Empowering a Creative City: Engage Citizens in Creating Street Art through Human-AI Collaboration
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A "creative city" can promote creativity among its citizens and provide them fulfilling lived experience. Such a concept has captivated city authorities worldwide, and motivated plenty of works to investigate how to make our cities more "creative". We argue that there is a need and an opportunity to design interactive technologies to push the creative city agenda. In this paper, we present WeMonet, a design prototype supporting citizens engaging in participatory street art creation via human-AI collaboration. Citizens' sketches are synthesized, enhanced to be more vivid through machine machine learning algorithms, and projected on a screen, forming a participatory artwork. WeMonet aims to promote citizens' engagement in creative practices and hence the city's creativity. More broadly speaking, we hope this work could inspire designers to consider the role of interaction design in the creative city agenda.
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- Authors
- Li, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Greuter, S., & Mueller, F. '.
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- Monash University (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Deakin University (AU)
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- Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- ACM
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- 2020-04-25
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- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 5
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Digital Media and Visual Art
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Public Spaces through Art
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Technology, and Culture
- Keywords
- creative city, human-AI collaboration, citizen participation, interactive technology design, urban creativity
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