📌 Publications

(IEEE VR'26)Revolutionizing Education: Integrating Metaverse and the First AI Lecturers in Cross-Campus Higher Education (SA'25)Revolutionizing Education: Integrating Metaverse and the First AI Lecturers in Cross-Campus Higher Education (CSCW'25)‘My Dataset of Love’: A Preliminary Mixed-Method Exploration of Human-AI Romantic Relationships (UIST'25)Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects (EXPANDED'25)"Little Hands, Big Exhibitions" – Children’s Virtual Curation with Generative MR Toolbox (HCII'25)Artificial Human Lecturers: Initial Findings from Asia’s First AI Lecturers in Class to Promote Innovation in Education (CHI'23)StoryChat: Designing a Narrative-Based Viewer Participation Tool for Live Streaming Chatrooms

I explore the exciting world of human-AI relationships and their prosocial applications. Our digital friends can be more than just tools；they can help us with loving, empathy, creativity, and problem-solving! Below, you’ll find my publications neatly organized in reverse chronological order (because who doesn’t love neatness when searching?). And just a quick note: publications marked with * indicate equal contributions. Happy reading!


IEEE VR 2026

Enhancing Creativity in Virtuality: How Annotations in Creative Support Tool Innovate Design Ideation in Virtual Reality

#Creativity #CST #VR

Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Zhen Wu, Ahmad Alhilal, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

Revolutionizing Education: Integrating Metaverse and the First AI Lecturers in Cross-Campus Higher Education

#Prosocial AI #VR Educationy #EduTech

Ching Christie Pang, Yawei Zhao, Zhizhuo Yin, Jia Sun, Yuk Hang Tsui, Jin Shan, Pan Hui
In SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Educator's Forum (SA '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.



CSCW 2025

‘My Dataset of Love’: A Preliminary Mixed-Method Exploration of Human-AI Romantic Relationships

#AI-Dating #Human-AI Intimacy #Human-AI Relationships #Parasocial relationship

Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Pan Hui
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW) (to appear at CSCW 2025), Oct.2025



UIST 2025

Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects

#Anthropomorphic AI #Wearable Technology #Multi-functioned HAI #Creativity #Companionship

Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Pan Hui
In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25)



EXPANDED 2025

"Little Hands, Big Exhibitions" – Children’s Virtual Curation with Generative MR Toolbox

#Exhibition #Human-AI Relationships #Creativity

Yuyang Jiang, Cekai Weng, Ching Christie Pang, Pengfei Yu, Yuqi Liang, Pan Hui
Accepted by Expanded 2025 @Ars Electronica Festival



HCII 2025

Artificial Human Lecturers: Initial Findings from Asia’s First AI Lecturers in Class to Promote Innovation in Education

#Prosocial AI #EduTech

Ching Christie Pang, Yawei Zhao, Zhizhuo Yin, Jia Sun, Reza Hadi Mogavo, Pan Hui
In: Smith, B.K., Borge, M. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15807. Springer, Cham.



CHI 2023

StoryChat: Designing a Narrative-Based Viewer Participation Tool for Live Streaming Chatrooms

#Design Space #Online Community #Narrative #Social Media

Ryan Yen, Li Feng, Brinda Mehra, Ching Christie Pang, Siying Hu, and Zhicong Lu
In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 795, 1–18.



Under Review

The AI Amplifier Effect: Defining Human-AI Intimacy and Romantic Relationships with Conversational AI

#Social Impact #AI-Dating #Human-AI Intimacy #Human-AI Relationships

Ching Christie Pang, Yi Gao*, Xuetong Wang*, Pan Hui
Under Review



Under Review

The Decline of Online Knowledge Communities: Obstacles, Workarounds, and Sustainability

#Social Impact #Influence of AI #Human-AI Relationships

Ching Christie Pang, Xuetong Wang, Pan Hui
Under Review



Under Review

Text2LucidDream: Text-driven Generative Interactive Immersive World with Physical-Attributed Objects

#VR Generation #Metaverse #Creativity

Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Zhizhuo Yin, Pan Hui
Under Review