7 papers
Live Artifacts: Authoring Dynamic Media via Live Layers Encapsulating Generative Specifications
Leixian Shen, Haotian Li, Hugo Romat +3
We frame Live Artifacts as a class of persistent generative media between static assets and interactive software. Unlike conventional generative outputs that collapse into static f…
Large Language Lovers: Lived Experiences of Negotiating Agency and Platform Control in AI Companionship
Patrick Yung Kang Lee, Jessica Y. Bo, Zixin Zhao +6
Individuals are turning to increasingly anthropomorphic, general-purpose chatbots for AI companionship, rather than roleplay-specific platforms. However, not much is known about ho…
FaceValue: Exploring Real-Time Self-View Overlays to Prompt Meaning-Oriented Self-Awareness in Remote Meetings
Gun Woo Warren Park, Anthony Tang, Fanny Chevalier
In remote video meetings, visual non-verbal cues, such as facial expressions or head movements, are seen continuously but often only partially. This increases ambiguity compared to…
Texterial: A Text-as-Material Interaction Paradigm for LLM-Mediated Writing
Jocelyn Shen, Nicolai Marquardt, Hugo Romat +3
What if text could be sculpted and refined like clay -- or cultivated and pruned like a plant? Texterial reimagines text as a material that users can grow, sculpt, and transform. C…
Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations of Stories
Damien Masson, Zixin Zhao, Fanny Chevalier
We define "visual story-writing" as using visual representations of story elements to support writing and revising narrative texts. To demonstrate this approach, we developed a tex…
Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer's Needs
Zixin Zhao, Damien Masson, Young-Ho Kim +2
This work sheds light on whether and how creative writers' needs are met by existing research and commercial writing support tools (WST). We conducted a need finding study to gain…