Visual Storytelling in Everyday Ubiquity:
Human-AI Co-Creation, Wearable Media, and Plural Futures

📅October 11, 2026 | 🕘Half-Day Workshop (09:00-12:30) | 🙋In Person | 📍Shanghai, China


Session 1: Welcome & Icebreaker


09:00 - 09:10


  • Introduction of organizers and participants
  • Workshop goals and overview


Session 2: Keynote Talk


09:10 - 09:30




  • Professor Siming Chen, Fudan University
  • (09:10-09:30) Title: Humanistic Intelligence: LLM-Powered Visual Analytics and Storytelling
  • Keynote Q&A

    09:30 - 09:50

    • Associate Professor Yue Li, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    • (09:30-09:50) Title: Seeing the Unseen: Visual Storytelling in Suzhou’s Historic Sites and Districts
    • Keynote Q&A

    Session 3: Paper Presentations Part 1

    10:00 - 10:30


    • (10:00-10:15) Paper 1 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Jiale Liu, Bohan Guo, Mengyao Guo
    • Palinode: Provenance-Aware Generative AI for User-Led Nightmare Re-Authoring

    • (10:15-10:30) Paper 2 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Ruijia Li, Xuejiao Ma, Bo Jiang
    • Which Aureliano? Human-AI Co-Created Visual Storytelling for Navigating Literary Worlds

    Coffee Break



    Session 4: Paper Presentations Part 2

    11:00 - 12:30

    • (11:00-11:13) Paper 3 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Zhao Zhao
    • This Tomato Has a Story: AI/AR Visual Storytelling for Reframing Imperfect Produce in Everyday Grocery Encounters

    • (11:13-11:26) Paper 4 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Rongcong Cai, Yezi Dong
    • Human–AI Co-Speculation for Wearable UbiComp Futures: Critical Prompting and the Evaluation of Plural Imaginaries

    • (11:26-11:39) Paper 5 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Haowei Xiong, Mengyao Guo, Chuhan Zhang, Jin Tian, Zhiwei Wang
    • Weaving the Deluge: AI-Enhanced Mixed Reality's Impact, Design, and Cultural Meaning in Traditional Bamboo Weaving

    • (11:39-11:52) Paper 6 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Zhiqi Gao, Haoyue Wang, Peisen Peng, Shuochen Zhao, Kuo Zhang, Mengyao Guo
    • TideCraft: A Minecraft-Based Voxel World for Cultural Storytelling at Heritage Sites

    • (11:52-12:05) Paper 7 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Jiatong Li, Xingquan Cai
    • When a Virtual Pet Moves In: Storyboarding AI Companionship in a VR Home

    • (12:05-12:18) Paper 8 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Xuyue Zhang, Qian Zhu, Yibo Meng, Joydeep Chandra
    • MoebiusDrum: Visualizing Groove and Practice Progression through Human-AI Co-Creation in Mixed-Reality Drumming

    • (12:18-12:30) Paper 9 Presentation and Q&A
    • Authors: Yiqi Li, Mo Zheng, Ze Gao
    • EmoSync: Enabling Real-Time Emotion Matching for Adaptive Human-AI Dialogue Using EEG and Psychological Perception

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