Workshop @ UbiComp 2026

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Location: Central Saint Martins (CSM), University of the Arts London
Venue: ACM C&C 26
Time: 13 July 2026 (Local Time)
Call for Paper Deadline: 10 May, 2026 (AoE)
Notification: 20 May, 2026 (AoE)

This workshop advances visual storytelling as a rigorous HCI methodology through iterative human-AI collaboration. As the fourth edition in an evolving series, this half-day workshop examines the creative process itself, requiring participants to document their journey through multiple cycles of negotiation between human creativity and AI capabilities using the gap-and-fill methodology. Drawing on Eastern aesthetic philosophies of meaningful incompleteness, twenty participants present work-in-progress storyboards addressing accessibility, cross-cultural design, algorithmic bias, or open exploration topics. Through small-group lightning presentations and structured critique, participants share process documentation that reveals strategic decisions about maintaining human authorship versus leveraging AI-generated content. Outcomes include an online exhibition at vischi.org, arXiv proceedings, and methodological insights about ethical human-AI creative collaboration. By foregrounding human agency in AI-augmented creativity and demonstrating how visual narratives effectively communicate complex sociotechnical challenges to inspire understanding and action, this visual storytelling can serve as a scholarly methodology in HCI research.

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Organizer:

Mengyao GUO ✝,

Jie FU ✝,

Zhijun PAN,

Mengzhi HE,

Yiran ZHANG,

Nick Bryan-Kinns*.

The original drawings and AI-generated images by applying gap-and-fill methodology.

The submission content.

The gap-and-fill methodology we used at our second edition.