Yawen’s research investigates how immersive technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), are reshaping visual storytelling in the fields of art and cultural heritage. Her work examines how narrative, aesthetics and interactivity intersect to create new modes of experiential engagement, in which audiences move beyond observation to inhabit historical and cultural narratives. By framing immersive mediation as both an artistic and epistemological process, she explores how VR and AR can negotiate the tension between historical accuracy and emotional resonance, enabling cultural memory to become a lived and affective experience that fosters dialogue between past and present, imagination and reality.