Meeting at Crossroads: An exploration of playful listening through a co-creative AI game
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Several participants noted that they would set parameters or input prompts and then step back to see what the AI produced, engaging in what can be described as "playing" with the tool.
“Several participants noted that they would set parameters or input prompts and then step back to see what the AI produced, engaging in what can be described as “playing” with the tool (Chien et al. 2024; Lee et al. 2025; Matthews et al. 2024).”
From Generative AI in Game Design: Enhancing Creativity or Constraining Innovation? (2025) · cites this paper as Lee et al. 2025
Section 3.1 describes players submitting words that are combined into an AI image, and section 5.1 reports their surprise and enjoyment when the image appeared. The paper does not report several participants saying they set parameters and then stepped back; players contributed descriptions and discussed the resulting images together. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Lee, C., Dimitrakopoulou, D., & Roy, D.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
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- Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- ACM
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- 2025-04-25
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- 1-11
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- W4409719867
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- 3
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- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1
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- 3.07
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- en
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Music Technology and Sound Studies
- Keywords
- human-AI interaction, listening, co-creation, game design
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