Designing Co-Creative AI for Public Spaces
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly pervasive in our everyday lives. There are consequently many common misconceptions about what AI is, what it is capable of, and how it works. Compounding the issue, opportunities to learn about AI are often limited to audiences who already have access to and knowledge about technology. Increasing access to AI in public spaces has the potential to broaden public AI literacy, and experiences involving co-creative (i.e. collaboratively creative) AI are particularly well-suited for engaging a broad range of participants. This paper explores how to design co-creative AI for public interaction spaces, drawing both on existing literature and our own experiences designing co-creative AI for public venues. It presents a set of design principles that can aid others in the development of co-creative AI for public spaces as well as guide future research agendas.
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Long et al. (2019) engaged citizens in co-creating AI amenities in public spaces to broaden their public AI literacy and experiences.
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- Authors
- Long, D., Jacob, M., & Magerko, B.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-06-13
- Pages
- 271-284
- OpenAlex
- W2951146358
- Cited by
- 70
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 4.18
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Creativity and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Technology, and Culture
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Digital Media and Visual Art
- Keywords
- public space, AI design principles, collaborative creativity, misconceptions about AI
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