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Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Many human-AI authoring tools are used in a playful way, while being primarily designed for task-achievement—not playfulness. We argue that playfulness is an important yet overlooked factor of user behaviour and experience when interacting with such tools. Motivating and rewarding playfulness as an exploratory, task-agnostic, open, and subversive attitude can support the satisfaction of more diverse user goals, and have a strong, positive effect on the user experience, the emerging human-AI interaction, and the resulting artefact. In this paper, we motivate the importance of playfulness as user experience in human-AI authoring tools, and propose concrete strategies to design for playfulness in the human user through UI design, in the AI through algorithms, or through interventions to their dialog. We conclude with an outlook of the research agenda.

Source: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)

DOI: 10.1145/3582437.3587192

Authors: Antonios Liapis, Christian Guckelsberger, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova, Jeremy Gow, Mike Preuss

Institutions: University of Malta, Aalto University, IT University of Copenhagen, Northeastern University, Masaryk University, University of York, Queen Mary University of London, Leiden University

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4363651340

FWCI: 2.691

Cites: 19

Cited by: 14

Related to: 10