Hi, I’m Qian Wan, 萬騫.

I’m a final year PhD candidate at City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Professor Yuhan Luo, and previously Professor Zhicong Lu. My current research explores the intersection between creativity support, human-AI collaboration, and social computing. Specifically, I seek to understand the anthropomorphized role of GenAI in creative thinking process, unravel downstream implications of co-creative activities such as storytelling in personal informatics, and design new paradigms and workflows to support human-GenAI collaboration.

Besides HCI research, I love reading philosophy.

Selected publications

Through the design of Polymind, we explored the potential of parallel collaboration with multiple mixed initiative agents on a visual diagramming canvas. To operationalize parallel collaboration, we borrowed design metaphors from groupware such as microtasks.

Metamorpheus is an affective interface that engages users in a metaphorical dream narration for affective mindfulness and self-reflection. Our evaluation found the co-creation of metaphorical visual stories helped articulate ineffable emotions, created a sense of connnectedness between creators, and motivated dream sharing.

In an empirical study with 15 participants, we identified three theoretically-grounded stages of co-creativity during prewriting with GPT-3.