Human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds

di Milano, Italy, Politecnico; Serbanescu, Anca

Abstract

This paper explores the human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds (NWs) through active human-machine collaboration. It proposes a hypothesis of structuring a narrative world for the AI system, working on the gap between the main disciplines of Design Studies and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Through the lens of the creative collaboration between humans and AI, this paper finds the emerging field of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) that stands in the abovementioned gap. Creativity has long been considered unique to humans, but in this contribution, creativity is considered in collaboration with an AI entity. The AI system becomes a tool for designers, in this case, a collaboration tool, to find novel ideas to write stories, accelerating the storytelling process. This contribution proposes a method to explore the influences of AI systems on human creativity within the design process of creating stories. The study begins with a review of the literature on the meaning of creativity as perceived through the collaborative activity of human and AI systems. The topic of interest is related to the process of story construction, the phase of crafting narrativity, through which it is possible to find creative ideas for narrative world-building. The aim is to explore the AI system's computational creativity potential as a supporting tool for the designer in world-building.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design
• Start Date: Oct 9, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Oct 31, 2023
• Publication Date: Oct 9, 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 31, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 31, 2025
• Journal: IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.293