Denna kvalitativa studie syftar på att undersöka musikers användning av digitala verktyg för att främja det kreativa arbetet. Mer specifikt: musikproducenters användning av så kallade CST:s - Creativity Support Tools - som i någon utsträckning implementerar AI. Forskningsfrågan som behandlas är: Hur vill musiker interagera med AI för att främja det...
After the rise of direct manipulation, textual interactions have been progressively devalued in creative software. Text fields within creative software currently support limited use cases such as fine tuning of numerical values or layer naming. Following the increased popularity of programming in art and design, we believe that text field based int...
The embodiment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday use products is raising challenges and opportunities for HCI and design research, such as human understandings of AI’s functions and states, passing back and forth of control, AI ethics, and user experi-ence, among others. There has been progress in those areas, such as works on explainable...
Our goal is to help creative writers make procrastination productive. Interviews with eight creative writers highlighted two key practices: Over Criticizing, where perfectionism and negative self-appraisal demotivates them and reduces their output; and Creative Voicing, where speaking their text aloud promotes reflection and inspires new possibilit...
Co-customizations are collaborative customizations in messaging apps that all conversation members can view and change, e.g. the color of chat bubbles on Facebook Messenger. Co-customizations grant new opportunities for expressing intimacy; however, most apps offer private customizations only. To investigate how people in close relationships integr...
Advancements in creative artificial intelligence (AI) are leading to systems that can actively work together with designers in tasks such as ideation, i.e. the creation, development, and communication of ideas. In human group work, making suggestions and explaining the reasoning behind them as well as comprehending other group member’s explanations...
Creative technologies like digital fabrication led to the rise of the Maker movement, engendering grassroots innovation in education, manufacturing, and healthcare. Today, these creative technologies stand at a crossroads – despite a significant rise in participation, a deeper engagement with design and material is absent from traditional computer-...
Traditional graphic design tools emphasize the grid for structuring layout. Interviews with professional graphic designers revealed that they use surprisingly sophisticated structures that go beyond the grid, which we call graphical substrates. We present a framework to describe how designers establish graphical substrates based on properties extra...
The paper describes the design research process of a procedural content generation tool aimed at supporting creative game design processes. An author oriented approach to procedural content generation tools is used where these tools can be manipulated so as to let authors define the design space they want to explore and the design solution they wis...
One mode of creative design is for designers to draw analogies that connect the design domain (e.g., a mechanical device) to some other domain from which inspiration is drawn (e.g., a biological system). The identification and application of analogies can be supported by software tools that store, structure, present, or propose source domai...
