Interactional Co-Creativity of Human and AI in Analogy-Based Design

Abstract

The locus of co-creativity in human-AI creative tasks has not been resolved. We explore a sub-part of this problem through the use of analogies for reframing a conceptual design task. In our scenarios, the human proposes an analogy, and then the human and a conversational UI to a Large Language Model (LLM) collaboratively explore design features based on that analogy. In one scenario, the human asks the AI to propose the analogy. In our experiments, co-creativity occurs in the interactional shared space between human and AI.