Xinyu Shi

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Notational Animating: An Interactive Approach to Creating and Editing Animation Keyframes

We introduce the concept of notational animating, an interaction paradigm for animation authoring where users sketch high-level notations over static drawings to indicate intended motions, which are then interpreted by automatic methods (e.g., GenAI models) to generate animation keyframes. Sketched notations have long…

CHI '251st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Brickify: Enabling Expressive Design Intent Specification through Direct Manipulation on Design Tokens

Expressing design intent using natural language prompts requires designers to verbalize the ambiguous visual details concisely, which can be challenging or even impossible. To address this, we introduce Brickify, a visual-centric interaction paradigm — expressing design intent through direct manipulation on design tok…

CHI '241st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Exploring Interactive Color Palettes for Abstraction-Driven Exploratory Image Colorization

Color design is essential in areas such as product, graphic, and fashion design. However, current tools like Photoshop, with their concrete-driven color manipulation approach, often stumble during early ideation, favoring polished end results over initial exploration. We introduced Mondrian as a test-bed for abstracti…

CHI '241st AuthorBest PaperMusic Composition & Sound Design Tools +1

Piet: Facilitating Color Authoring for Motion Graphics Video

Motion graphic (MG) videos are effective and compelling for presenting complex concepts through animated visuals; and colors are important to convey desired emotions, maintain visual continuity, and signal narrative transitions. However, current video color authoring workflows are fragmented, lacking contextual previe…

CHI '231st Author360° Video & Panoramic Content +2

De-Stijl: Facilitating Graphics Design with Interactive 2D Color Palette Recommendation

Selecting a proper color palette is critical in crafting a high-quality graphic design to gain visibility and communicate ideas effectively. To facilitate this process, we propose De-Stijl, an intelligent and interactive color authoring tool to assist novice designers in crafting harmonic color palettes, achieving qui…

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