<Lanxi Xiao 肖岚茜

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Exploring Interaction and Visualization

at the Boundaries of AI × Art & Design

Lanxi Xiao 肖岚茜

⭐ Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, supervised by Professor Qiong Wu

⭐ New Media Artist

⭐ TEDx Speaker

⭐ Co-organizer and Reviewer of the XAI×Arts Workshop at ACM Creativity & Cognition

⭐ Outstanding Undergraduate and Master's Graduate of Tsinghua University

En. 中.

Future Digital Identities Series

A series of interactive AI art installations. Using digital humans, LLMs, and AIGC as materials, these works explore speculative experiences of digital identity in the future online world.

Representative Work

Mirrorverse — Mirrorverse

#InteractiveArt #AIGC #SpeculativeArt

Creating a universe of mirrored selves using AIGC and large language models.

Human Prime: Ethical Reflections on Future Cyber Identities — Human′: Ethical Reflections on Future Cyber Identities

#AI #Ethics #SpeculativeDesign

Exploring digital identity and ethics when personal data gains autonomy.

14

Exhibitions

6

Awards

The 6th Art and Science International Exhibition International Convention and Exhibition Center China National Communication Center for Science and Technology China National Exhibition and Convention Center ChinaGraph Beijing Science and Technology Week Beijing Design Week …

5

Commercial Collaborations

3

Papers

A&HCI Leonardo

EI HCII

CSSCI Zhuangshi (装饰)

Special Topics · Exploring XAI Interaction

Enhancing public understanding of AI principles through interactive visualization and promoting explainability in human-AI interaction.

Special Topics

AI为何犯错 — Why AI Fails: Parallax

#XAI #Visualization #Interaction

Helps the public intuitively and engagingly understand the causes of AI misclassification, bridging the technical divide and fostering deeper understanding of human-AI collaboration.

Time–Space Knowledge Map — Time–Space Knowledge Map of Discipline Development

#LLM #Visualization #Interaction

Uses AI to build a knowledge graph of 20 years of academic achievements in the Information Art & Design Department, enabling dialog-based exploration of academic threads.

intel数字人 — Intel Virtual Human Interface Design

#ExplainableAI #Visualization #Interaction #Virtual Human

Designs a hybrid user interface for digital humans combining visualizations, GUI, and NUI to enhance controllability.

Publications

Publications

Leonardo2025 — Leonardo & Zhuangshi(装饰) 2025

Human′ and ConversationN

Exploring Mirrored Human-AI Identities Through Dialogue Installations

Lanxi Xiao, Jing Wang, Yan Dong, Qiong Wu.

HCII 2023
Ethical Reflection on Identity of AI Digital Avatars
Lanxi Xiao, Qiong Wu.

Why AI Fails: Parallax — ACM C&C 2023

Why AI Fails: Parallax

Lanxi Xiao, Weikai Yang, Haoze Wang, Shixia Liu, Qiong Wu.

Relationship Between Design and Computation — HCII 2023

From Auxiliary Design Tools to Intelligent Collaborative Partners

The Transformation of the Relationship Between Design and Computation

Lanxi Xiao, Qiong Wu.

数字身份的建构与设计 — Zhuangshi(装饰) 2025

Construction and Design of Digital Identities

数字身份的建构与设计

Qiong Wu(吴琼), Yi Huang(黄轶), Lanxi Xiao(肖岚茜).

RouteFlow — CHI 2025 Best Paper

RouteFlow

Trajectory-Aware Animated Transitions

Duan Li, Xinyuan Guo, Xinhuan Shu, Lanxi Xiao, Lingyun Yu, Shixia Liu.

IEEE TVCG 2024 — IEEE TVCG 2024 Honorable Mention

Dynamic Color Assignment for Hierarchical Data

Jiashu Chen, Weikai Yang, Zelin Jia, Lanxi Xiao, Shixia Liu.

Diagnosing Ensemble Few-Shot Classifiers — IEEE TVCG 2022

Diagnosing Ensemble Few-Shot Classifiers

Weikai Yang, Xi Ye, Xingxing Zhang, Lanxi Xiao, Jiazhi Xia, Zhongyuan Wang, Jun Zhu, Hanspeter Pfister, Shixia Liu.

ACM C&C 2024 — ACM C&C 2024

Explainable AI for the Arts 2 (XAIxArts2)

Nick Bryan-Kinns, Corey Ford, Lanxi Xiao et.al.

CHI 2024 — CHI 2024

Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook

Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Lanxi Xiao et.al.

IEEE VR 2025 — IEEE VR XR Art Gallery 2025

Emotion Synthesizer

An lmmersive XR Art Installation Integrating Real and Virtual Emotions

Rui Zhang, Yan Dong, Lanxi Xiao, Qiong Wu.

