Schedule

VINCI 2026 · Hangzhou, China · 1–4 November 2026. This program is subject to change.

Sunday, 1 November

08:30–17:00

Registration Opens

Chengbei Wenlan Hotel lobby

Monday, 2 November

08:30–09:00

Registration Opens

Chengbei Wenlan Hotel lobby

09:00–09:30

Conference OpeningChair: Wei Zhang Hangzhou City UniversityWelcome remarks: Yun Chen (Hangzhou City University). VINCI overview: Yuxin Ma (Southern University of Science and Technology). Paper-track overview: Yuxin Ma, Piwen Xu, Xiaojuan Chen and Wei Zeng.

Wenjin Hall

09:30–10:30

Opening Keynote: Beyond Generation: Supporting Human Creativity and Learning with AI — Hongbo FuChair: James She The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Wenjin Hall

10:30–10:50

Coffee Break

Outside Wenjin Hall

10:50–11:50

Keynote 2: Living Archives: From Digital Preservation to Artistic Reinterpretation — Juergen HaglerChair: James She The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Wenjin Hall

12:30–13:30

Lunch

Hotel restaurant

14:00–15:50

Art Paper 1 Embodied Interactive ArtChair: Zi-Wi WU, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Wenjin Hall A

14:00–15:50

Cultural Computing 1 Cultural Visualization and MemoryChair: Wei Ren Hangzhou City University

Wenjin Hall B

15:50–16:10

Coffee Break

Outside the meeting halls

16:10–18:00

Technical Paper 1: Visual Analytics and EvaluationChair: Chaoqing Xu Hangzhou City University

Wenjin Hall A

16:10–18:00

Cultural Computing 2: Cultural Reconstruction and CreationChair: Tan Tang Zhejiang University

Wenjin Hall B

18:30–20:00

Reception

Hotel restaurant

Tuesday, 3 November

08:30–09:00

Registration Opens

Chengbei Wenlan Hotel lobby

09:00–10:20

Technical Paper 2: Visual Generation and StorytellingChair: Yuxin Ma, Southern University of Science and Technology

Wenjin Hall A

09:00–10:20

Cultural Computing 3: Immersive Cultural ExperiencesChair: Wei Zeng, HKUST (Guangzhou)

Wenjin Hall B

10:20–10:40

Coffee Break

Outside the meeting halls

10:40–12:00

Technical Paper 3: Embodied and Visual InteractionChair: Yuxin Ma, Southern University of Science and Technology

Wenjin Hall A

10:40–12:00

Art Paper 2: Heritage and MemoryChair: Tongzhou Yu, China Academy of Art

Wenjin Hall B

12:30–13:30

Lunch

Hotel restaurant

14:00–14:20

Transfer to OōEli Tianmuli

Hotel entrance

14:20–17:30

Art and Media Gallery

OōEli Tianmuli

18:30–20:00

Conference Dinner and Performance

Wenlan

Wednesday, 4 November

08:30–09:00

Registration Opens

Chengbei Wenlan Hotel lobby

09:00–10:20

Art Paper 3: AI Cinema and PerformanceChair: Claire QI, China Academy of Art

Wenjin Hall A

10:20–10:40

Coffee Break

Outside the meeting halls

10:40–12:00

Art Paper 4: Algorithmic AestheticsChair: Yin BING , China Academy of Art

Wenjin Hall A

12:30–13:30

Lunch

Hotel restaurant

14:00–15:00

Keynote 3: Explorations on Novel Natural Human-Computer Interaction Techniques — Feng TianChair: Piwen Xu, HKUST (Guangzhou)

Wenjin Hall

15:00–15:20

Coffee Break

Outside Wenjin Hall

15:20–16:20

Leonardo @ VINCI Panel Discussion

16:20–16:25

Awards Ceremony

Wenjin Hall

16:25–16:35

Next VINCI Host Introduction — Tony Huang

Wenjin Hall

16:35–17:00

Closing Remarks — James She

Wenjin Hall

Paper Sessions

Full papers: 13 minutes. Short papers and posters: 8 minutes. All durations include Q&A.

