Hello, thanks for dropping by. This is Tony Huang. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SIT of USYD, working with Dr. Seok-Hee Hong and Prof. Peter Eades.

IVRG       SIT      USYD


Key words:

Visual analytics, information visualization, perception and cognition, working memory, cognitive load, human-computer interaction, eye-tracking, experimental design, statistical analysis, user interface, graph visualization, graph drawing, social network, sociogram, node-link diagram, edge crossing, aesthetics.


Publication:

PhD Thesis

Huang, W. (2007) Beyond Time and Error: A Cognitive Approach to the Evaluation of Graph Visualizations. University of Sydney, Australia. PDF (2.87MB)

Journal

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (2007) Effects of Sociogram Drawing Conventions and Edge Crossings in Social Network Visualization. Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA), 11 (2): 397-429. PDF

Conference

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (accepted) A Cognitive Approach to the Evaluation of Graph Drawings. In Proc. the CHI’08 Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Information Visualization (BELIV’08).

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (accepted) Effects of Crossing Angles. In Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2008).

Huang, W. (2007) Using Eye Tracking to Investigate Graph Layout Effects. In Proc. Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualization (APVIS2007), IEEE, 97-100. PDF

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (2006) Predicting Graph Reading Performance: A Cognitive Approach. In Proc. Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization (APVIS2006), CRPIT, 60, ACS, 207-216. PDF

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (2006) How People Read Sociograms: A Questionnaire Study. In Proc. Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization (APVIS2006), CRPIT, 60, ACS, 199-206. PDF

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (2005) Layout Effects on Sociogram Perception. In Proc. 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD’05), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3843, Springer, 262-273. PDF

Huang, W., Murray, C., Shen, X., Song, L., Wu, Y. X. and Zheng, L. (2005) Visualization and Analysis of Network Motifs. In Proc. 9th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV’05), IEEE, 697-702. PDF

Huang, W. and Eades, P. (2005) How People Read Graphs: An Eye Tracking Study. In Proc. Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization (APVIS2005), CRPIT, 45, ACS, 51-58. PDF

Technical report

Huang, W. (2006) An Eye Tracking Study into the Effects of Graph Layout. Technical Report, University of Sydney.

Huang, W., Hong, S.-H. and Eades, P. (2005) Layout Effects: Comparison of Sociogram Drawing Conventions. Technical Report Number 575, University of Sydney. PDF


Service:

Program Committee member: Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium 2006 (ETRA’06)

Organizing Committee member: 15th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD’07)

Organizing Committee member: 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2008)


Supervision: 

Zhu, Y.:  Effects of human and visual factors on decision making in information visualization - Masters of IT research project, 2005.

Goodwin, M.:  A visualization system for dynamic social networks - Advanced third year course project, 2005.


My favourite links:

Colin Ware David Krackhardt
Helen Purchase Chris North
Jean-Daniel Fekete John Stasko
Chaomei Chen Jiajie Zhang
Ulrik Brandes Peter Cheng
Vladimir Batagelj Ping Zhang

Personal:

Some of my Chinese writings

A tip for becoming an IEEE author     Too much maths   -- The original authors for the two pictures are unknown