Design Practice

Design Practice

2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Gala Show Ice Projection Project — Ice Surface Projection Design for the Gala Show of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Figure Skating Performance

#ProjectionArt #AI #VisualAnalytics

A performance integrating winter sports, art, culture, and technology, powered by 3DAT intelligent technology.

⭐2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Ministry of Education Project Image — Ministry of Education National Education Science Decision Support System Phase II Construction Interactive Interface Design Project

#DataViz #InteractiveScreen

Covering national education resource maps and hundreds of thousands of precise school data points, constructing a real-time interaction-driven multi-level visual intelligent decision-making system.

🔒Confidential Project

Intel Virtual Human Interface Design — Intel GTC Tech Experience Center Digital Human Dialogue Interface Design

#XAI #UIDesign #DigitalHuman

Designing a hybrid user interface for digital humans that integrates visualization, GUI, and NUI to enhance controllability.

Time–Space Knowledge Map — Time–Space Knowledge Map of Discipline Development in the Information Art & Design Department, Tsinghua Academy of Arts & Design

#LLM #UIDesign #KnowledgeGraph

Utilizing AI technology to construct a knowledge graph of 20 years of academic achievements in the Information Art & Design Department, enabling dialogue-based retrieval of academic research trajectories.

Cloud-based Student Tsinghua: Phase 1 Design of Tsinghua Student Data Dashboard — Cloud-based Student Tsinghua: Phase 1 Design of Tsinghua Student Data Dashboard

#MiniProgram #SmartCampus #AIChatbot

How to use AI and the five levels of experience design model to enhance user experience?

Tsinghua University Outstanding Alumni Web Design Project — Blossom of Cercis: Web Design Proposal for 1,000 Outstanding Tsinghua Alumni

#DataViz #WebDesign

A web design project showcasing Tsinghua University\'s outstanding alumni.

⭐Special Design Tribute for the 20th National Congress

Nature Medicine May 2024 Issue Cover Design Project — Nature Medicine May 2024 Issue Cover Design Project

#Nature #CoverDesign

Communicating the theme of heatwave fatalities through abstract visuals to raise public awareness of climate and health issues.

China Telecom Project Image — China Telecom Year-End Event Interactive Interface Design Project

#AIGC #MiniProgram

Integrating AIGC, data visualization, and traditional culture to create a personalized festive interactive experience, enhancing brand influence and user emotional connection.

Siemens Simulation Platform Interface Design — Siemens Simulation Platform Interface Design

#DigitalTwin #SmartFactory #UIDesign

Tsinghua University 110th Anniversary Official Website Mobile Blessing Page Design — Tsinghua University 110th Anniversary Official Website Mobile Blessing Page Design

#WebDesign #Anniversary

Online blessing page breaking spatial limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic for the university anniversary.

CCTV Digital Snowflake Interactive Project — 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics "Digital Snowflake" Interactive Project Design Proposal

#AI #GenerativeDesign #Olympics

Personalized digital snowflake image based on artificial intelligence.

⭐2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

National Natural Science Foundation of China Discipline Tree Visualization Project — National Natural Science Foundation of China Discipline Tree Visualization Project

#DataViz #AIViz #Algorithm

National Smart Education Public Service Platform Homepage Design Project — National Smart Education Public Service Platform Homepage Design Project

#WebDesign #GovPlatform

Balancing design needs for smart education, red-themed government style, and youthful appeal.

⭐Special Design Tribute for the 20th National Congress

New Chinese Embassy in the UK Interior Information Design Project — New Chinese Embassy in the UK Interior Design Project Proposal

#InteractiveInstallation #DesignProposal #Embassy

Interactive popular science exhibition proposal for the Black Death cemetery site.

Tsinghua University Department of Hydraulic Engineering Yangtze River Aquatic Ecosystem Integrity Degradation and Restoration Mechanism Visualization Design — Yangtze River Aquatic Ecosystem Integrity Degradation and Restoration Mechanism Visualization Design

#DataViz #Ecology

Collaborative project for the National Key R&D Program application by Professor Hongwei Fang\'s research group, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University.

Tsinghua University Internet Research Institute Project Image — Tsinghua University Internet Research Institute Risk Monitoring Vulnerability Interactive Interface Design Project

#DataViz #Dashboard #UIDesign

Huawei Consistency Design Exploration Co-creation Project — Huawei Consistency Design Exploration Co-creation Project

#Consistency #UIResearch #Huawei

Research and analyze industry views and practices on design consistency, analyze Huawei\'s design consistency and provide recommendations.

