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Empowering a Creative City: Engage Citizens in Creating Street Art through Human-AI Collaboration

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Stefan Greuter,

Florian 'Floyd' MuellerAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382976

Published: 25 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

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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Empowering a Creative City: Engage Citizens in Creating Street Art through Human-AI Collaboration
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design

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CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3334480

General Chairs:
Regina Bernhaupt
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
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Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Monash University, Australia
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David Verweij
Newcastle University, UK
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Josh Andres
RMIT, Australia
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Joanna McGrenere
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Andy Cockburn
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
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Alix Goguey
Grenoble Alpes University, France
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Pernille Bjørn
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Shengdong (Shen) Zhao
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Briane Paul Samson
Future University Hakodate, Japan & De La Salle University, Philippines
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Rafal Kocielnik
University of Washington, USA

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