[HELP REQUESTED] Input on Mapping Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces
angie...@york.ac.uk
We’d like your help with a new research project at the University of York’s Digital Creativity Labs. We are trying to map the field of Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces (MICI), systems that allow for the collaboration of humans and artificial intelligence in creative production.
You would help us immeasurably by completing this four-question survey. It shouldn’t take more than four minutes.
What are MICIs?
We define MICIs as systems for the production of creative work like games, film, writing, music, fashion, design, or visual art that 'put human and computer in a tight interactive loop where each suggests, produces, evaluates, modifies, and selects creative outputs in response to the other.’
For more explanation, see our paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112515/
Your help and insight will be vital in the success of our research project and the future of MICI research.
Thank you!
Sebastian Deterding, Jonathan Hook, Angie Spoto, Natalia Oleynik
c.guckelsberger
Hi Angie and others!
That's a very nice paper. In fact, the participants of the co-creation workshop at ICCC'17 have been working on similar questions with the broader focus of co-creation. I'm a bit confused by the focus on "interfaces" in the title and abbreviation, and the shift towards "systems" in the definition. Depending on whether you want to work on interfaces alone or the entire system, you might have missed two interesting references:
-D. Novick and S. Sutton. What is mixed-initiative interaction? In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction, 1997.
-Yannakakis, G. N., & Alexopoulos, C. (2014). Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity. Proceedings on the Founation of Digital Games 2014.
The latter defines mixed-initiative (computational creativity) systems (!) implicitly, and it would be interesting to see why / how your definition improves on that:
"This paper identifies mixed-initiative co-creation (MI-CC) as the task of creating artifacts via the interaction of a human initiative and a computational initiative. Although mixed-initiative lacks a concrete definition [22], MI-CC in this paper considers both the human and the com- puter proactively making contributions to the problem solution, although the two initiatives do not need to contribute to the same degree. MI-CC thus differs from other forms of co-creation, such as the collaboration of multiple human cre- ators or the interaction between a human and non-proactive computer support tools (e.g. spell-checkers or image editors) or non-computer support tools (e.g. artboards or idea cards)."
When it comes to systems, I think we could benefit a lot from a taxonomy relating different notions in this space to the higher-order concepts of mixed-initiative creativity, co-creativity and distributed computational creativity. In other words, can metacreative systems, mixed initiative systems, live algorithms and collaborative AI for artistic tasks be considered mixed-initiative co-creative systems, and under which circumstances for instance? If this is your goal, then it's definitely worth pursuing! We have made a similar but very brief comparison between co-creative and social creativity systems based on some core features in: Guckelsberger, C., Salge, C., Saunders, R., & Colton, S. (2016). Supportive and Antagonistic Behaviour in Distributed Computational Creativity via Coupled Empowerment Maximisation. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (pp. 9–16).
Finally, I'd like to point out that our Ollie Bown is writing on a very much related book section, so it might be good to get in touch!
Done your survey, looking forward to the crowd-sourced results!
All the best,
Christian
angie...@york.ac.uk
angie...@york.ac.uk
Thank you for taking the time to complete our Mapping MICIs survey and share your thoughts about the field.
A lot has happened since we first sent out the survey, and we wanted to share with you how your input has impacted the project.
We conducted a systematic literature review and created a Library for Mixed-Initiative Creative Interfaces. Gathering systems from your survey responses, the International Conference on Computational Creativity proceedings and the AMC, IEEE and Scopus databases, we identified 74 MICIs.
By 2018, along with our supervisors Sebastian Deterding and Jon Hook, we hope to have a written literature review based on our findings. We’d also like to expand the website to allow for public contributions of MICIs, so the library can keep growing.
If you’d like to stay up-to-date with our project, suggest more MICIs, or continue the conversation with us, please sign up for our MICI Google Group.
Thanks for making the project a success!
On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 08:40:24 UTC+1, Christian Guckelsberger wrote:
