I am a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) field across LLM, design, and the Metaverse at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of professor Pan Hui.
My research focuses on AI-supported creativity and human-AI collaboration, always inspired by my interdisciplinary design background. My research work has published in venues such as ACM CSUR/CSCW/MM/IUI/ICMI. My art and design work has been featured in exhibitions such as Chinese CHI, the NTU Art Exhibition, the Johan Verbeke International Exhibition. I currently work in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (MC2 lab).
🔥 News
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Eye2Recall was accepted to IUI 2026! The conference will hold in Paphos, Cyprus (a beautiful island country in the eastern Mediterranean) on March 23-26, 2026.
- 2025.10: I demonsrated our work Pinning “Reflection” on the Agenda at CSCW ’25 in Bergen, Norway!
- 2025.06: As the curatorial executive of MC2 curatorial team, I organised, prepared, and curated the world’s first exhibition of Extended Reality x AI - Surreality (幻实之境). The exhibition is open to the public and is on display at HKUST (GZ) in China from 26 June - 26 August.
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉 Pinning “Reflection” on the Agenda was accepted to CSCW 2025 (Poster Track)!
- 2025.03: I organized a field trip as part of the UCUG1001 course, facilitating a visit and learning experience for first-year undergraduate students to Qihui School (a special education school) in Nansha, China.
- 2025.02: I served as a TA for UCUG1001 (L02) course - Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness at HKUST(GZ).
- 2024.09: I served as a TA for INFH 5000 course - Information Science and Technology: Essentials and Trends at HKUST(GZ).
- 2024.07: 🎉🎉 Towards AI-Architecture Liberty was accepted to ACM Computing Surveys!
- 2022.11: 🏅🏅 Decentralized, not Dehumanized in the Metaverse was selected as Blue Sky Track Winners (3rd Place) at ICMI 2022 - CCC Blog. The conference was held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India on on November 7-11th.
📑 Publications
Eye2Recall: Exploring the Design of Enhancing Reminiscence Activities via Eye Tracking-Based LLM-Powered Interaction Experience for Older Adults, Han Lei, Mingnan Wei, Qiongyan Chen, Anqi Wang, Rong Pang, David Yip, Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), March, 2026, Paphos, Cyprus (Date of acceptance: 12 December 2025)
Pinning “Reflection” on the Agenda: Investigating Reflection in Human–LLM Co-Creation for Creative Coding
Anqi Wang, Zhizhuo Yin, Yulu Hu, Yuanyuan Mao, Lei Han, Xin Tong, Keqin Jiao, Pan Hui
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ‘25), Bergen, Norway, October 2025 (Date of acceptance: 19 June 2025)
- We demonstrate how Baumer’s reflection typology applies and adapts in the context of LLM-based creative coding;
- We conduct an empirical evidence showing how task-decomposed prompting fosters deeper, more strategic reflection;
- We propose design implications for rethinking reflective prompting beyond productivity scaffolding, but as a catalyst for creative reasoning and adaptive goal-setting.
