Jocelyn J Shen

Texterial: A Text-as-Material Interaction Paradigm for LLM-Mediated Writing

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. Current generative-AI models enable rich text operations, yet rigid, linear interfaces often mask such capabilities. We explore how the text-a…