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Kexue 'Shirley' Fu

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HCI Researcher

City University of Hong Kong
kexuefu2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

I am always delighted to work and collaborate with brilliant minds!


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I am a third-year PhD candidate at City University of Hong Kong, where I have been fortunate to work with Prof. RAY LC, Prof. Shengdong Zhao, and Prof. Qinyuan Lei. I also served as a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, working with Prof. Toby Jiajun Li.

My research focuses on empowering individuals in complex creative and communicative contexts that require inspiration, creativity, and nuanced support.

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News

[March 2026] My first-author full paper to TOCHI has been accepted with minor revision! This is also my first journal paper in a long time since submission.
[March 2026] Will join Adobe Research as a Research Scientist Intern in San Jose β˜€οΈ. Super excited for this opportunity! πŸŒ‰ πŸ’»
[March 2026] SpatialBalancing accepted by DIS '26 (21% acceptance rate)! More details will come soon.
[March 2026] Will attend CHI'26 in Barcelona πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡«πŸ‡·. Hope to catch up with friends and meet new people there! ✈️ 🀝
[January 2026] Vistoria being accepted by CHIβ€˜26! Thanks to very supportive mentors and co-authors! πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰
[August 2025] Start my visiting scholar at University of Notre Dame, working with Prof. Toby Jiajun Li at SaNDwich Lab πŸ₯ͺ. Looking forward to this new Journey! 🀝
[May 2025] "From Temporal to Spatial" win Honorable Mention in DIS 25. Congrats to my co-authors! Our hard work pays off! 🎡
[May 2025] "RetroChat" win Honorable Mention in C&C 25. Congrats to my co-authors! πŸ“– πŸ’¬ πŸ’¬
[April 2025] Attend CHI'25 in Yokuhama, Japan. ✈️ 🍣
[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. πŸ“„ 🎡
[March 2025] One co-authored full paper "RetroChat: Designing for the Preservation of Past Chinese Online Social Experiences" has been accepted by C&C 25. πŸ“
[February 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. πŸ€–
[January 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. 🎭 πŸ’ƒ
[September 2024] Submit 2 co-author full papers and 1 workshop to CHI'25. Hope to hear good news and thanks to my co-authors! πŸ™Œ
[September 2024] Pass my qualification exam. Now I am a PhD candidate! πŸŽ‰
[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. πŸ“’
[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. πŸ’­
[March 2024] Our Late-breaking Work "Sit on me please": Investigating Perception of Furniture Robotic Movements Using Video Prototyping was accepted by CHI'24. πŸ›‹οΈ
[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. πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
[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! πŸͺž


Publications

Cognitive Support of Human-AI Interaction Paradigms

  1. CHI
    Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Image-Text Co-Editing
    Kexue Fu, Jingfei Huang, Long Ling, Sumin Hong, Yihang Zuo, RAY LC, Toby Jiajun Li
    Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
    Website Doi
  2. DIS
    Spatial Balancing: Designing an LLM-Powered Spatial Externalization Interface for Iterative Science Communication Writing
    Kexue Fu, Jiaye Leng, Yawen Zhang, Jingfei Huang, Yihang Zuo, Runze Cai, Zijian Ding, RAY LC, Shengdong Zhao, Qinyuan Lei
    Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26)
    Demo Doi Arxiv

    3. Human-AI Interaction to Support Science Communication

    1. TOCHI
      Crafting Memorable Science Stories: Harnessing the Power of Narrative Peaks in Online Science Videos
      Kexue Fu, Yawen Zhang, Hiu Man Ho, Wenzhe Hu, RAY LC, Qinyuan Lei, Shengdong Zhao
      Accepted with minor revision of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
      Coming Soon
    2. 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)
      PDF Doi

    Human-AI Interaction Design to Support Digital Storytelling

    1. 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)
      PDF Doi
    2. DIS
      From Temporal to Spatial: Designing Spatialized Interactions with Segmented-audios in Immersive Environments for Active Engagement with Performing Arts Intangible Cultural HeritageHonorable Mention
      Yuqi Wang, Sirui Wang, Shiman Zhang Kexue Fu, Michelle Lui and RAY LC
      Proceedings of the 2025 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25)
      PDF Doi
    3. C&C
      RetroChat: Designing for the Preservation of Past Chinese Online Social Experiences Honorable Mention
      Suifang Zhou, Kexue Fu, Huanmin YI and RAY LC
      Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '25)
      PDF Doi

    Embodied Interaction for Empowering Creative Expression

    1. 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)
      PDF Video Doi
    2. 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)
      PDF Doi
    3. 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)
      PDF Doi
    See my full publication in Google Scholar

Academic Service

  • Reviewer for ACM CHI, DIS, C&C, IMX, SIGGRAPH Asia
  • Program Committee Member for CHI LBW 2025