Puffy into a Course and IJHCI!

Grounding Pedagogical Intents in Embodied AI Teachers: A Human-Centered Framework for Designing and Evaluating Instructional Gestures is online in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

This is how I turned my Pictorial work on Puffy into teaching content for Lai Wei’s pedagogical agent gesture design course.

The initial goal of this collaboration was to disseminate my work to a wider community within and beyond Design and let more students learn about it. That ultimately helped the work come to fruition and get published in IJHCI.

I look forward to more collaborations, especially cross-disciplinary ones!

BibLaTeX

@article{wei2026grounding,
    author = {Wei, Lai and Xing, Sark Pangrui and Chow, Kenny K. N. and Wang, Stephen Jia},
    title = {Grounding Pedagogical Intents in Embodied {AI} Teachers: A Human-Centered Framework for Designing and Evaluating Instructional Gestures},
    journaltitle = {International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction},
    date = {2026-05-14},
    pages = {1--34},
    publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
    doi = {10.1080/10447318.2026.2664083},
    langid = {english},
    note = {Lai Wei and Sark Pangrui Xing contributed equally}
}