⏰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
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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.








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.
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.
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.
Zhishun Chi 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.
Guan Wang is currently studying graphic design and illustration in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her research explores contemporary environmental, cultural, and societal complexities through diverse media, breaking traditional design boundaries and fostering collaborative learning across diverse backgrounds. Her recent project centres on collaborative, interactive intervention inspired by the concept of a ``smoking group." Titled ``Do you have a lighter?" it aims to create opportunities for students to connect with others and establish a sense of collective belonging within CSM.

PREVIOUS ORGANIZERS


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


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