Towards AI-Architecture Liberty: A Comprehensive Survey on Design and Generation of Virtual Architecture by Deep Learning
Anqi Wang, Jiahua Dong, Lik-Hang Lee, Jiachuan Shen, Pan Hui
PDF | ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) (Date of acceptance: 9 July 2024)
Futuring Communication between Lgbtq+ and Cisgender Groups in Metaverse Space
Anqi Wang, Lei Han, Jiahua Dong, Muzhi Zhou, David Yip, Yuyang Wang, Pan Hui
PoEmotion: Generative Calligraphy Visualizing Emotion in Poems
Tiancheng Liu, Anqi Wang, Xinda Chen, Jing Yan, Yan Li, Pan Hui, Kang Zhang
ArXiv | ISEA 2024
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Envisioning A Hyper-Learning System in the Age of Metaverse, Anqi Wang, Ze Gao, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui, SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2022
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Interspaces Between Nature and the City, Z. Bai, Y. Wang, J. Guo, A. Wang, H. Yue, Z. Gao, … L. Tan | PDF | Chinese CHI 2022
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Meditation in Motion: Interactive Media Art Visualization Based on Ancient Tai Chi Chuan, Ze Gao, Anqi Wang, Pan Hui, Tristan Braud, ACM Multimedia 2022
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Digital Art in the Age of Metaverse and NFT, Ze Gao, Anqi Wang, Pan Hui, Tristan Braud, Computer Art Congress 7 (CAC.7)
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VR PreM+: An Immersive Pre-learning Branching Visualization System for Museum Tours, Ze Gao, Xiang Li, Changkun Liu, Xian Wang, Anqi Wang, Liang Yang, Yuyang Wang, Pan Hui, Tristan Braud, Chinese CHI 2023
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Bridging Curatorial Intent and Visiting Experience: Using AR Guidance as a Storytelling Tool, Ze Gao, Anqi Wang, Pan Hui, Tristan Braud, SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2022 (Co-first authors)
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Urban Cultural Inheritance: GANs Assisted Street Facade Design in VR Based on Hakka Settlements, Jiahua Dong, Ruiqing Jiang, Anqi Wang, Yuankai Wang, CAADRIA 2023
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The Bartlett B-Pro Show Book 2021, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, 2021 | PDF
🌟 Honors and Awards
- 08-2023 Metaverse Digital Art Festival of the Greater Bay Area (Bronze)
- 12-2022 Videogame Competition (Non Architecture), Winner (1st Prize)
- 11-2022 Meta-City Competition (Non Architecture), Honorable Mention
- 11-2022 RIBA 100 Young Creator in Metaverse, Nomination
- 11-2022 Chinese CHI Art Gallery, Diamond Prize
- 11-2022 NTU Global Digital Art Prize, Shortlist Award
- 10-2022 DesignNOVA Awards, Shortlist
- 06-2022 MetaCity Innovator Competition, Silver
- 10-2021 CGarchitect 3Dawards, Nominee
- 11-2020 Asian Design Award, Bronze
- 06-2020 GAFA Honorary Graduation Design Award (Top 1%)
- 06-2020 GAFA Graduation Award for Excellence Creation (Top 5%)
- 10-2019 GAFA “Designing GAFA” Competition, Merit
- 11-2018 Golden Finger Awards, Merit
- 10-2018 Design for China, National Design Exhibition
- 05-2018 Grand Bay Student Joint Exhibition (HK, MO & Guangzhou)
📖 Educations
- 2022.02 - now, Hong Kong University of Technology and Science
- 2020.09 - 2021.12, University College London
- 2016.09 - 2020.06, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
💬 Invited Talks
- 2023.12, Outstanding Graduates Personal Sharing, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Overseas Graduate Society
- 2022.08, Hyper-Learning and Unlearning – Compression: Excursions on Media Ecologies, KoozArch
Online Interview - 2021.09, (De)centralizing Education: P2P Learning, Round the Table, UCL
Organised by AF Architecture, Bartlett B-Pro
💻 Internships
- 2021.10 - 2022.09, City Science Lab @ Shanghai, China.
🖼 Exhibitions
- 11-2022, NTU Global Digital Art Prize, Singapore
- 11-2022, Chinese CHI Art Gallery, Guangzhou (Online Version)
- 10-2022, ACM Multimedia 2022 Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
- 09-2022, eCAADe 2022, KU Leuven, Brussels
- 08-2022, Messier 31 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Online
- 08-2022, Electric Dreams, CMA Symposium and Exhibition (Online)
- 10-2021–03-2022, Expo 2020 Dubai, Chinese Culture Palace
- 10-2021, The Bartlett B-Pro Show, London & Online
- 11-2020, CAFA National Graduate Exhibition
- 12-2020, Zhuhai International Design Week
- 11-2019, China Social Welfare Foundation Charity Exhibition
- 10-2018, “Design for China”, National Design Exhibition
- 05-2018, Grand Bay Student Joint Exhibition (HK, MO & GZ)