Ang (Leon) Li

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

The University of Queensland

Brisbane, Queensland 4072

My name is Ang ‘Leon’ Li, or ‘李昂’ in Chinese characters. I am a final-year PhD candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia, and expect to complete my PhD in October 2026. My supervisors are A/Prof Maxime Cordeil, Dr Jarrod Knibbe, Prof Gianluca Demartini, and A/Prof Stephen Viller. I also work closely with Dr Charles Perin on immersive visualisation for running.

Prior to my PhD candidature at UQ, I completed a Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced (Honours) at Monash University, graduating as the Dux with First Class Honours. My honours thesis concerned the visualisation and analysis of gesture data in immersive environments, supervised by A/Prof Barrett Ens and A/Prof Maxime Cordeil in Monash University’s Embodied Visualisation Research Group.

My research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction, Extended Reality, and immersive analytics. I investigate how data visualisation and interaction in augmented and virtual environments can support in-situ decision-making during sports and other activities in motion.

I will commence as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Inria AVIZ group in November 2026, working with Dr Petra Isenberg and A/Prof Romain Vuillemot. My work will explore advanced situated visualisations for sports videos.

news

Aug 14, 2026	Our paper "Investigating 3D Selection Performance While Running in Extended Reality: an In-depth Study of the Effect of Speed" was accepted to IEEE TVCG!
Aug 13, 2026	I will commence as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Inria AVIZ group in November 2026, working with Dr Petra Isenberg and A/Prof Romain Vuillemot. My work will explore advanced situated visualisations for sports videos.
Nov 2, 2025	I am attending IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna to present “Running with Data.”
Jun 6, 2025	Our paper 'Running with Data: a Survey of the Current Research and a Design Exploration of Future Immersive Visualisations' was accepted to IEEE VIS 2025!
Jun 2, 2025	I am attending EuroVis 2025 in Luxembourg to present our paper, “Embedded and Situated Visualisation in Mixed Reality to Support Interval Running.”

selected publications

Investigating 3D Selection Performance While Running in Extended Reality: an In-depth Study of the Effect of Speed

Ang Li, Jarrod Knibbe, Koya Tatsuzawa, Gianluca Demartini, Stephen Viller, Geoffrey Wallis, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, and Maxime Cordeil

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026

doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2026.3722681

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We explore how running speed affects target-selection performance in extended reality through a Fitts’ tapping task using direct virtual touch. A controlled study with precise motion tracking examines the effects of speed, pointing phase, and foot strike on movement time, error rate, exertion, and task load.

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  author = {Li, Ang and Knibbe, Jarrod and Tatsuzawa, Koya and Demartini, Gianluca and Viller, Stephen and Wallis, Geoffrey and Stuerzlinger, Wolfgang and Cordeil, Maxime},
  title = {Investigating 3D Selection Performance While Running in Extended Reality: an In-depth Study of the Effect of Speed},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2026.3722681},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2026.3722681},
  note = {doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2026.3722681},
  keywords = {3D pointing, running, jogging, extended reality, Fitts' law},
  dimensions = {true},
}

Running with Data: a Survey of the Current Research and a Design Exploration of Future Immersive Visualisations

Ang Li, Charles Perin, Gianluca Demartini, Stephen Viller, Jarrod Knibbe, and Maxime Cordeil

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025

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This work investigates in-situ visualisations for running. We analyse 47 papers from 33 Human-Computer Interaction and Visualisation venues, identify six dimensions of a design space, and conduct workshops with 10 active runners to elicit concepts for future immersive running visualisations.

@article{li2025runningwithdata,
  author = {Li, Ang and Perin, Charles and Demartini, Gianluca and Viller, Stephen and Knibbe, Jarrod and Cordeil, Maxime},
  title = {Running with Data: a Survey of the Current Research and a Design Exploration of Future Immersive Visualisations},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3634631},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2025.3634631},
  keywords = {running, jogging, survey, taxonomy, personal visual analytics, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality},
  location = {Vienna, Austria},
  series = {IEEE VIS 2025},
  dimensions = {true},
}

Embedded and Situated Visualisation in Mixed Reality to Support Interval Running

Ang Li, Charles Perin, Jarrod Knibbe, Gianluca Demartini, Stephen Viller, and Maxime Cordeil

Computer Graphics Forum, 2025

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@article{li2025embeddedrunning,
  author = {Li, Ang and Perin, Charles and Knibbe, Jarrod and Demartini, Gianluca and Viller, Stephen and Cordeil, Maxime},
  title = {Embedded and Situated Visualisation in Mixed Reality to Support Interval Running},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  volume = {44},
  number = {3},
  doi = {10.1111/cgf.70133},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70133},
  keywords = {running, immersive analytics, mixed reality},
  location = {Luxembourg City, Luxembourg},
  series = {EuroVis 2025},
  dimensions = {true},
}

GestureExplorer: Immersive Visualisation and Exploration of Gesture Data

Ang Li, Jiazhou Liu, Maxime Cordeil, Jack Topliss, Thammathip Piumsomboon, and Barrett Ens

In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

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@inproceedings{li2023gestureexplorer,
  author = {Li, Ang and Liu, Jiazhou and Cordeil, Maxime and Topliss, Jack and Piumsomboon, Thammathip and Ens, Barrett},
  title = {GestureExplorer: Immersive Visualisation and Exploration of Gesture Data},
  year = {2023},
  isbn = {9781450394215},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580678},
  doi = {10.1145/3544548.3580678},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  articleno = {380},
  numpages = {16},
  keywords = {gesture elicitation study, immersive analytics, virtual reality},
  location = {Hamburg, Germany},
  series = {CHI 2023},
  dimensions = {true},
}