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About Us

Interactive Data Exploration System (IDEAS) Lab (formerly known as ”VisLab”) was founded 2016 at Shandong University, Qingdao, China by Prof. Yunhai Wang. Its mission is to enhance people's ability to understand and communicate data through the design of automated visualization and visual analytics systems.

We study the perceptual and mathematical foundations of visualization in order to improve the efficiency of interactive data analysis, while developing interactive systems for data visualization and analysis.

Recent Publications

CAST: Authoring Data-Driven Chart Animations

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Curve Complexity Heuristic KD-trees for Neighborhood-based Exploration of 3D Curves

Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2021)，2021

Data-Driven Mark Orientation for Trend Estimation in Scatterplots

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Canis: A High-level Language for Data-Driven Chart Animations

Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of EuroVis 2020), 2020

Implicit Multidimensional Projection of Local Subspaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2020), 2020

Recent Events

seminarPrinciples and Tools for Evaluating and Improving NLP Models (Presented by Sherry Tongshuang Wu from University of Washington)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University and University of Washington)

seminarHuman Dynamics for Smart and Connected Communities (Presented by Prof. Xinyue Ye from Texas A&M University)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University and Texas A&M University)

seminarBio-Physically Inspired Immersive Graphics (Presented by Prof. Qi Sun from New York University)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University and New York University)

seminar面向三元空间的混合现实与可视分析挑战与展望 (Presented by Prof. Wei Chen from Zhejiang University)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University and Zhejiang University)

seminar用于三维可视化的交互技术与界面 (Presented by Prof. Lingyun Yu from Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University and Xi’an Jiaotong-liverpool University)