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 and David Yip.
My research focuses on AI-supported creativity and human-AI collaboration, always inspired by my interdisciplinary design background. I investigates how emerging AI can augment human cognition and capability, especially in creative domains. 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
- 2026.04: 🎉🎉 Our two papers, DesignerlyLoop and Dream the Dream, have been fully accepted to 🇸🇬DIS 2026.
- 2026.03: Our Reflection in Creative Experience (RiCE) Workshop [Website] was accepted to 🇬🇧C&C (Creativity and Cognition) Conference 2026!
- 2026.03: I served as an AC for the DiWP track at 🇸🇬DIS 2026.
- 2026.02: 🎉🎉 Echoing Streams was accepted to 🇦🇪ISEA 2026!
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Eye2Recall was accepted to 🇨🇾IUI 2026!
- 2025.10: I demonstrated 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)!
- 2024.07: 🎉🎉 Towards AI-Architecture Liberty was accepted to ACM Computing Surveys!
📑 Publications
CogInstrument: Modeling Cognitive Processes for Bidirectional Human-LLM Alignment in Planning Tasks
Anqi Wang, Dongyijie Primo Pan, Xin Tong, Pan Hui | ArXiv Introducing cognitive motifs to formalize user reasoning as causal, compositional, and revisable structures, reframing human–LLM alignment around user-grounded cognitive processes; implementing it and evaluating via user studies.
NexusAI: Enabling Design Space Exploration of Ideas through Cognitive Abstraction and Functional Decomposition
Anqi Wang, Bingqian Wang, Huiyang Chen, Keqing Jiao, Lei Han, Xin Tong, Pan Hui | ArXiv Proposing Cognitive Abstraction (CA), an intermediate layer transforming monolithic LLM outputs into manipulable, multi-dimensional design spaces to solve compositional opacity; implementing it and evaluating via user studies.
Reflexa: Uncovering How LLM-Supported Reflection Scaffolding Reshapes Creativity in Creative Coding
Anqi Wang, Zhengyi Li, Lan Luo, Xin Tong, Pan Hui | ArXiv
- Proposing a LLM-based reflection scaffolding for creative coding.
- Developing Reflexa system, including three reflection strategies: reflective suggestions, lightweight inspiration, and non-linear version visualization.
- Demonstrates that its effectiveness in supporting reflection, creativity, and creative outcomes ($N=18$).
DesignerlyLoop: Forming Design Intent through Curated Reasoning for Human-LLM Alignment
Anqi Wang, Zhengyi Li, Xin Tong, Pan Hui
ArXiv | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’26), Singapore, June 2026
- Identifing a core gap between iterative intent formulation in design and LLMs’ assumption of complete inputs, limiting exploratory reasoning.
- Introducing curated reasoning and validing it in user studies.
Dream the Dream: Futuring Communication between Lgbtq+ and Cisgender Groups in Metaverse Space
Anqi Wang, Lei Han, Jiahua Dong, Muzhi Zhou, David Yip, Yuyang Wang, Pan Hui
ArXiv | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’26), Singapore, June 2026
- Conducting future design workshop for identifying cross-group communication challenges, and inclusive Metaverse interaction design.
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
PDF | ArXiv | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026), July, 2026, Paphos, Cyprus
- Developing Eye2Recall, a system that transforms eye gaze on photos into adaptive LLM prompts, eliciting reflective storytelling via old photos.
- Demonstrating improved mood, low cognitive load, and enhanced retrieval of concrete memories.
Echoing Streams: Constellating Calligraphic Ritual, Place and Data through Interactive Experience
Lei Han, Anqi Wang, Ziqi Lin, David Yip
International Symposium on Electronic / Emerging Art (ISEA 2026), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Date of acceptance: 27 Feb 2026)
- Reimagining cultural ritual through interactive systems: Translates Qu Shui Liu Shang and calligraphy tracing into a multisensory, data-driven installation that bridges historical practice and contemporary interaction.
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
PDF | ArXiv | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ‘25), Bergen, Norway, October 2025 (Date of acceptance: 19 June 2025)
- Investigating how creative practiciors interacte with LLM in creative coding;
- Demonstrating task-decomposed prompting strategies fosters deeper, more strategic reflection
PoEmotion: Generative Calligraphy Visualizing Emotion in Poems
Tiancheng Liu, Anqi Wang, Xinda Chen, Jing Yan, Yan Li, Pan Hui, Kang Zhang
ArXiv | International Symposium on Electronic Art 2024 (ISEA 2024), Brisbane, Australia, June 2024
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Envisioning A Hyper-Learning System in the Age of Metaverse, A. Wang, Z. Gao, T. Braud, P. 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, Z. Gao, Anqi Wang, P. Hui, T. Braud, ACM Multimedia 2022
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Digital Art in the Age of Metaverse and NFT, Z. Gao, A. Wang, P. Hui, T. Braud, Computer Art Congress 7 (CAC.7)
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VR PreM+: An Immersive Pre-learning Branching Visualization System for Museum Tours, Z. Gao, X. Li, C. Liu, X. Wang, Anqi Wang, L. Yang, Y. Wang, P. Hui, T. Braud, Chinese CHI 2023
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Bridging Curatorial Intent and Visiting Experience: Using AR Guidance as a Storytelling Tool, Z. Gao, A. Wang, P. Hui, T. 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, J. Dong, R. Jiang, A. Wang, Y. Wang, CAADRIA 2023
🌟 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: 🏅🏅 Decentralized, not Dehumanized in the Metaverse paper was selected as Blue Sky Track Winners (3rd Place) at ICMI 2022 - CCC Blog.
- 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
💻 Internships
- 2021.10 - 2022.09, Tongji-MIT Meida Lab - 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)