Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity:
Human-AI Co-Creation, Wearable Media, and Plural Futures
📅October 11/12, 2026 | 🕘Half-Day Workshop (3 hours) | 🙋In Person | 📍Shanghai, China
Human-AI Co-Creation, Wearable Media, and Plural Futures
📅October 11/12, 2026 | 🕘Half-Day Workshop (3 hours) | 🙋In Person | 📍Shanghai, China
Session 1: Welcome & Icebreaker
09:00 - 09:10
- Introduction of organizers and participants
- Workshop goals and overview
Session 2: Paper Presentations
09:10 - 10:40
- Accepted papers (10 min talk + Q&A each)
- Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Visual methods for communicating invisible, ambient, and body-worn technologies
- Human-AI collaborative workflows for rapid visual prototyping of ubiquitous technologies
- Sketch-based techniques and visual grammars for early-stage UbiComp concept development and wearable interface representation
- Speculative design approaches for imagining plural technological futures across diverse communities
- Feminist, postcolonial, and disability justice approaches to visual representation in ubiquitous computing
- Cross-cultural perspectives on wearable technology narratives
- Ethical considerations in AI-generated imagery and algorithmic bias in UbiComp/ISWC visualization
Coffee Break
Session 3: Hands-On Creation
11:00 - 11:40
- Introduction to gap-and-fill methodology
- Create visual narratives about wearable media in everyday Shanghai contexts
- Use provided templates, drawing tools, or AI-assisted generation
Session 4: Gallery Critique & Closing
11:40 - 12:00
- Display and discuss created works
- Reflection on visual methods for ubiquitous computing
- Closing remarks