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most citedA Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

132 citations · 178 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.HC2026

Feeling Wistful: Reflecting on Scholarly Sensibilities with Creative Reading Traces

Sophia W. Liu, Kate Chier, Shm Garanganao Almeda +2

Researchers often read before they can articulate what they are looking for. As AI increasingly mediates scholarly search and synthesis, understanding and preserving the idiosyncra…

cs.DL2026

Feeling UISTful: An Interactive Portrait of Scholarly Authorship, Readership, and the In-Between

Sophia W. Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Max Kreminski +1

We introduce UISTful, a system that turns reading activity into a collective portrait of a scholarly community. Readers explore a semantic globe of UIST papers and authors while th…

cs.HC2026

Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation

Sophia Liu, Sarah Abowitz, Yijun Liu +3

Reading augmentation systems increasingly help readers process text at scale. While these tools address real constraints of time and cognitive load, they often implicitly frame rea…

cs.HC2026

Proceedings of The First Reflection in Creative Experience (RiCE) Workshop

Corey Ford, Olga Sutskova, Samuel Rhys Cox +12

Reflection and metacognition are central to the creative user experience. However, most HCI research on reflection focuses on clear, task-oriented goals such as to reflect on perso…

cs.HC2026

Design Techniques for LLM-Powered Interactive Storytelling: A Case Study of the Dramamancer System

Tiffany Wang, Yuqian Sun, Yi Wang +3

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled a new paradigm for bridging authorial intent and player agency in interactive narrative. We consider this paradigm through the…

cs.HC2026

Elsewise: Authoring Open-ended Interactive Narrative with Possibility Space Visualization

Yi Wang, John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele +6

Interactive narrative (IN) authors craft spaces of divergent narrative possibilities for players to explore, with the player's input determining which narrative possibilities they…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration

Shm Garanganao Almeda, John Joon Young Chung, Sophia Liu +4

Relating a piece to previously established works is crucial in creating and engaging with art, but AI interfaces tend to obscure such relationships, rather than helping users explo…

cs.CL2025

LiteraryTaste: A Preference Dataset for Creative Writing Personalization

John Joon Young Chung, Vishakh Padmakumar, Melissa Roemmele +7

People have different creative writing preferences, and large language models (LLMs) for these tasks can benefit from adapting to each user's preferences. However, these models are…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Behind the Scenes: Enabling Narrative Scene Illustration

Melissa Roemmele, John Joon Young Chung, Taewook Kim +3

Generative AI has established the opportunity to readily transform content from one medium to another. This capability is especially powerful for storytelling, where visual illustr…

cs.HC2025

Scaffolding Recursive Divergence and Convergence in Story Ideation

Taewook Kim, Matthew Kay, Yuqian Sun +3

Human creative ideation involves both exploration of diverse ideas (divergence) and selective synthesis of explored ideas into coherent combinations (convergence). While processes…

cs.CL2025

Modifying Large Language Model Post-Training for Diverse Creative Writing

John Joon Young Chung, Vishakh Padmakumar, Melissa Roemmele +2

As creative writing tasks do not have singular correct answers, large language models (LLMs) trained to perform these tasks should be able to generate diverse valid outputs. Howeve…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

Phraselette: A Poet's Procedural Palette

Alex Calderwood, John Joon Young Chung, Yuqian Sun +2

According to the recently introduced theory of artistic support tools, creativity support tools exert normative influences over artistic production, instantiating a normative groun…

cs.HC2025

Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces

Amy Smith, Barrett R. Anderson, Jasmine Tan Otto +5

Linkography -- the analysis of links between the design moves that make up an episode of creative ideation or design -- can be used for both visual and quantitative assessment of c…

cs.HC2025★ 11 cited

Toyteller: AI-powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols

John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele, Max Kreminski

We introduce Toyteller, an AI-powered storytelling system where users generate a mix of story text and visuals by directly manipulating character symbols like they are toy-playing.…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

Drama Llama: An LLM-Powered Storylets Framework for Authorable Responsiveness in Interactive Narrative

Yuqian Sun, Phoebe J. Wang, John Joon Young Chung +3

In this paper, we present Drama Llama, an LLM-powered storylets framework that supports the authoring of responsive, open-ended interactive stories. DL combines the structural bene…

cs.HC2024★ 29 cited

Patchview: LLM-Powered Worldbuilding with Generative Dust and Magnet Visualization

John Joon Young Chung, Max Kreminski

Large language models (LLMs) can help writers build story worlds by generating world elements, such as factions, characters, and locations. However, making sense of many generated…

cs.HC2024★ 132 cited

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung +33

In our era of rapid technological advancement, the research landscape for writing assistants has become increasingly fragmented across various research communities. We seek to addr…