Kexue Shirley Fu

Hi there!

I am currently a third-year PhD candidate at City University of Hong Kong , working with Prof. RAY LC, Prof. Shengdong Zhao and Prof. Qinyuan Lei. I am also serving as a visiting scholar at 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.

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 interfaces and paradigms that leverage multimodality to support storytelling, facilitate knowledge transfer, and enhance creative insights.

🌟 I am actively looking for research intern and visiting researcher positions ! 📧 Please email me if you have suitable opportunities! 🙏

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News

[August 2025] Start my visiting scholar at University of Notre Dame, working with Prof. Toby Jiajun Li at SaNDwich Lab 🥪. 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! 📖 💬 💬

[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. 📄 🎵

[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. 📝

[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. 🤖

[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. 🎭 💃

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

[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! 🙌

[September 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

Cognitive Support of Human-AI Interaction Paradigms

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text–Image Co-Editing

Kexue Fu, Jingfei Huang, Ling Long, Sumin Hong, Yihang Zuo, RAY LC, Toby Jiajun Li
Manuscript under review

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Spatial Balancing: Harnessing Spatial Reasoning to Balance Scientific Exposition and Narrative Engagement in LLM-assisted Science CommunicationWriting

Kexue Fu, Jiaye Leng, Yawen Zhang, Jingfei Huang, Yihang Zuo, Runze Cai, Zijian Ding, RAY LC, Shengdong Zhao, Qinyuan Lei
Manuscript under review

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Human-AI Interaction to Support Science Communication

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

Major revision of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

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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)

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Human-AI Interaction Design 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 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)

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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)

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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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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)

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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)

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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

Kexue 'Shirley' Fu

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HCI Researcher

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