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When AI gets it “wrong” – and that’s exactly the point.

Thrilled to share that my paper Creative Ambiguity and Cognitive Tension in Generative AI Tools has been accepted for ECCE 2025. It’s about how misalignment between human intent and AI output can fuel creativity.

@au.dk #hci #creativity

Massively enjoyed this morning’s @ozchi.bsky.social keynote by Paul Dourish on what comes after #HCI.
On why #AI is not the answer (and maybe even the antithesis), and a call to consider why we have strayed from the ambitions of eg Engelbart (to augment human intellect) & Nelson (to save the world!)

Our findings show that AI-supported teams generated more ideas and achieved higher novelty but at the expense of appropriateness, revealing a trade-off in creative outcomes. AI tools were particularly useful for fostering divergent thinking during moments of creative impasse. >

In the paper, we explore how generative AI software impacts collaborative creativity, specifically idea generation. In a controlled study with our custom-made collaborative tool, 36 participants worked in pairs, with half using AI features to support sense-making, divergent and convergent thinking >

I'm in Brisbane for the OzCHi’24 conference, @ozchi-conf.bsky.social, to present the paper “Exploring the Impact of AI Features on Collaborative Creativity”, co-authored with
@jonasfrich.bsky.social, Jens Emil Grønbæk & Marcel Borowski from @aarhusuni.bsky.social.
Summary + Key points: >

Blue skies and Blue Mountains for my first Bluesky post