The operation and maintenance (O&M) of the communication network supporting a power system are essential for ensuring grid reliability. This paper presents VisualNetO&M, a collaborative visualization system integrated with a digital process twin of the communication network to enhance O&M efficiency. It provides visualizations for key tasks and facilitates collaboration among operators, technicians, and managers. We validated its effectiveness in Xi'an City, China, where it reduced the O&M workflow completion time from 16 hours to just 1 hour. This improvement resulted in a significant economic benefit of nearly 2/3 million USD over 10 months, highlighting the value of VisualNetO&M.
This paper presents an AI-supported system designed to engage visitors with traditional heritage lanterns. Inspired by Song Dynasty-style lanterns, the system guides users through four steps: drawing a lantern shape on a tablet, submitting it to AI generation, carrying the generated digital lantern with a handheld rod, and lighting it up to explore an interactive scroll. When a digital lantern is carried to the scroll, it triggers real-time animations. Observations from our exhibition highlight the system's strong potential for heritage education and cultural engagement in public spaces.
"Prosomoiosi" (Simulation) is a real-time audiovisual study of how successive modeling frameworks overwrite cultural memory. Grounded in media archaeology, the work introduces 'medium alignment', arguing that concepts must be voiced through media that expose their operative logic. A live diffusion pipeline with multi-prompt editing stages the algorithmic politics of selective remembrance, inviting audiences to renegotiate authorship and selfhood at the human-machine frontier through contemplative engagement with the transparent algorithmic process."
Curators face challenges in selecting, ideating, coordinating, and publicizing exhibited works. Recent advances in GenAI has shaped the role of curators in the exhibition design and production process, leading to new adaptations in the exploration, design, planning, and dissemination phases. To explore the impact of GenAI on curatorial practice, we interviewed 13 curators and followed an additional 3 curators in real-world online exhibition production process. We found that GenAI can support theme selection, space design, topic research, artwork selection, and element production. However, GenAI may also stifling critical thinking, perpetuate inaccuracies, leading to fragmented workflows, misperceptions of feasbility, and concerns about copyright. The effectiveness of GenAI tools often depends on the curators understanding of their roles and limitations. This work offer practical design recommendations for curators and suggest future research to design for adopting the use of GenAI in technology-mediated curatorial workflows.
This study examines the effects of two visual guidance techniques, Visual Enhancement and Visual Suppression, on user perception of contextual information in video content. Visual Enhancement introduces explicit visual cues to highlight target content, whereas Visual Suppression attenuates non-target elements, for example, by reducing their brightness. Both approaches aim to isolate specific objects from the background, directing attention to critical information within complex, dynamic scenes. Despite their growing usage, the relative effectiveness of these approaches in guiding attention and their impact on peripheral context awareness remain underexplored. To address this gap, we conducted a controlled user study with 27 participants. The results indicate that Visual Enhancement, through the addition of salient cues, more effectively directs user attention to target information than Visual Suppression. Our findings advance understanding of visual attention in dynamic environments and offer implications for designing visual guidance strategies.
