Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools

Antonios Liapis; Christian Guckelsberger; Jichen Zhu; Casper Harteveld; Simone Kriglstein; Alena Denisova; Jeremy Gow; Mike Preuss

doi:10.1145/3582437.3587192

Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools

Antonios Liapis, Christian Guckelsberger, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova, Jeremy Gow, Mike Preuss

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Abstract

Many human-AI authoring tools are used in a playful way, while being primarily designed for task-achievement - not playfulness. We argue that playfulness is an important yet overlooked factor of user behaviour and experience when interacting with such tools. Motivating and rewarding playfulness as an exploratory, task-agnostic, open, and subversive attitude can support the satisfaction of more diverse user goals, and have a strong, positive effect on the user experience, the emerging human-AI interaction, and the resulting artefact. In this paper, we motivate the importance of playfulness as user experience in human-AI authoring tools, and propose concrete strategies to design for playfulness in the human user through UI design, in the AI through algorithms, or through interventions to their dialog. We conclude with an outlook of the research agenda.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2023
Editors	Phil Lopes, Filipe Luz, Antonios Liapis, Henrik Engstrom
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1–4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9856-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3582437.3587192
Publication status	Published - 12 Apr 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 11 Apr 2023 → 14 Apr 2023 Conference number: 18

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Conference	International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Abbreviated title	FDG
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	11/04/2023 → 14/04/2023

Keywords

creativity support
mixed-initiative co-creativity
play
playfulness

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Liapis, A., Guckelsberger, C., Zhu, J., Harteveld, C., Kriglstein, S., Denisova, A., Gow, J., & Preuss, M. (2023). Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools. In P. Lopes, F. Luz, A. Liapis, & H. Engstrom (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2023 (pp. 1–4). Article 75 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3582437.3587192

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Liapis, A, Guckelsberger, C, Zhu, J, Harteveld, C, Kriglstein, S, Denisova, A, Gow, J & Preuss, M 2023, Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools. in P Lopes, F Luz, A Liapis & H Engstrom (eds), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2023., 75, ACM, pp. 1–4, International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Lisbon, Portugal, 11/04/2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3582437.3587192

Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools. / Liapis, Antonios; Guckelsberger, Christian; Zhu, Jichen et al.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2023. ed. / Phil Lopes; Filipe Luz; Antonios Liapis; Henrik Engstrom. ACM, 2023. p. 1–4 75.

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