14:00–15:50 | Wenjin Hall A | Art Paper

A1 Embodied Interactive Art

CosmoSonic: Resonating with the Void - A Multimodal Embodied Interaction System Based on Real-Time Cosmological Data Mapping fullhu, xinyang; tan, qianxi; Ji, tianyang; Wang, ziyi
Riding the Clock: Designing an Interactive Installation with a Sound-Based Narrative to Facilitate Empathy for Food Delivery Riders’ Everyday Challenges fullLI, Heyue; HU, Yufei; ZHU, Lisha; ZHANG, Wanlin
Entangled Ballet: A Data-Driven Choreography of Embodied Entanglement fullWenjing, Mao; zhang, shumeng; Lin, Han; wu, ziyang; Hui, Pan
Turning the Market: Feng Shui, Financial Data, and Unstable Control in HUM DOOM shortZhou, Ziling
"Breathing with the Tide" -- Handcrafted Textiles, Oceanic Respiration, and the Ritual of Healing shortSun, Qianyi; JIANG, Yuyang; WU, Lei; Song, Wei
Sediments of the Machine Age: AI Fossil posterWu, Ziyang; Meng, Shengyu

14:00–15:50 | Wenjin Hall B | Cultural Computing

C1 Cultural Visualization and Memory

Translation Workflow and Traceability in Visual Design for Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of Shanshui Yingji and Ni Xiaodu fullWang, Chenan; Zhu, Binning
MotifTrails: Citation-Anchored Visual Analysis and Scholarly Narration for Cross-Cultural Migration Hypotheses of Decorative Motifs fullTAO, LINCHEN; huang, zhongjie
Archive-M: Visual Analytics of Visual Modernity in China Machine Federation Journal Advertising Archives fullYe, Lin; You, Yue; Li, Kelin; Mao, Xi
SealScope: Visual Analytics of Small Seal Script fullXie, Liyi; Su, Zhewei; Zhang, Yu; Peng, Yujia; Tong, Xin; Zhang, Kang
JDVis: An Evidence-Traceable Framework for the Visual Translation of Jiandu Transcriptions fullYe, Ziduo; Xu, Jiahao; Li, Jinjuan; Zhang, Zhan
From Traces to Narrative Visualization:A Cross-Media Framework for Urban Cultural Heritage shortYu, Hanyang; Li, Anda; Han, Yuge
Walking Back Together: Everyday Mobile VR Capture and Shared Spatial Memory-Making shortLiu, Yujie; Yip, David
From Que-Tower Procession to Stereoscopic 360° VR: Viewpoint Translation and Depth-Layered Construction of a Historical Urban Scene posterQian, Yiyi; Huang, Zirui; Zhang, Kebo; Tang, Angela Chulei; Yu, Zhen; Bing, Yin

16:10–18:00 | Wenjin Hall A | Technical

T1 Visual Analytics and Evaluation

Quantitative Evaluation of Comparative Visualization Methods for Change Identification in Multi-Temporal Point Clouds fullWegen, Ole; Heidisch, Lukas; Scheibel, Willy; Richter, Rico; Barz-Cech, Tim; Döllner, Jürgen
TrackletViz: Visual Analytics for Tracklets of Security-Camera Footage fullWattasseril, Jobin Idiculla; Scheibel, Willy; Döllner, Jürgen
Visual Analysis of Multi-Objective Parametric Architectural Design fullNgo, Quynh; Grund, Sebastian; Abdelaal, Moataz; Zorn, Max; Kurzhals, Kuno; Wortmann, Thomas; Weiskopf, Daniel; Sedlmair, Michael
Visualization of Machine Learning Models through Their Spatial and Temporal Listeners fullWu, Siyu; Shi, Lei; Xia, Lei; Wu, Cenyang; Liu, Zipeng; Feng, Yingchaojie; Zhou, Liang; Chen, Wei
Toward Diagrammatic Modal Reasoning: Exploring the Boundaries of Modal Euler Diagrams shortSato, Yuri; Kawamitsu, Hazuki
HarmonAI: A Visual Interface for AI-assisted Music Harmonization shortRau, Simeon; Brachtel, Benedikt; Sedlmair, Michael
What is Effective: A Contextual Evaluation of Interaction and Visual Design in Data Visualization shortLu, Nannan; Zhang, Jing; Li, Ruohan; Li, Ke-Lin
ST-Refinery: Interactive Comparison and Local Refinement of Clustering Results in Spatial Transcriptomics shortFu, Hongxin; Feng, Junning; Lou, Yi; Li, Wei; Zhang, Yanlin
Cross-Reality Physicalization for Urban Design Exploration shortÖney, Seyda; Papadimitraki, Maria; Geringer, Sergej; Bocksch, Yannik; Bohn, Florian; Rohwer, Jakob; Menges, Achim; Kurzhals, Kuno; Weiskopf, Daniel

