Welcome
Hey, I’m Kun-Ting Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) working with Ali Babar and R&D team at the University of Adelaide. I was a postdoctoral researcher at Visualisation Research Centre of the University of Stuttgart (VISUS) within Daniel Weiskopf’s group. I received a PhD from Data Visualisation & Immersive Analytics Lab (DVIA), Department of Human-Centred-Computing within Monash University, working with Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and Benjamin Bach. My research interest lies in the intersection of Information visualisation (InfoVis) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), researching and developing human-centred interactive visualisations that help people explore complex data.
My PhD thesis concerns 2D visualizations using 3D metaphor for interactive wrapping of data visualisations on cylinder, torus, or sphere geometries. I explored various algorithms for optimising arrangements of network structures that aide user comprehension about the relationship within the data. Through user experiments I compared usability and effectiveness of this method over standard visualisations. I also performed user experiments with eye trackers, which I analysed and visualized user eye tracking data to identify user strategies when using the visualisations. I believe interactive visualisations have a potential to play a greater role in many other applications such as software, biological or social network applications if we can present complex information to people in an understandable and engaging way. In addition, I’m also interested in future foods and their power of engaging people in the data exploration beyond visualization through multisensory interaction.
Before joining Monash University, I was working as a software engineer in MSI Global (2017-2019) and Land Transport Authority (2015-2017), an agile Scrum player and device owner of Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) software, developing and maintaining AFC software for bus and MRT systems in Singapore, Bangkok, and Manila. The enthusiasm and significant software development skills allowed me to work with teams to successfully deploy the software applications system-wide in more than 50 Skytrain stations and depots in Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS).
News
2022
- Full year: Served as a Student Volunteer Organisation Co-chair for IEEE VIS 2022
- Sep - Presented my research: It’s a Wrap: Visualisations that Wrap Around Cylindrical, Toroidal, or Spherical Topologies at Visualisation Community within the Defence Science and Technology Group
- Awarded a PhD degree of Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
- Jul - Co-organised SommerFest 2022 for the Institute for Visualisation and Interactive Systems (VIS) at University of Stuttgart
- Jun - Started a PostDoc position at Visualisation Research Centre (VISUS), University of Stuttgart
- 29 Apr-5 May - Attended ACM CHI 2022, and
2021
- Dec - Granted a Global Talent Program for a permanent residency in Australia
- Nov - Received a Special Recognition for one Outstanding Review at ACM CHI 2022
- 24-29 Oct - Attended IEEE VIS 2021, and
- Attended local satellite site at MelVis
- Presented a paper Rotate or Wrap? Interactive Visualisations of Cyclical Data on Cylindrical or Toroidal Topologies
- Invited to serve as an IEEE VIS Student Volunteers Organising Co-chair for 2022-2023
- 14-18 June - Attended EuroVis 2021 and supported the conference as a student volunteer captain
- June - Attended Monash Faculty of Information - Three Minute Thesis (3MT 2021)
- Presented my three-minute-thesis It’s a Wrap: Using Doughnut Wrapping to Read Data Points
- 8-13 May - Attended ACM CHI 2021, and
- Presented a paper It’s a Wrap: Toroidal Wrapping of Network Visualisations Supports Cluster Understanding Tasks
- Supported the conference as a student volunteer captain
Recent Research Gallery
Reading Strategies for Graph Visualizations that Wrap Around in Torus Topology
Kun-Ting Chen, Quynh Quang Ngo, Kuno Kurzhals, Kim Marriott, Michael Sedlmair, Daniel Weiskopf, ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications 2023 (ETRA 2023)
Gazealytics: A Unified and Flexible Visual Toolkit for Exploratory and Comparative Gaze Analysis
Kun-Ting Chen, Arnaud Prouzeau, Joshua Langmead, Ryan T Whitelock-Jones, Lee Lawrence, Tim Dwyer, Christophe Hurter, Daniel Weiskopf, Sarah Goodwin, ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications 2023 (ETRA 2023)
Play Sample datasets and video tutorials (GitHub) Pre-print
It’s a Wrap: Visualisations that Wrap Around Cylindrical, Toroidal, or Spherical Topologies
Kun-Ting Chen, Doctoral dissertation, Monash University, 2022
GAN’SDA Wrap: Geographic And Network Structured Data on surfaces that Wrap around
Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Yalong Yang, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott, Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022)
Maps Play Networks Play Maps Study Networks Study Pre-print
Rotate or Wrap? Interactive Visualisations of Cyclical Data on Cylindrical or Toroidal Topologies
Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2021)
It’s a Wrap: Toroidal Wrapping of Network Visualisations Supports Cluster Understanding Tasks
Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Benjamin Bach, Kim Marriott, Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)
Data as Delights: Eating Data
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Tim Dwyer, Sarah Goodwin, Kim Marriott, Jialin Deng, Han D. Phan, Jionghao Lin, Kun-Ting Chen, Yan Wang, Rohit Ashok Khot, Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)
DoughNets: Visualising Networks Using Torus Wrapping
Kun-Ting Chen, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Benjamin Bach, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020)
Network Aware Load-balancing via Parallel VM Migration for Data Centers
Kun-Ting Chen, Chien Chen, Po-Hsiang Wang, International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2014)