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August 25, 2024
Our Work “SemNFT: A Semantically Enhanced Decentralized Middleware for Digital Asset Immortality” Is Accepted By ACM MM’24
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a pivotal digital asset, offering authenticated ownership of unique digital content. Despite it has gained remarkable traction, yet face pressing storage and verification challenges stemming from blockchain’s permanent data costs. Existing off-chain or centralized storage solutions, while being alternatives, also introduce notable security vulnerabilities. We present SemNFT, an innovative decentralized framework integrated with blockchain oracle middleware services, addressing these persistent NFT dilemmas.
February 23, 2024
Our work “ARTEMIS: Detecting Airdrop Hunters in NFT Markets with a Graph Learning System” is accepted by ACM WWW’24
Airdrops have become a standard tactic in Web3 business operations, with Decentralized Applications (DApps) distributing tokens to encourage user engagement based on smart contract rules. This practice has led to the emergence of “airdrop hunters,” individuals who collect wallet addresses to claim these generous token giveaways by interacting with the contracts. While airdrops are beneficial for attracting early DApp users, the self-trading activities of hunters to appear as active participants threaten the ecosystem’s integrity and challenge the decentralization goals of DApps. DApp teams face the challenge of detecting airdrop hunters without disadvantaging genuine users.
October 27, 2023
Our Work “Web3 Metaverse: State-of-the-Art and Vision” Is Accepted By ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)
The metaverse, as a rapidly evolving socio-technical phenomenon, exhibits significant potential across diverse domains by leveraging Web3 (a.k.a. Web 3.0) technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Web3 metaverse from a human-centered perspective. We systematically review the metaverse’s industrial (data from Dow Jones Factiva database) and academic (data from Google Scholar website) developments over the past 30 years, highlighting the balanced contributions from its core components: Web3, immersive convergence, and crowd intelligence communities.
September 17, 2023
Our Work “MetaCast: A Self-Driven Metaverse Announcer Architecture Based on Quality of Experience Evaluation Model” Is Accepted By ACM MM’ 23
We propose a three-stage architecture for metaverse announcers, which is designed to identify events, position cameras, and blend between shots. Based on the architecture, we introduce a Metaverse Announcer User Experience (MAUE) model to identify the factors affecting the users’ Quality of Experience (QoE) from a human-centered perspective. In addition, we implement MetaCast, a practical self-driven metaverse announcer in a university campus metaverse prototype, to conduct user studies for MAUE model. The experimental results have effectively achieved satisfactory announcer settings that align with the preferences of most users, encompassing parameters such as video transition rate, repetition rate, importance threshold value, and image composition.
January 15, 2023
Our work “Altruistic and Profit-oriented: Making Sense of Roles in Web3 Community from Airdrop Perspective” is accepted by ACM CHI’23
Many decentralized applications (DApps) issue airdrops to early supporters for their contributions. However, most eligible users are motivated by financial profit or preferential access to tokens with governance rights to obtain quick cash. In this paper, we take ParaSwap as a representative example, trying to evaluate the Web 3.0 community and the effectiveness of allocation principles through the analysis of eligible users’ behavior and token transaction network.
August 20, 2021
Our Metaverse Paper presented in ACM MM’21 has reached 1000 citations
According to Google Scholar [link], our paper “Metaverse for Social Good: A University Campus Prototype,” presented in the Brave New Ideas (BNI) track of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM ’21), has reached 1,000 citations. Additionally, statistics from the ACM Digital Library indicate that this paper has been downloaded over 10,000 times,…