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Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand has been a long-standing challenge. With the rise of advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Antoine Bosselut , Lonneke van der Plas

A key objective in artificial intelligence (AI) development is to create systems that match or surpass human creativity. Although current AI models perform well across diverse creative tasks, it remains unclear whether these achievements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Man Zhang , Ying Li , Yang Peng , Yijia Sun , Wenxin Guo , Huiqing Hu , Shi Chen , Qingbai Zhao

Generative AI has greatly transformed creative work in various domains, such as screenwriting. To understand this transformation, prior research often focused on capturing a snapshot of human-AI co-creation practice at a specific moment,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yuying Tang , Jiayi Zhou , Haotian Li , Xing Xie , Xiaojuan Ma , Huamin Qu

Design is a non-linear, reflective process in which practitioners engage with visual, semantic, and other expressive materials to explore, iterate, and refine ideas. As Generative AI (GenAI) becomes integrated into professional design…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xiaohan Peng , Wendy E. Mackay , Janin Koch

Generative AI, i.e., the group of technologies that automatically generate visual or written content based on text prompts, has undergone a leap in complexity and become widely available within just a few years. Such technologies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Nanna Inie , Jeanette Falk , Steven Tanimoto

More-than-human design challenges anthropocentric assumptions by foregrounding non-human entities as stakeholders, yet designers face an epistemic boundary: they cannot directly access non-human experience. We present an exploratory study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aung Pyae

Studies of Generative AI (GenAI)-assisted creative workflows have focused on individuals overcoming challenges of prompting to produce what they envisioned. When designers work in teams, how do collaboration and prompting influence each…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuanning Han , Ziyi Qiu , Jiale Cheng , RAY LC

As generative AI tools become integrated into design workflows, students increasingly engage with these tools not just as aids, but as collaborators. This study analyzes reflections from 33 student teams in an HCI design course to examine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Suchismita Naik , Prakash Shukla , Ike Obi , Jessica Backus , Nancy Rasche , Paul Parsons

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) technologies have transformed the computer science discipline of natural language processing. However, generative AI retains the anthropomorphic model of simulating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dejan Grba , Vladimir Todorović

Many generative AI systems as well as decision-support systems (DSSs) provide operators with predictions or recommendations. Various studies show, however, that people can mistakenly adopt the erroneous results presented by those systems.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Simon WS Fischer , Hanna Schraffenberger , Serge Thill , Pim Haselager

Creativity is a deeply debated topic, as this concept is arguably quintessential to our humanity. Across different epochs, it has been infused with an extensive variety of meanings relevant to that era. Along these, the evolution of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Philippe Esling , Ninon Devis

Generative AI is increasingly transforming creativity into a hybrid human-artificial process, but its impact on the quality and diversity of creative output remains unclear. We study collective creativity using a controlled word-guessing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chenyi Li , Raja Marjieh , Haoyu Hu , Mark Steyvers , Katherine M. Collins , Ilia Sucholutsky , Nori Jacoby

Generative AI has democratized content creation, but popular chatbot-based interfaces often prioritize execution, generating fully rendered artifacts right away. This issue can lead to premature convergence and design fixation, where users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chao Wen , Tung Phung , Pronita Mehrotra , Sumit Gulwani , Roger E. Beaty , Tomohiro Nagashima , Adish Singla

Large language models have advanced rapidly, from pattern recognition to emerging forms of reasoning, yet they remain confined to linguistic simulation rather than grounded understanding. They can produce fluent outputs that resemble…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Rikard Rosenbacke , Carl Rosenbacke , Victor Rosenbacke , Martin McKee

Creativity in artificial intelligence is most often addressed through evaluative frameworks that aim to measure novelty, diversity, or usefulness in generated outputs. While such approaches have provided valuable insights into the behavior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Corina Chutaux

Robots are moving beyond industrial settings into creative, educational, and public environments where interaction is open-ended and improvisational. Yet much of human-AI-robot interaction remains framed around performance and efficiency,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jordan Aiko Deja , Isidro Butaslac , Nicko Reginio Caluya , Maheshya Weerasinghe

Generative, ML-driven interactive systems have the potential to change how people interact with computers in creative processes - turning tools into co-creators. However, it is still unclear how we might achieve effective human-AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Frederic Gmeiner , Kenneth Holstein , Nikolas Martelaro

Reflection is widely recognized as a cornerstone of student development, fostering critical thinking, self-regulation, and deep conceptual understanding. Traditionally, reflective skills have been cultivated through structured feedback,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bo Yuan , Jiazi Hu

Computational creativity is a subfield of AI focused on developing and studying creative systems. Few academic studies analysing the behaviour of creative agents from a theoretical viewpoint have been proposed. The proposed frameworks are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Valerio Velardo , Mauro Vallati

With the growing prevalence of generative artificial intelligence (AI), an increasing amount of content is no longer exclusively generated by humans but by generative AI models with human guidance. This shift presents notable challenges for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yueqi Xie , Tao Qi , Jingwei Yi , Xiyuan Yang , Ryan Whalen , Junming Huang , Qian Ding , Yu Xie , Xing Xie , Fangzhao Wu