DancingBoard: Streamlining the Creation of Motion Comics to Enhance Narratives

Longfei Chen*, Shengxin Li*, Ziang Li, Quan Li (* equal contribution)

Accepted by The 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 25)

Motion Comic, a form of animation that appropriates an existing comic book into a screen-based animated narrative, proposes challenges for amateur creators as they lack proficiency with professional creation tools.
We conducted (1) a formative study to identify challenges faced by amateurs and (2) a review of the Motion Comics design space. Based on these results, we developed DancingBoard, an integrated authoring tool streamlines motion comic creation for amateur creators. We evaluated DancingBoard’s usability and the outcome’s efficiency in conveying the story through two user studies and semi-structured interviews.

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Trinity: Synchronizing Verbal, Nonverbal, and Visual Channels to Support Academic Oral Presentation Delivery

Yuchen Wu, Shengxin Li, Shizhen Zhang, Xingbo Wang, Quan Li

Accepted by International Symposium of Chinese CHI 2024; Best Paper Award.

Academic Oral Presentation allows students to express ideas and present research findings. However, students often face the challenge of integrating verbal, nonverbal and visual elements into the presentation.
Based on a need-finding survey, a design study and an expert interview, we proposed Trinity, a hybrid delivery support system that provides guidance for multichannel delivery on-the-fly.
We conducted a controlled between-subject user study to investigate the usability, effectiveness, interaction, influence, trust and collaboration of Trinity.

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