16:10–18:00 | Wenjin Hall B | Cultural Computing

C2 Cultural Reconstruction and Creation

ArtifactReborn: Visualizing Cultural Features in Anthropomorphic Design fullXu, Ningning; Zhao, Yuer; Zhang, Zhichao; Liu, Yu; Li, Kaiwen; Yu, Lingyun
Archive-to-Figure: A Framework for Generating Culturally Authentic Historical Figures from Archives fullSHE, JAMES; LI, YANYI
Communicating Restoration in Cultural Heritage Inpainting: A Two-Track Visual Evaluation Framework fullAl-Madhehagi, Mohammed; Sun, Zengguo; Chang, Jumei; Wu, Xiaojun
What the Listener Keeps: An Autoethnography Comparing a Documenter's Memory, AI-Generated Imaginings, and Photographs of Others' Cherished Objects fullOzawa, Chinatsu; Ochiai, Yoichi; Takeda, Masaki
Visual Cultural Encoding: An Intermediate Representation for Traceable Human–AI Co-Creation in Cultural Learning fullXiao, Luran
Provenance-Aware AIGC Storyboarding for Fragmented Mural Heritage: A Kizil Cave Musician Case Study shortLI, YIFAN; RUAN, HANMO
Visualizing Enterprise Identity: A Cross-Cultural Governance Framework for AI-Mediated Brand Storytelling shortCui, Wei; He, Hanfu; Chang, Yin; Chen, Litao; Chen, Guo; Huang, Xiaojun; Gao, Ze
ShanShui Image Resonance posterXu, Mingheng; Ma, Yunshu; Zhou, Zhiyuan

Tuesday 3 November 2026

09:00–10:20 | Wenjin Hall A | Technical

T2 Visual Generation and Storytelling

SSCtrl: Spatial-Semantic Control with Decoupled Local-Global Attention Focusing in Diffusion Transformer fullLin, Haichuan; Wei, Zeng
VIS-Shepherd: Constructing Critic for LLM-based Data Visualization Generation fullPan, Bo; Fu, Yixiao; Wang, Ke; Lu, Junyu; Pan, Lunke; Qian, Ziyang; Chen, Yuhan; Wang, Guoliang; Zhou, Yitao; Zheng, Li; Tang, Yinghao; Wen, Zhen; Wu, Yunchen; Lu, Junhua; Zhu, Biao; Zhu, Minfeng; Zhang, Bo; Chen, Wei
Seamless: Strategies for Combining Practical Light with Virtual Light in Virtual Production fullLU, Wenchuan; LI, Yuelu; LIN, Shiqi; HUI, Pan; Yip, David
VideoMaster: Directing Data Videos with Cinematic Narrative fullLuo, Yile; Xie, Yupeng; Yang, Weikai
PoemVis: An Interactive Tool for Interpretable Poetry Image Generation fullKou, Jiajia; Wang, Haoxuan; Zhou, Yuqi; Zheng, Luogan; Liu, Yuhua; Zhou, Zhiguang

09:00–10:20 | Wenjin Hall B | Cultural Computing

C3 Immersive Cultural Experiences

From Literary World to Virtual Stage: Visualizing the Cultural Imaginary of Gormenghast fullGallist, Nils; Bayr, Lisa; Arbeithuber, Katharina; Hagler, Juergen
Ink Rhythm: Mutual Metaphorization of Calligraphy and Dance for Embodied Immersive Cultural Experience fullTang, Ning; Xu, Ting; Zhang, Kang; Yip, David Kei-man; Wang, Zeyu
ColorFilteringAR: Designing an Interactive Installation to Address Accessibility Challenges Faced by Non-Native Speakers in Urban Mobility fullGANBAT, Khaliun; FU, HaoKun; WU, Yeqing; ZHU, Lisha; ZHANG, Wanlin
The Miniature Han Theatre: AI-Driven Spatial Analysis and VR Gamification of Pottery Houses shortWang, Yongbin; Qin, Jiage; Wu, You; Xiao, Qiushi
Awakening the Lost Moat: AI-Assisted Multimodal Semantic Integration and AR Spatial Mapping for Millennium-Old Water Heritage shortTian, Junwei; Yu, Jian; Wang, Yu; Huang, Leran; Chen, Haokai; Zeng, Wei
PuppetryAR: Connecting Puppet Making and Performance through A Phygital Heritage Experience posterLI, Xintian; ZHANG, Wanlin

