Kexue Shirley Fu

Hi there!

I am currently a second-year research graduate studentat the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, working with Prof.RAY LC, Prof.Shengdong Zhao and Prof.Qinyuan Lei. My research focuses on empowering individuals in complex creative (e.g., storytelling, visual arts, dance performance) and communicative (e.g., science communication, avatar-mediated communication) contexts that require inspiration, creativity, and nuanced support.

I design human-in-the-loop interactions that align AI with human mental models, drawing on cognitive psychology, communication theories, and insights from mixed-method empirical research. My recent research focuses on designing human-AI interaction paradigm that leverages narrative structures through intuitive interactions and visual inspiration to support storytelling, facilitate knowledge transfer, and enhance creative insights.

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News

[April. 2025] One co-authored full paper "From Temporal to Spatial: Designing Spatialized Interactions with Segmented-audios in Immersive Environments for Active Engagement with Performing Arts Intangible Cultural Heritage" has been accepted by DIS 25.

[Mar. 2025] One co-authored full paper "RetroChat: Designing for the Preservation of Past Chinese Online Social Experiences" has been accepted by C&C 25.

[Feb. 2025] One co-authored full paper "A Constructed Response: Designing and Choreographing Robot Arm Movements in Collaborative Dance Improvisation" has been accepted by CSCW 25.

[Jan. 2025] One co-authored full paper "Becoming My Own Audience": How Dancers React to Avatars Unlike Themselves in Motion Capture-Supported Live Improvisational Performance" has been accepted by CHI 25.

[Oct. 2024] Submit 1 first author full paper to TOCHI. Also this is my first time to submit papers to HCI journal. Wish me Luck!

[Sep. 2024] Submit 2 co-author full papers and 1 workshop to CHI'25. Hope to hear good news and thanks to my co-authors!

[Sep. 2024] Pass my qualification exam. Now I am a PhD candidate! :)

[May. 2024] Fly to Hawaii to attend CHI'24 and travel for several days. Hope to meet new friends and see old friends!

[April. 2024] Attend and present my work at GBA pre-CHI event.

[April. 2024] My first-author pub "Being Eroded, Piece by Piece": Enhancing Engagement and Storytelling in Cultural Heritage Dissemination by Exhibiting GenAI Co-Creation Artifacts" has been accepted to DIS'24. Congrats to my co-authors!

[April. 2024] Our workshop "Dreamscaping: Supporting Creativity By Drawing Inspiration from Dreams" was accepted by Creativity & Cognition'24.

[March. 2024] Our Late-breaking Work "Sit on me please": Investigating Perception of Furniture Robotic Movements Using Video Prototyping was accepted by CHI'24.

[February. 2024] Being selected as a Volunteer for Creativity & Cognition'24.

[October. 2023] Being selected as a Virtual Volunteer for CHI PLAY'23.

[April 2023] Attend CHI'23 in Hamburg, Germany to give a full paper presentation on-site.

[March. 2023] My first-author pub "I Am a Mirror Dweller": Probing the Unique Strategies Users Take to Communicate in the Context of Mirrors in Social Virtual Reality has been accepted to CHI'23. Congrats to my co-authors!

Selected Publications

Human-AI Interaction to Support Science Communication

A Metacognitive LLM-Powered Interface for Visualizing Tradeoffs in Science Communication Writing(rephrased for anonymous)

First Author Manuscript under review
A Taxonomy of Storytelling Techniques for Online Science Communication and Enhance Learning

First Author Manuscript under review of TOCHI
CHI

RevTogether: Supporting Science Story Revision with Multiple AI Agents

Yu Zhang, Kexue Fu, Zhicong Lu

Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25)

Human-AI Interaction to Support Digital Storytelling

DIS

"Being Eroded, Piece by Piece": Enhancing Engagement and Storytelling in Cultural Heritage Dissemination by Exhibiting GenAI Co-Creation Artifacts

Kexue Fu, Ruishan Wu, Yuying Tang, Yixin Chen, Bowen Liu and RAY LC

Proceedings of the 2024 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24)

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DIS

From Temporal to Spatial: Designing Spatialized Interactions with Segmented-audios in Immersive Environments for Active Engagement with Performing Arts Intangible Cultural Heritage

Yuqi Wang, Sirui Wang, Shiman Zhang Kexue Fu, Michelle Lui and RAY LC

Proceedings of the 2025 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25)
C&C

RetroChat: Designing for the Preservation of Past Chinese Online Social Experiences

Suifang Zhou, Kexue Fu, Huanmin YI and RAY LC

Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '25)

Embodied Interaction for Empowering Creative Expression

CHI

"I Am a Mirror Dweller": Probing the Unique Strategies Users Take to Communicate in the Context of Mirrors in Social Virtual Reality

Kexue Fu*, Yixin Chen*, Jiaxun Cao, Xin Tong, and RAY LC

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)

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CSCW

A Constructed Response: Designing and Choreographing Robot Arm Movements in Collaborative Dance Improvisation

Xiaoyu Chang, Fan Zhang Kexue Fu, Carla Diana, Wendy Ju, RAY LC

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '25)
CHI

"Becoming My Own Audience": How Dancers React to Avatars Unlike Themselves in Motion Capture-Supported Live Improvisational Performance.

Fan Zhang, Molin Li, Xiaoyu Chang, Kexue Fu, Richard William Allen, RAY LC

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '25)