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Human-AI Collaborative Creation of Visual Storytelling
Speaker (s):
Wang Yun
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research Asia
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22 September 2023, Friday
1:00pm – 2:00pm
School of Economics/School of Computing
& Information Systems 2 (SOE/SCIS 2)
Level 3, Seminar Room 3-10
Singapore Management University
Singapore 178903
Please register by 21 September 2023.
We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar.
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About the Talk
Visual storytelling is a powerful form of communication that uses visual elements, such as charts, infographics, images, animations, and videos, to create narratives. However, creating engaging visual stories is a challenging task, especially for non-experts, as it requires a deep understanding of the content and logic, the visual design principles, and the narrative structures. Moreover, it often takes a lot of time and effort to produce high-quality visual stories. In this talk, the speaker will present her work on how human-AI collaboration can enhance the process and outcome of visual storytelling. She will show how to generate expressive and informative visualizations, compose visualizations and infographics into stories, and transform visualizations into more engaging animations. She will also examine how humans and AIs can collaborate in the creative process of visual storytelling, and how such collaboration can augment both human creativity and AI capabilities. Finally, she will discuss the future research opportunities and challenges in this domain.
About the Speaker
Dr. Yun Wang is a senior researcher in the Data, Knowledge, Intelligence (DKI) Area at Microsoft Research Asia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction, information visualization, artificial intelligence, and data science. Her work aims to facilitate human-data interaction, human-AI collaboration, and visual storytelling with novel techniques, tools, and systems. Yun's recent research focus on enhancing human communication with visualizations infused with AI techniques. She has developed techniques and systems for creating visual stories in diverse forms, such as infographics, interactive web pages, motion graphics, and animated videos. She has also explored how to simplify and improve the data interaction workflows between humans and AI for analysis, ideation, authoring, and storytelling. She envisions a future where humans and AI can co-create engaging and informative visual stories. She has published over 40 papers in high-impact venues such as VIS, CHI, UIST, TVCG, and CG&A and serves as reviewers, program committees for a variety of venues. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from HKUST, and a joint B.Eng. in software engineering and B.Sc. in computer science from Fudan and UCD. More information can be found on her personal page [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/wangyun/].
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