⏰Time:
Friday, November 21, 2025

📍Location:
SMU Room No. on the way

🚀Venue:
Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore

📝Note:
Registration required for ICHEC 2025

❗Workshop Registration Link:
https://forms.gle/kWYH7n8L9wbGdRNi8

Welcome to Stories that Teach @ ICHEC
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Our Workshop

This workshop explores innovative human-AI collaboration methodologies in HCI visual storytelling education through our established "gap-and-fill" approach. Drawing from Eastern aesthetic philosophies of intentional emptiness, including Chinese negative space traditions, Japanese "ma" concepts, and contemporary design minimalism, we demonstrate how educators can teach students to maintain creative agency while strategically leveraging AI assistance. During this workshop, participants will experience a structured three-phase methodology: creating a human-led narrative foundation, identifying strategic gaps, and collaborating on AI enhancements. The workshop combines theoretical foundations with intensive hands-on practice, enabling participants to create compelling HCI visual narratives that demonstrate effective human-AI partnership. Through sequential art techniques, storyboarding exercises, and guided AI integration, attendees learn to communicate complex interactive concepts, accessibility solutions, and user experience flows while preserving narrative coherence and creative vision. Building on our successful workshops at ACM C&C 2025, this session specifically addresses the needs of the Chinese HCI community for culturally informed and pedagogically sound approaches to AI integration in creative education.

ICHEC Workshop Link

https://ichec.icachi.org/25/workshops/#w1

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Meet Previous Organizers

ICHEC Workshop Organizers

Kexin Nie is a UI/UX and interactive designer based in Sydney and Beijing, with a Master’s in Strategic Design and Design Innovation from The University of Sydney. Her research focuses on human-centred design, Mixed Reality, AI-generated content (AIGC), and HCI. Currently, she explores the intersection of emerging technologies and user experience, investigating how AI-driven and immersive interfaces can enhance interaction design. Her research has been published in leading academic venues, including SIGGRAPH Asia, ISMAR, and EMNLP.

Tang Xin is a new media artist based in Guangzhou, China, with over 6 years of experience in AI-enhanced Cultural Heritage and Human-Computer Interaction. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and is known for her contributions to the preservation and promotion of Batik through digital technology. Her works are usually presented in the form of installations and digital media art. Her representative work, AI-Batik, has earned gold awards in the China Brand Design Award and the FA International Frontier Innovation Design Competition, and has been exhibited in Shanghai, Sapporo, and Chonburi. In addition to serving as a board member of ICACHI, she is also involved with the Conference on the Asia Society of Basic Design and Art.

Ze Gao is a multidisciplinary artist and scientist based in Hong Kong and New York. He serves as Chief Scientist at Cyanpuppets (Guangzhou) and holds the position of Research Fellow with the UNESCO Chair in World Traditional Handcrafts: Inheritance and Innovation. Previously, he served as faculty at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and held researcher positions at the Tongji University-MIT City Science Lab, PolyU-NVIDIA Joint Research Centre, and the Extended Reality & Immersive Media Lab of HKUST. Gao holds a degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts New York. His work bridges art and technology, focusing on AI-Generated Content, Human-Computer Interaction, Cultural Heritage, and Mixed Reality. His academic contributions have been published in ACM and IEEE conferences including CHI, SIGGRAPH Asia, Ubicomp, and IEEE VR, etc. His artworks have been showcased globally at tech and art venues such as SIGGRAPH, ISEA, NeurIPS, CVPR, Multimedia, and DIS, and permanent collected at institutions including the Rochester Art Center (USA) and Franco-American Institute (France). His works are recipient of internationally recognized awards including the Ars Electronica Award, Red Dot Design Award, Lumen Prize, NTU Global Digital Art Prize, and OPPO Renovators Award. He has also served as reviewer, program committee and art jury for leading conferences and journals including ACM CHI, UIST, IEEE VR, ISMAR, PRICAI, ISEA, EVA London, IJHCI, and Lateral.

