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Child-AI Co-Creation: A Review of the Current Research Landscape and a Proposal for Six Design Considerations

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into children's creative lives, designing responsible and meaningful tools for Child-AI co-creation is a growing concern in HCI and education.This paper presents a scoping review of 20 studies on Child-AI co-creation, analyzing the types of creative activities involved, the age groups studied, and the roles AI systems play.Based on this synthesis, we identify six key design considerations: protecting child data privacy, minimizing bias and hallucinations, fostering appropriate reliance on AI, balancing support and creative freedom, encouraging peer and family collaboration, and making AI's creative process understandable.This work contributes an initial framework to guide the design of child-centered and developmentally appropriate AI co-creation systems, and highlights directions for future research.

Source: ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC)

DOI: 10.1145/3713043.3731506

Authors: Zhenyao Cai, Ariel Han, Xiaofei Zhou, Eva Durall Gazulla, Kylie Peppler

Institutions: University of California, Irvine, University of Southern California, University of Rochester, University of Oulu

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4411558490

FWCI: 14.21

Cites: 59

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10