10:40–12:00 | Wenjin Hall A | Technical

T3 Embodied and Visual Interaction

Formation DancAR: Facilitating Formation Dance Practice with Augmented Reality fullBeck, Samuel; Doerr, Nina; Sedlmair, Michael; Stuerzlinger, Wolfgang; Koch, Steffen
POS-VA: A Visual Analysis System for Peking Opera Scripts fullLi, Ye; Bao, Han Ni; Chen, Si Jie; Yang, Ying Ping; Chen, Jia Zhou
AxisMirror: An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Beijing Cultural Landmarks fullLi, Wenwen; Lei, Yuxin; Chen, Jiayi; Yang, Yingping; You, Guangtao; Chen, Jiazhou
Row-to-Flow: A Semantic Layer for Rhythmic Embodied Interaction shortCao, Jinbo; Cao, Qizhen; Li, Zhelai
Co-Creating Heritage Exhibitions: A Multi-Agent System Translating Design Expertise into Human-AI Collaboration shortYang, Jun; Yu, Jian; Rao, Ziyi; Zhong, Jing; Zhang, Zhengjia; Nanetti, Andrea
CultureWeave: A Knowledge Graph-grounded AIGC Framework for Ethnic Costume Storytelling shortLI, YANYI; SHE, JAMES

10:40–12:00 | Wenjin Hall B | Art Paper

A2 Heritage and Memory

Practical Application of a Spatial Reality Display for 3D Digital Archives --- A Case Study in a Football Museum fullMurakami, Takahito; Torii, Maya; Li, Jingjing; Ochiai, Yoichi
MR ILLUMINATES: Participatory Heritage Reconstruction through Ritualized Mixed Reality fullHe, Yezi; Wang, Zhaohan; Xiao, Sirui; Qin, Zekun; Bai, Yun; Yv, Enze; Lv, Xin
Ink Symphony: A “Zhi Yin” Narrative from Calligraphy to Music in VR fullSHE, Weijiang; ZHU, Xiaolin; MENG, Xiangze; ZHANG, Kang; WANG, Zeyu; YIP, David
It Happened Tomorrow: Re-situating Archival Water Images Across Participatory Climate Fiction, Video, and Geo-Exploration shortDe Gaetano, Carlo; Xu, Dan
Against the Grain Re-architecting Traditional Myths through Point-Cloud Heritage and Interactive VR shortChen, Donghao; Jiang, Yuyang; HUI, Pan
Visualizing Cross-Cultural Contexts: An AI-Assisted Archaeological Knowledge-to-Narrative Translation Model for Digital Heritage posterZheng, Yuanyue

Wednesday 4 November 2026

09:00–10:20 | Wenjin Hall A | Art Paper

A3 AI Cinema and Performance

From Policy Landscapes to Screenplay-Driven Futures: An integrative GenAI Workflow for Neo-Lingnan Narratives in the Greater Bay Area fullLiu, Siyuan; Fu, Zheyu; Hu, Xiaoyan; Qiang, Han; Shi, Tianzuo; Yip, David
From Image Generation to World Generation-A Paradigm Shift in Narrative Creation for AI-Generative Theatre fullcheng, kevin; lan, xinyi
Embodied Synthetic Cinema: Motion Capture, Virtual Production, and Generative Imagery Anchored in Human Performance shortLI, Yuelu; WU, Haoyu; QIANG, Han; YIP, David
From Alignment to Erasure: The Making and Meaning of IKHNOS (Trace Field), an AI Speculative Documentary shortLiu, Shuai
In The In-Between AI Generative Anomalies in Moving Images posterZheng, Qi; Wang, Lei
Co-Storytellers: An AI-Mediated Practice for Participatory Documentary Storytelling posterLiu, Siyuan; Xu, Ting; Lin, Sibo; Wan, Cho Yiu; Yip, David

10:40–12:00 | Wenjin Hall A | Art Paper

A4 Algorithmic Aesthetics

Negative Shanshui: Staging Environmental Reflection through AI-Generated Ruptured Landscapes in the Anthropocene fullZhou, Aven-Le
EmojiEncoder: Co-Creating Visual Narratives as Living Digital Cultural Memory fullWANG, Lin; LIU, Jiayu
Creative Exploration of RAG Embedding Space shortXu, Dan
The Interface Still Responds: How Algorithms and Contexts Reshape the Meaning of Digital Symbols shortZhang, Ziyao; Li, Jingyi
Forced Ugliness: Why a “Pathetic” ScribbleWent Viral posterjia, yizhen
The Loaded Die: A Speculative Design Approach to Constructing Algorithms as Non-Human Actors posterXiong, Xinyu; Jianheng, Xiang