⏰Time:
June 23, 2025 (UTC+1)📍Location:
Zoom🚀Venue:
ACM C&C (Workshop 02)
📝Note:
Participation requires registration for the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2025 conference
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Welcome to HCI in Visual Storytelling
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Our Workshop’s Abstract

Visual narrative methodologies provide a more comprehensive and intuitive framework for articulating the multifaceted interactions between human users and computational systems. This workshop guides participants through five segments: image-based storytelling, figure sketching, narrative development, practical exercises, and collaborative critique. Participants learn to translate complex interactive systems into clear visual narratives using both analog and digital techniques. Through structured activities and provided resources, they develop skills to effectively communicate user experiences, system behaviors, and design concepts across stakeholder groups. The workshop equips both new and experienced practitioners with tools to enhance design communication and cross-cultural collaboration in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).






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 Asia. Her current work combines expertise in visual storytelling with cutting-edge technology to explore new forms of artistic expression and HCI.
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.
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.
Jie Fu 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.
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.

ORGANIZERS


Mengyao Guo,
mengyaoguo@vischi.org
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen,
University of the Arts London, 
China & UK

Ze Gao,
zegao@vischi.org
Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong, China

Kexin Nie,
bellanie@vischi.org
University of Sydney, 
Australia

Jinda Han,
jindahan@vischi.org
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 
USA

Jie Fu,
jiefu@vischi.org
University of the Arts London, 
United Kingdom