Unlocking Creator-AI Synergy: Challenges, Requirements, and Design Opportunities in AI-Powered Short-Form Video Production

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Unlocking Creator-AI Synergy: Challenges, Requirements, and Design Opportunities in AI-Powered Short-Form Video Production

Document Information

• Subject Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Short-Form Video Content Creation, Design Research
• Keywords: Short-Form Video Content Creation, Human-AI Collaboration, Algorithm Experience, Creators, Creative Economy, Participatory Design

Research Background and Issues

• Challenges Identified by Authors:

  • Short-form video creators face numerous challenges during content production, including selecting materials, rapidly forming ideas, and optimizing video quality.
  • Existing algorithms and tools have limitations in supporting the unique needs of short-form video creators, such as understanding creative intent and reflecting creators’ individuality.
  • Creators lack trust in interactions with AI tools, perceiving that AI fails to capture the emotional essence and channel characteristics of their work.

• Significance:

  • Short-form videos are a crucial component of the creative economy, profoundly enriching cultural expression and communication methods.
  • AI intervention has the potential to enhance creators’ productivity and creativity, but it is essential to strike a balance to avoid diluting creators’ identities or causing negative impacts.

• Motivation and Related Work:

  • Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) indicates that moderate AI intervention can enhance human capabilities, self-efficacy, and productivity.
  • However, studies on designing AI tools to support short-form video creators remain scarce.
  • This study aims to explore how AI can act as a collaborator for creators, effectively supporting the content production process.

Solution

• Research Methods:

  • Semi-structured interviews: Conducted with 17 short-form video creators to analyze their creative processes and challenges.
  • Participatory design workshops: Involving 12 creators to collaboratively design solutions and identify the potential of AI tools in short-form video creation.

• Innovative Aspects of the Solution:

  • Offering AI design opportunities to support creators’ production processes, such as trend-based idea generation, simplified recording, and optimized editing.
  • Emphasizing the coordination between creators’ identities and unique styles with content trends, avoiding identity dilution.
  • Developing interaction design resources, such as AI capability cards and AI prototype editing tools, enabling creators to intuitively understand and envision AI usage scenarios.

• Implementation Steps and Key Technologies:

  1. Categorizing creators into three types: participatory performers, knowledge sharers, and highlight capturers.
  2. Proposing specific design solutions, such as “AI editing tools that preserve creators’ unique identities” and “AI script generators that understand the appeal of short video introductions.”
  3. Providing prototype tools to demonstrate AI’s capabilities in automated scene selection and editing, comparing results with traditional manual editing.

Research Outcomes

• Specific Findings:

  • Identified four stages in the short-form video production process: planning, shooting, editing, uploading, and management.
  • Proposed multiple AI design opportunities to improve creators’ experiences, such as rapid content suggestions, emotional AI voice generation, and template sharing.
  • Generated AI solutions from the creators’ perspectives through participatory design, enhancing user-centeredness in the design process.

• Advantages and Experimental Results:

  • Experiments showed that AI editing tools performed comparably to professional editors in terms of editing completeness and user engagement, demonstrating potential to save creators time and effort.
  • Participatory design workshops helped creators understand AI capabilities and propose design suggestions, effectively bridging the gap between technology and user needs.

• Limitations and Future Directions:

  • The study sample was limited to creators in South Korea, lacking a global perspective.
  • Participants were primarily creators with some familiarity with AI; future research should design materials suitable for users with limited technological awareness.
  • The rapidly evolving short-form video ecosystem may introduce new creator types and challenges, requiring dynamic updates to research and solutions.

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