Daocheng Lin, wearing round glasses, in front of a bookshelf

Daocheng Lin 林道诚

Ph.D. Student Iowa State University

I am pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University, with a minor in Linguistics. My research focuses on data visualization, human-AI interaction, digital rhetoric, multimodality, and figurative language.

My work appears in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and the IEEE Professional Communication Conference. At Iowa State University, I worked on the AI video generation project for A Disaster Multiplayer Online Game (DMOG), a project funded by the NSF, using generative AI models to create cutscene videos for the game.

Link to my CV

daocheng(at)iastate.edu

News & Travels

  • Have 2 presentations at ACM SIGDOC 2026 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

  • Have a virtual presentation at IEEE ProComm 2026.

  • Have a virtual presentation at ATTW 2026.

  • Have a presentation at CCCC 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio.

All presentations

Publications

  1. Kisaburō Ōhara, A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, 1904

    Journal Unveiling the Visual Rhetoric of Persuasive Cartography: A Case Study of the Design of Octopus Maps

    Daocheng Lin, Yifan Wang, Yutong Yang, Xingyu Lan

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 32(1), 156–166, 2026. Presented at IEEE VIS 2025, Vienna.

    Paper Project website

  2. Graphical abstract by Dong et al., Nature Catalysis, 2022, analyzed in the paper

    Proceedings Full Paper Emotional Appeals of Emerging Scientific Visualization Genres in Academic Journals of the Digital Age

    Daocheng Lin

    2026 IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), 110–118.

    Paper

Conference Presentations

  1. AI Video Generation for Emergency Management Training Games: A Design Process Case Study. 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC), St. Paul, Minnesota · October 23–24. With Dr. Abram Anders and Trishala Jain.

  2. Visual Rhetoric of Automated Data Visualization: A Case Study of AI-Assisted Time-Tracking Application. 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC), St. Paul, Minnesota · October 23–24. With Dr. Eric York, Haley Greer, and Isaac Ewuoso.

  3. Emotional Appeals of Emerging Scientific Visualization Genres in Academic Journals of the Digital Age. IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference (ProComm) · July 12–14. Virtual panel.

  4. Visualizing Cosmotechnics: Exploring a Modernized Worldview Through Chinese Cultivation Games in the Algorithmic Era. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) 2026 · April 17–18. Virtual panel.

  5. Teaching Intercultural Communication through Data Visualization: Towards an Aesthetic Pedagogy Approach. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2026 Convention, Cleveland, Ohio · March 4–7. Individual presentation.

  6. Unveiling the Visual Rhetoric of Persuasive Cartography: A Case Study of the Design of Octopus Maps. IEEE VIS 2025, Vienna, Austria · November 2–7. With Yifan Wang, Yutong Yang, and Xingyu Lan.

  7. Emotional Appeals in Election System Data Visualizations on Digital Platforms: A Case Study of 2024 Global Election Videos on YouTube. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) 2025, Missouri · June 14–15. Individual presentation.

Selected Projects

Tufte for Obsidian

An Obsidian theme adapted from Tufte CSS for Zettelkasten note-taking, with sidenotes, margin notes, and restrained tables in the style of Edward Tufte’s handouts.

Website GitHub

MovieMap

Where do the stories happen? A scrollytelling web map of film locations, from San Francisco’s streets and Hengdian’s studio city to a globe of the IMDb Top 250.

Website

Teaching

Instructor of record, Department of English, Iowa State University, 2024–present.

  1. ENGL 2500

    Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition

    Multimodal composition course that develops students’ written, oral, visual, and electronic communication.

  2. ENGL 1500

    Critical Thinking and Communication

    First-year course in critical reading and thinking about civic and cultural topics, with an introduction to oral, visual, and electronic communication.