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Hi there! We are DataVisards, a young research lab at HKUST, directed by Dr. Arpit Narechania. We design and evaluate tools that help people collaborate with one another and with AI on data-driven analysis and decision-making, across domains. Here's our research footprint:

Human-Agent Interaction & Collaboration

Tools and studies about how humans and AI agents interact and collaborate with each other.

FYI Vipera WebSeek Alignment–Process–Outcome Agentic Enterprise

Guidance & Analytic Provenance

Designing, developing, and democratizing guidance based on users' analytic behavior.

SuperProvenanceWidgets ProvenanceLens Guidance Source Matters ProvenanceWidgets BiasBuzz Lumos Left, Right, & Gender

Natural & Explainable Interfaces

Tools for enhancing user expressivity and explainability during analysis.

Elicitation Study NL4DV-Stylist NL4DV-LLM NL4DV v2 DIY NL4DV

Cartography & GIS

Geospatial visualization tools and studies about how people create and use maps.

Cartographers in Cubicles Exploropleth Resiliency

Sports Analytics & Visualizations

Visual analytics tools for enhancing athletic performance and coaching workflows.

PoseForge

Database Systems

Tools for designing, navigating, and monitoring large data systems.

DataCockpit DataPilot SQLCheck

Citations & Literature Review

Tools and studies about how people and AIs discover, review, and cite scholarly work.

GenAI References vitaLITy 2 vitaLITy vitaLITy Dataset

Automotive Engineering

Visual analytics tools for improving automotive systems engineering processes.

SafetyLens DataHawk

Recent publications

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PoseForge: Editable Pose Analytics for AI-Assisted Sports Coaching IEEE TVCG · 2027 Fact-Check Your Information (FYI): A Design Probe to Understand How People Actually Fact-Check Data-Driven Articles IEEE TVCG · 2027 Data Identification and Extraction from Unstructured Documents USPTO · 2026 WebSeek: Facilitating Proactive and Reactive Guidance for Decision Making on the Web ACM CHI · 2026 Vipera: Blending Visual and LLM-Driven Guidance for Systematic Auditing of Text-to-Image Generative AI ACM CHI · 2026

Recent news

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Nov 2026

Arpit serving as Archive Chair for IEEE VIS 2026. ✈

Two papers at IEEE VIS 2026. Congrats Theo and Shuvam! 📄 ✈ 🎙

FYI PoseForge

Sep 2026

Welcome Xiaoyu, Zhiteng, Jianheng, Theo, and Jieliang to the lab. 🎉

Jul 2026

Xiaoyu named a Tang Scholar through the Xiaoou Tang Scholarship 2026–27. Congrats Xiaoyu! 🏆

Arpit gave an invited talk at ChinaVis 2026. ✈ 🎙

Arpit gave an invited guest lecture at the ZJU International Summer School. 🎙