Zezhong Wang (王 泽中)
My research primarily focuses on innovative methods for presenting and interacting with data, blending design and storytelling to enhance user engagement and understanding.
I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow at ixLab, Simon Fraser University with Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale. Before that, I received my PhD in 2022 from the University of Edinburgh with an interdisciplinary team Visual+Interactive Data Lab (VisHub), supervised by Dr. Benjamin Bach and Dr. Dave Murray-Rust. My PhD investigates Data Comics, PhD thesis entitled Creating Data Comics for Data-Driven Storytelling.
Data Comics - 数据漫画
Telling compelling data stories with comics Continue reading Data Comics - 数据漫画
Interactive Data Comics
Bring interactions to static data comics (VIS 2021) Continue reading Interactive Data Comics
Cheat Sheets for Data Visualization Techniques
A set of concise graphical explanations to support understanding data visualization techniques (CHI 2020) Continue reading Cheat Sheets for Data Visualization Techniques
Data Comics for Reporting Controlled User Studies in Human-Computer Interaction
Making data comics for illustrating reports of controlled studies (VIS 2020) Continue reading Data Comics for Reporting Controlled User Studies in Human-Computer Interaction
News
Paper Exploring Using Personalised Comics for Healthcare Communication for Patients Living With Hemodialysis was accepted by ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2024).
Paper Design Patterns for Data-Driven News Articles received the Best Paper Honourable Mention at CHI 2024.
Paper From Science to Story: Communicating Permafrost Concepts with Data Comics was accepted by the International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2024).
IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) Visualization Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2023.
I started a project Data Comics for Climate Change in the summer of 2023, with Prof Sheelagh Carpendale, Prof Michelle Levy, and Prof Stephan Gruber, supported by the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).
