Yuqian Sun
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sunyuqianthu(at)gmail(dot)com




I’m Yuqian Sun, an AI artist and researcher. I’m currently a doctoral student at the Royal College of Art. I’m also a crypto artist on SuperRare, the top NFT platform.

My main interest is in AI Narratives, particularly in from of chatbots with persona and stories. How will story context influence players’ perception, including emotional engagement and interest, towards AI agents? Through conversational agents, I aim to create "live" narrative experiences that can happen beyond games and in our daily lives. I explore this topic through chatbots in communities, games, and expanded art projects.

My works and research presented at galleries and conferences including SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery, Foundation of Digital Games(FDG) , ISEA, ACM Multimedia, BBA Gallery Berlin, Seoul Media Facade, Shanghai Aiiiii Art Center and New York Times Square. My work is also shortlisted on 2022 Lumen Prize.

Publications
(All available at my Research Gate page)

Sun, Y., Xu, Y., Cheng, C., Li, Y., Lee, C. H., & Asadipour, A. (2023). Explore the Future Earth with Wander 2.0: AI Chatbot Driven By Knowledge-base Story Generation and Text-to-image Model. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23) (pp. 450-455). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583931

Y. Sun, X. Ni, H. Feng, R. LC., Lee, C. H. Lee and A. Asadipour, “Bringing Stories to Life in 1001 Nights: A Co-creative Text Adventure Game Using a Story Generation Model”, International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_42

Y. Sun, Y. Xu, C. Cheng, Y. Li, C. H. Lee and A. Asadipour, "Travel with Wander in the Metaverse: An AI chatbot to Visit the Future Earth," 2022 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MMSP55362.2022.9950031

Y. Sun, C. Cheng, Y. Xu, Y. Li, C. H. Lee and A. Asadipour. 2022. "Wander: An AI-driven Chatbot to Visit the Future Earth". Interactive art at 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '22) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503161.3549971




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