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Publications & Talks

Writing and speaking on cultural design.

Peer-reviewed conference papers and invited lectures on visual communication, cultural translation, Kansei research, and emerging interactive technologies.

Conference Papers

  1. 2026

    Kathryn SU, Wingly SHIH. (2026). Building an Emotional Kansei Vocabulary from Children's Drawings: Interpretation Performance and the Limits of the Vocabulary Itself.

    Accepted — 2026 Taiwan Kansei Society International Conference: From Generative AI to Kansei AI — Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Nov 21, 2026

  2. 2026

    Cai-Ting SU, Wingly SHIH. (2026). Reading Emotion from Children's Character Drawings.

    Accepted — 2026 International Conference and Workshop of the Visual Communication Design, Taiwan Institute of Kansei, and Taiwan Society of Basic Design and Art Conference — Yunlin, Taiwan · Oct 23 – 25, 2026

  3. 2026

    Wingly SHIH, Kathryn SU. (2026). Creatura Era: Multimodal Generative AI and Tangible AR for Cross-Disciplinary Design Collaboration.

    9th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2026) — Bangkok, Thailand · Aug 9 – 11, 2026 · Proceedings forthcoming in IEEE Xplore

  4. 2026

    Cai-Ting SU, Wingly SHIH. (2026). Cross-Cultural Creation in Taiwanese Wangye Worship Using an Augmented Reality Interactive Deity Creation System.

    HCI International 2026 — Montreal, Canada · July 26 – 31, 2026

  5. 2026

    Kathryn SU, Wingly SHIH. (2026). The Deity as Design System: An AR-Based Interactive Coloring System for Cross-Cultural Reinterpretation of Taiwanese Daily Life through Ukiyo-e Aesthetics.

    73rd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD), Chiba Institute of Technology — Narashino, Chiba, Japan · June 12 – 14, 2026

  6. 2025

    Cai-Ting SU, Wingly SHIH. (2025). Temple Colors and Religious Meanings of Yancheng Wuchiau Yu Sheng Temple in Tainan.

    2025 International Conference and Workshop of the Visual Communication Design, Taiwan Institute of Kansei, and Taiwan Society of Basic Design and Art Conference — Yunlin, Taiwan · Oct 17 – 19, 2025

Invited Lectures

  1. 2025.09

    Design Translation of Taiwanese Wangye Belief: From Folk Religion to Modern Visual Language

    ITS Surabaya (Indonesia) & NYUST Workshop · 200+ students