Hello ; )
I am Rima!
About Me
Hi, I am Yining "Rima" Cao!
I am currently a third year Ph.D. student in Cognitive Science at University of California, San Deigo, working with Professor Haijun Xia.
I build intelligent interactive system to support visual thinking, storytelling, and human creativity in general.
Priviously, I was a master student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, majoring in Data Analasis and Human-Computer Interaction. I worked with Professor Eytan Adar . I got my Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, China.
Besides.. I am an animator ➰, a dancer 💃, and a foodie 🍎
Research Publications
I build tools that support creativity and visual thinking with motion.
Elastica: Adaptive Live Augmented Presentations with Elastic Mappings Across Modalities
CHI'24
We introduce adaptive presentations that dynamically adjust predefined graphic animations to real-time speech and gestures. Elastica leverages script following and motion warping to establish elastic mappings that generate runtime graphic parameters coordinating speech, gesture, and predefined animation state.
DataParticles: Block-based and Language-oriented Authoring of Animated Unit Visualizations
CHI'23 Best Paper Award (Top 1%)
DataParticles is a natural language-oriented, block-based authoring tool for animated unit visualizations. Creators can author animated unit visualizations that are congruent with their story narratives by writing plain text in a rich text editor.
VideoSticker : A Tool for Active Visual Note-taking and Annotation
IUI'22
We propose VideoStickers , a tool for supporting graphical note-taking from videos. VideoStickers utilizes object detection and tracking and linking to narratives to allow the viewer to quickly `collect' a sticker and integrate the content into motion graphical notes.
More projects
Most of my works combine algorithms, designs and fun.
More in Life :)
Beyond academic researches, I am also interested in other fields like dancing, drawing, handicraft, etc. Here list some of my hobbies and shows another part of me.
Drawing & Design
Draw a popular science brochure
October, 2018
3D Tsinghua C4D Modeling
October, 2016
Motion Poster for Spring Festival
Janurary, 2018
Voluntary work
Water filter for arsenic removal
June, 2017
Voluntary teaching
October, 2017
Voluntary sampling
Feburary, 2018
Jazz & Aerobic
Jazz performance
May, 2017
Ballet
November, 2017
Aerobic competition
October, 2017
Photography
Wine
November, 2015
Snow town
Janurary, 2017
Water town
October, 2017