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Poetry Machines: Eliciting Designs for Interactive Writing Tools from Poets

Published: 22 June 2021 Publication History

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Improvements in natural language processing and generation have made possible new and powerful creativity support tools for creative writers. However, it remains unclear how professional writers themselves might want to integrate technology into their existing writing practices. In this work we ran an elicitation study, asking 14 professional poets to consider how they would make use of computation in the context of a custom, interactive writing interface or “Poetry Machine.” We found that the poets desired a wide range of functions, from presenting auditory responses to deleting random words. We also found that many poets did not simply report what their ideal interface would do but rather contextualized their designs by describing why they are artistically meaningful, sometimes with respect to specific literary influences and traditions. We present an initial analysis of the elicitation study and observe some differences between the Poetry Machine designs and existing creativity support tools. This study lays the groundwork for a second phase where we will build a selection of the machines and study how the poets use them over time.

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C&C '21: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition
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  1. creative writing
  2. creativity support tools
  3. interactive writing tools
  4. natural language processing
  5. poetry

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  • (2024)A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing AssistantsProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642697(1-35)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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