Siemens Digital Enterprise Solutions Information Visualization — Siemens Digital Enterprise Solutions Information Visualization

#AIViz #DigitalTwin #SmartFactory

Creative AI Joint-Lab Official Website — Creative AI Joint-Lab Official Website

#WebDesign #Lab

Art Practice

Art Practice

Mirrorverse — Mirrorverse

#InteractiveArt #AIGC #SpeculativeArt

Creating a universe of mirrored selves using AIGC and large language models.

⭐The 6th Art and Science International Exhibition

Human′: Ethical Reflections on Future Cyber Identities — Human′: Ethical Reflections on Future Cyber Identities

#AI #Ethics #SpeculativeDesign

Exploring digital identity and ethics when personal data gains autonomy.

⭐Grand Prize, 2022 Beijing University Student Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition

Why AI Fails: Parallax — Why AI Fails: Parallax

#ExplainableAI #Visualization #Interaction #TrackScreen

Helps the public intuitively and engagingly understand the causes of AI misclassification, bridging the technical divide and fostering deeper understanding of human-AI collaboration.

⭐ACM Creativity & Cognition 2023

Beijing Time Map — Beijing Time Map

#DataViz #3DPrinting #FutureCity

When time transcends physical distance to become a more significant scale for perceiving urban space, how will future cities be reconfigured?

⭐2021 Beijing Science and Technology Week

PLASTIC, PLEASE — "PLASTIC, PLEASE"

#Sustainability #Ethics

When the world is filled with non-degradable plastic pollution, what will you and the world become?

⭐2019 Stanford University Human Cities Expo

Memories of Li Jianguo — Memories of Li Jianguo

#DigitalHeritage #CulturalPreservation

Opening grandpa\'s memoirs, those past scenes seem to appear before your eyes.

⭐Outstanding Coursework, Tsinghua Academy of Arts & Design

Facing Fear — Facing Fear

#NewMediaArt #InteractiveInstallation

Under the illumination of light, fear has nowhere to hide.

⭐Infinity Boundary - "Visual, Auditory, and Tactile" Interactive Works Exhibition

Monte — Monte

#Animation

A Music Video

Reading of Life — Reading of Life

#CodeArt #Processing

Code art themed on "Time".

Speech & Media

Speech & Media

TEDxTHU Speech — TEDxTHU 2024

AI: The Designer's Second Self

Tsinghua Academy of Arts & Design x ByteDance Sharing Session — 2024, Tsinghua Academy of Arts & Design x ByteDance

Design Makes AI More Understandable: Information and Interaction Design to Enhance AI Explainability

Sharing Session on Human-Computer Interaction in the AI Era

Intel x Zhipu AI Everywhere Seminar — 2024, Intel x Zhipu AI

Digital Humans Reconstruct Spatial Experience

AI Everywhere Seminar

Lenovo ThinkPad AI Pioneer Party — 2023, Lenovo

When Interactive Art Meets AI

2023 ThinkPad Black FUN Ceremony & AI Pioneer Party

Awards

Awards

2025 Top 1%

CHI Best Paper Award (Team)

2024

IEEE VIS Best Paper Honorable Mention (Team)

2024

Tsinghua University Wu Guanzhong Art and Science Innovation Award (Team)

2024

Tsinghua University Excellent League Member

2023 Top 2%

Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate

2023 Top 5%

Tsinghua University Excellent Graduation Thesis

2023 Academy Collection

Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design Excellent Graduation Design

3 Times

Tsinghua University Comprehensive First-Class Scholarship (Equivalent to Comprehensive Excellence Award)

2022 Top 8%

Chinagraph 2022 Electronic Theater Outstanding Visual Effects Award, Third Prize

2022 Grand Prize

Beijing University Student Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition

2 Times

Tsinghua University Academic Excellence Award

2 Times

Tsinghua University Artistic Excellence Award

2019

National励志奖学金 (National Endeavor Scholarship)

2023

HCII 2023 Student Design Competition Finalist Award

2023

Alibaba U Design Week × NVIDIA Omniverse Metaverse Design Competition, Public Group Excellence Award

2022

Tsinghua University Class of 1986 Alumni Award Fund "Tsinghua Craftsman Competition", Exploration and Innovation Track Excellence Award

2020

Beijing Design Expo "Laurel Award" Finalist

2020

Beijing Design Expo, Young Power Special Award, Emerging Designer Finalist Award

2020

Tsinghua University Four-Star Volunteer

2019

Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management Business Intelligence Design Program Best Practice Award

2019

Tsinghua University 37th "Challenge Cup" Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, Third Prize (Team)

2019

Tsinghua University Outstanding Student Association (Team, during term as Vice President)

2018

Tsinghua University Student Social Practice Silver Award (Team)