Brett A. Halperin

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Reflective AI: A Slow Technology Approach for Design Education

The proliferation of efficiency-focused AI tools in creative processes threatens to undermine critical, reflective practices foundational to design education. This approach can lead to creativity exhaustion and diminished agency among designers and students. As an antidote, we propose Reflective AI: an approach ground…

CHI '251st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Underground AI? Critical Approaches to Generative Cinema through Amateur Filmmaking

Amateurism (e.g., hobbyist and do-it-yourself making) has long helped human-computer interaction (HCI) scholars map alternatives to status quo technology developments, cultures, and practices. Following the 2023 Hollywood film worker strikes, many scholars, artists, and activists alike have called for alternative appr…

CHI '251st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

From Camera-Eye to AI: Exploring the Interplay of Cinematography and Computational Visual Storytelling

While much prior work on computational visual storytelling analyzes image content, it largely overlooks formal elements. This raises the question: how might particular cinematographic techniques shape a system's interpretation and narration of imagery? To investigate this question, we generate 60 responses from a Visi…

DIS '241st AuthorHonorable MentionAugmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) +2

Resistive Threads: Electronic Streetwear as Social Movement Material

Informed by legacies of textile activism, we design Resistive Threads as a wearable probe to investigate potential roles and trajectories of electronic streetwear in US urban social movements. Resistive Threads is an interactive denim jacket that refashions the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's (Dis)location Black Exodu…

DIS '241st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Artificial Dreams: Surreal Visual Storytelling as Inquiry Into AI 'Hallucination'

What does it mean for stochastic artificial intelligence (AI) to “hallucinate” when performing a literary task as open-ended as creative visual storytelling? In this paper, we investigate AI “hallucination” by stress-testing a visual storytelling algorithm with different visual and textual inputs designed to probe dre…

DIS '231st AuthorDesign Fiction

Miracle Machine in the Making: Soulful Speculation with Kabbalah

What does it mean to design for a miracle—an ineffable phenomenon that might just exist in the world, but might also transcend it? Focusing on an esoteric strand of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah, we draw from speculative interview activities with 11 Jewish creative interlocutors to describe a process of de…

DIS '231st AuthorData Storytelling +2

Temporal Tensions in Digital Story Mapping for Housing Justice: Rethinking Time and Technology in Community-Based Design

In this paper, we explore temporal and technological conjunctures of community-based design responsiveness based upon our experiences of making an interactive digital story map amid housing crises. Through reflexive ethnographic work with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, we trace three intertwined genres of temporal…

CHI '231st AuthorBest PaperConversational Chatbots +1

Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity

Despite the central role that stories play in social movement-building, they are difficult to sustainably document for many reasons. To explore this challenge, this paper describes the design of a community-based conversational storytelling agent (CSA) to document digital stories of housing insecurity. Building on ins…

CHI '232nd AuthorUniversal & Inclusive Design +1

What is in the Cards: Exploring Uses, Patterns, and Trends in Design Cards

Card-based design tools–design cards–increasingly present opportunities to support practitioners. However, the breadth and depth of the design card landscape remain underexplored. In this work, we surveyed 103 design practitioners to assess current usages and associated barriers. Additionally, we analyzed and classifi…

CHI '231st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology

In this paper, we collect an anthology of 100 visual stories from authors who participated in our systematic creative process of improvised story-building based on image sequences. Following close reading and thematic analysis of our anthology, we present five themes that characterize the variations found in this crea…

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