WenFan Wang
I am currently a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA HCI Lab and a graduate student at National Taiwan University focusing on tools that enhance creativity for designers and artists. Previously I worked as a technical artist and lead at Moonshine Animation developing real-time graphics solutions.
News
- 📝✨ July 2025: Paper “GenTune” accepted to UIST’25.
- 🧑🔬🏫 June 2025: Began as Visiting Scholar at UCLA HCI Lab.
- 🏆🎮 May 2025: “Wandering Spirit” won First Place in CHI’25 Student Game Competition.
- 🎮🎉 February 2025: “Wandering Spirit” accepted to CHI’25 Student Game Competition.
- 🤖🎉 January 2025: Paper “AIdeation” accepted to CHI’25.
Selected Publications
GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Published:
UIST ‘25 full paper on traceable prompts for image refinement in environment design.
Recommended citation: WenFan Wang, et al. (2025). "GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design." UIST 2025.
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AIdeation: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Ideation System for Concept Designers Permalink
Published:
CHI `25 full paper on collaborative ideation system.
Recommended citation: WenFan Wang, et al. (2025). "AIdeation: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Ideation System for Concept Designers." CHI 2025.
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Wandering Spirit: Exploring Cooperative Mixed-Reality Gameplay with Shared Physical Props Permalink
Published:
CHI Student Game Competition best paper.
Recommended citation: WenFan Wang, et al. (2025). "Wandering Spirit: Exploring Cooperative Mixed-Reality Gameplay with Shared Physical Props." CHI EA 2025 Student Game Competition.
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Experience
- Visiting Scholar in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (2025–present)
- M.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University (2023–present)
- Unreal Engine Technical Lead, Moonshine Animation (2022)
- Unreal Engine Technical Artist, Moonshine Animation (2020–2021)
- B.S. in Psychology, National Taiwan University (2014–2018)
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