of hierarchical marking menus where items are
selected using a series of straight lines, rather than the
single "zig-zag" compound mark used in the traditional
design. Study shows multi-stroke marking menu increase menu
depth, and is faster and more accurate than the traditional
compound mark technique while requiring less input
space.
Summary: Hunter Gatherer is an interface that lets Web
users carry out three main tasks: (1) collect components
from within Web pages; (2) represent those components in a
collection; (3) edit those component collections. Our
research shows that while the practice of making collections
of content from within Web pages is common, it is not
frequent, due in large part to poor interaction support in
existing tools. We engaged with users in task analysis as
well as iterative design reviews in order to understand the
interaction issues that are part of within-Web-page
collection making and to design an interaction that would
support that process.
Refereed (Short)
Conference Papers
7.
newHaimo
Zhang, Xiang Cao, Shengdong
Zhao (2012). Beyond Stereo: An Exploration for
Unconventional Binocular Presentation for Novel Visual
Experience. To appear in CHI2012 (4 pages)
6.
newBo Yi, Xiang Cao,
Morten Fjeld, Shengdong
Zhao (2012). Exploring User Motivations for Eyes-free
Interaction on Mobile Devices. To appear in CHI2012 (4 pages)
Ransi De Silva Nilaksha, Wei
Cheng, Wei Tsang Ooi,
Shengdong Zhao (2010) Towards
Understanding User Tolerance to Network Latency and Data
Rate in Remote Viewing of Progressive Meshes. The 20th International Workshop on Network and
Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video.
(workshop paper)
2.
Monica Schraefel, Maria Karam, Shengdong
Zhao. Audio Preview Cues: Interaction Aides for
Exploration of Online Music and Beyond. HCI International 2003.
(poster)
OCT2
is a new and improved version of the original OCT system
(software to manage the conference paper submission and
reviewing process) developed by David Gering. OCT2 was used
for the CVPR 2003 paper submission and review process and was
co-developed by Shengdong
Zhao and Kyros
Kutulakos. (application)
3.
DInfoBuilder: (Dynamic Information Builder)
DInfoBuilder
builds the next generation information management software
application. It enables efficient, simple development,
maintenance, and transformation of information systems.
DInfoBuilder allows non-technical personnel to quickly build a
dynamic e-commerce application on the web and wireless
platforms. The resulting applications will be platform
independent, device independent, database independent.
DInfoBuilder will greatly improve the ways information are
organized, presented, interoperated, and interacted. (SIMS
master
project)
2.
Multivalent
Browser:
I built the first version of PDF media adapter by porting xPDF's
code to Java.
This project has evolved to an open source software application.
(code library)
1.
DOE2000 Electronic Notebook:
I worked as a computer system engineer in Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab with
Dr. Sonia Sachs on this project for one year. (application)
Services
Program Committee
International Symposium of Visual Information Communication (VINCI)
2011 (PC member)
APSIPA 2010 (Track chair)
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2010 (PC
member)
International Symposium of Visual Information Communication (VINCI)
2010 (PC member)
Paper Reviewing
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) • 2004-11
ACM Symposium on User Interface and Software Technologies (UIST) •
2008-10
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) • 2009
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI) • 2011
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)• 2009
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) • 2010
IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis)• 2009
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies • 2007-08
IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces • 2008
Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis • 2006
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction • 2005-06
ROUDAKI Amin (Intern, May-Aug, 2009, Amin is now a computer
science PhD student in North Dakota State University)
SHI Xiaoming (Intern from Zhejiang University, August 2009 - April
2010, Shi Xiaoming will join University of Wisconsin-Madison as a
computer science PhD student)
MAGHAREH Sajjad (NUS)
ADIBUZZAMAN Mohammad
ZHAO Mengyao (NTU)
Arpit Agarwala (UIUC)
Undergraduate students
LEE Chee Yuan (FYP)
LIM Yu Kai, Eric (FYP)
SIM Jianqiang Don (FYP)
CHUNG Win Kei, David (FYP)
YAP Keng Chuan (FYP)
PUA Jun Hong (FYP)
UNG Juliana (UROP)
CHAN Hui Yi Kristal (FYP)
ENG Wan Song (FYP)
FAN Roufang (FYP)
HA Thuy Ngoc (FYP)
HO Yit Chun (FYP)
KHOO Jing Ting (FYP)
VIN Kel (FYP)
CHUA Chris (UROP)
Direction to NUS and My
Office
Our lab is located at: Media Lab 9, COM2-01-04, 15 Computing
Drive, National University of Singapore, 117418, Singapore
If you are driving or taking a taxi:
From the city
Drive along the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) towards Jurong
Exit at Clementi Road (AYE Exit 9)
Travel southward along Clementi Road for another 500m
Turn left into Kent Ridge Crescent (after passing the School of
Design & Environment on your left)
After 100m, turn right into Kent Ridge Drive
Turn left into Computing Drive, and proceed along it to *Carpark
13 (for passengers to alight) * As Carpark 13 has been designated for
staff parking, external parties using it will have to pay a
much higher fee. Members of the public
visiting the School may wish to park at Carpark 15, the nearest
visitors' carpark. More about parking on
campus may be found here
From Jurong
Drive along Clementi Road towards Pasir Panjang Road
Turn left into Kent Ridge Crescent (after passing the School of
Design & Environment on your left)
After 100m, turn right into Kent Ridge Drive
Turn left into Computing Drive, and proceed along it to *Carpark
13 (for passengers to alight) * As Carpark 13 has been designated for
staff parking, external parties using it will have to pay a
much higher fee. Members of the public
visiting the School may wish to park at Carpark 15, the nearest
visitors' carpark. More about parking on
campus may be found
here
If you are taking the bus...
Option 1:
Take bus services 95 or 151 towards the direction of Kent Ridge
campus
Alight at the bus stop outside Central Library
Take the internal shuttle bus A1 or B from the same bus stop
Alight at the third bus stop after the one at Central Library
Option 2:
Alternatively, take bus service nos. 10, 33, 95, 151, 189, 200
to the Kent Ridge Bus Interchange.
Walk along the covered linkway from the interchange and cross
the road to the bus stop outside LT13
Take internal shuttle bus service A1 or B and alight at the 2nd
bus stop located at Carpark 13
If you are taking the MRT...
From Buona Vista MRT Station, bus services 95 is
available at Bus Stop C1.
Note: I mostly stay in the NUS-HCI Lab, which is located at
COM2-01-04.
Software download: the source code for Multi-stroke
(Single-stroke) Marking Menu is finally available for anyone to
download and use. Special thanks to MAGHAREH Sajjad for cleaning up my
code, making is much easier to use, and writing the documentation for it.
Place to find useful word
templates (include templates for CV and thesis).
in Chinese. I am an assistant professor of the 