Tiffany Chen holds a MA degree in Curating and Collections from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. She previously worked at a world-leading cryptocurrency exchange, and has long focused on the practical integration of the Web3 ecosystem with HCI visual storytelling. During her postgraduate studies, Tiffany engaged deeply in cross-media digital art practice, mastering the ability to transform abstract concepts into perceivable experiences through narrative frameworks and visual guidance. During her tenure at the cryptocurrency exchange, her work centered on optimizing user interaction for Web3 products—for instance, simplifying users’ understanding of complex concepts such as blockchain principles and NFT asset logic via concise visual design, and enhancing users’ efficiency in utilizing crypto tools through sequential visual processes. Her core exploration revolves around the question of “how to make complex Web3 information accessible to users through more user-friendly HCI design.” For her participation in the “Stories that Teach @ ICHEC” workshop, Tiffany aims to combine her practical experience in Web3 to learn about the application of the “gap-and-fill” method in HCI education. Meanwhile, she also seeks to explore how Eastern aesthetics and AI collaboration can offer new pathways for visual storytelling and user education in the crypto field.

Mengyao Guo is an Assistant Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, specializing in visual communication, digital media arts, and HCI. As an award-winning artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and researcher based in Shenzhen, Guo has received numerous accolades for her creative work, including the Muse Creative Award, A'Design Award, iJungle Illustration Award, 3x3 Illustration Award, and DNA Paris Design Award. Her pieces are held in notable corporate collections including K11 Hong Kong and OCAT Shenzhen. Her artistic work has been exhibited internationally, with solo and group exhibitions across the world, including CITYA, Art Vancouver, Art Fair Tokyo, and Art on Paper. Guo actively contributes to academic and creative communities, regularly presenting at conferences and symposiums. Her research has been published in prestigious venues such as ACM CHI, IEEE VR, ACM IUI, Cumulus, Chinese CHI, ACM TEI, ISEA, EVA London, ACM C&C, and ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia. Her current work combines expertise in visual storytelling with cutting-edge technology to explore new forms of artistic expression and HCI.

ORGANIZERS

Kexin Nie,
University of Sydney,
Australia

Xin Tang,
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts,
China

Ze Gao,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong, China

Tiffany Chen,
University of the Arts London,
UK

Mengyao Guo,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen,
China

Jinda Han is an HCI and AI researcher specializing in Interactive Social Computing, Fashion AI, and Human-Computer Interaction. He is currently studying in the Management Science and Engineering program at Stanford University. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Jinda served as the Web Co-Chair of ACM GROUP in 2020 and as the Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH at the UIUC chapter from May 2015 to May 2016. His research interests span interdisciplinary areas, leveraging large-scale data mining, large language models, machine learning, NLP, and computer vision to explore human-computer interaction and address influence and trend-related challenges in social media within the field of interactive social computing. He has published in, as well as served as an external reviewer for, conferences such as ACM CSCW, ACM GROUP, ACM KDD, ACM IUI, ACM C\&C, IEEE INFOCOM, etc.

is an interdisciplinary practitioner and researcher at the intersection of visual arts, artificial intelligence, and HCI. Currently pursuing a PhD at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, her research focuses on innovative approaches to information design within immersive environments. She explores how databases can be presented in immersive spaces, leveraging platforms like Apple Vision Pro to develop novel interaction experiences, emphasizing the integration of virtual reality and AI-generated content in visual communication.

holds a Master's degree in research from Goldsmith College, University of London, and his research direction is children's illustration, especially in the expression of Eastern and Western storytelling in picture books. He has participated in several competitions of the Chinese Artists Association won the first prize, and participated in the forum of 100 Young People in Children's Book Creation. He has also worked on the story design for the theatrical animated film Fly Me to the Moon as well as on short commercials for BMW and Intel, exploring the difference between commercial and artistic storytelling.

Xin Wang is an illustrator in Illustration and Visual Media at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Her research explores and interrogates a range of established, current and emerging approaches and techniques to develop practices that are innovative and reflect our times. Her works explore the diversity of approaches in the making, which includes both physical and digital outcomes, and consider how the Internet has changed how people communicate in today's age and makes people rethink the relationship between the digital world and the physical world.

PREVIOUS ORGANIZERS

Jinda Han,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
USA

Jie Fu,
University of the Arts London,
United Kingdom

Zhishun Chi,
Goldsmith College,
UK

Xin Wang,
University of the Arts London,
UK

Guan Wang,
University of the Arts London,
UK

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