Empowering a creative city: engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration

Zhuying Li; Yan Wang; Wei Wang; Stefan Greuter; Florian Floyd Mueller

doi:10.1145/3334480.3382976

Empowering a creative city: engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration

Zhuying Li, Yan Wang, Wei Wang, Stefan Greuter, Florian Floyd Mueller

Department of Human Centred Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Joanna McGrenere, Andy Cockburn
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382976
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 - Honolulu , United States of America Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 Conference number: 38th https://chi2020.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3313831 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	CHI 2020
Country	United States of America
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20
Internet address	https://chi2020.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3313831 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Civic engagement
Creative city
Design
Machine learning
Participatory art

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10.1145/3334480.3382976

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Li, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Greuter, S., & Mueller, F. F. (2020). Empowering a creative city: engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration. In J. McGrenere, & A. Cockburn (Eds.), CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [3382976] Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382976

Li, Zhuying ; Wang, Yan ; Wang, Wei ; Greuter, Stefan ; Mueller, Florian Floyd. / Empowering a creative city : engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration. CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Joanna McGrenere ; Andy Cockburn. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020.

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Li, Z, Wang, Y, Wang, W, Greuter, S & Mueller, FF 2020, Empowering a creative city: engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration. in J McGrenere & A Cockburn (eds), CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3382976, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020, Honolulu , United States of America, 25/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382976

Empowering a creative city : engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration. / Li, Zhuying; Wang, Yan; Wang, Wei; Greuter, Stefan; Mueller, Florian Floyd.

CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Joanna McGrenere; Andy Cockburn. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. 3382976.

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Li Z, Wang Y, Wang W, Greuter S, Mueller FF. Empowering a creative city: engage citizens in creating street art through human-AI collaboration. In McGrenere J, Cockburn A, editors, CHI'20 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. 3382976 https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382976