Identifying, Explaining, and Correcting Ableist Language with AIAbleist language perpetuates harmful stereotypes and exclusion, yet its nuanced nature makes it difficult to recognize and address. Artificial intelligence could serve as a powerful ally in the fight against ableist language, offering tools that detect and suggest alternatives to biased terms. This two-part study inve…2026KSKynnedy Simone Smith et al.Carnegie Mellon UniversityHuman-LLM CollaborationAI Ethics, Fairness & AccountabilityCognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia)CHI
LogoMotion: Visually-Grounded Code Synthesis for Creating and Editing AnimationCreating animation takes time, effort, and technical expertise. To help novices with animation, we present LogoMotion, an AI code generation approach that helps users create semantically meaningful animation for logos. LogoMotion automatically generates animation code with a method called visually-grounded code synthe…2025VLVivian Liu et al.Columbia University3D Modeling & AnimationCreative Coding & Computational ArtCHI
Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators’ Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative LaborGenerative text-to-image models are disrupting the lives of creative professionals. Specifically, illustrators are threatened by models that claim to extract and reproduce their style. Yet, research on style transfer has rarely focused on their perspectives. We provided four illustrators with a model fine-tuned to the…2025JPJulien Porquet et al.University of CambridgeAI Ethics, Fairness & AccountabilityMotor Impairment Assistive Input TechnologiesInclusive DesignCHI
DynEx: Dynamic Code Synthesis with Structured Design Exploration for Accelerated Exploratory ProgrammingRecent advancements in large language models have significantly expedited the process of generating front-end code. This allows users to rapidly prototype user interfaces and ideate through code, a process known as exploratory programming. However, existing LLM code generation tools focus more on technical implement…2025JMJenny Ma et al.Columbia UniversityHuman-LLM CollaborationPrototyping & User TestingCHI
Metaphorian: Leveraging Large Language Models to Support Extended Metaphor Creation for Science WritingScience writers commonly use extended metaphors to communicate unfamiliar concepts in a more accessible way to a wider audience. However, creating metaphors for science writing is challenging even for professional writers; according to our formative study (n=6), finding inspiration and extending metaphors with coheren…2023JKJeongyeon Kim et al.Stanford UniversityGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video)AI-Assisted Creative WritingDIS
AngleKindling: Supporting Journalistic Angle Ideation with Large Language ModelsNews media often leverage documents to find ideas for stories, while being critical of the frames and narratives present. Developing angles from a document such as a press release is a cognitively taxing process, in which journalists critically examine the implicit meaning of its claims. Informed by interviews with jo…2023SPSavvas Petridis et al.Columbia UniversityHuman-LLM CollaborationAI-Assisted Creative WritingUser Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation)CHI
Social Dynamics of Human-AI Collaboration in Creative WritingRecently, large language models have made huge advances in generating coherent, creative text. While much research focuses on how users can interact with language models, less work considers the social-technical gap that this technology poses. What are the social nuances that underlie receiving support from a generati…2023KGKaty Ilonka Gero et al.Columbia UniversityHuman-LLM CollaborationAI-Assisted Creative WritingCHI
Improving Automatic Summarization for Browsing Longform Spoken DialogLongform spoken dialog delivers rich streams of informative content through podcasts, interviews, debates, and meetings. While production of this medium has grown tremendously, spoken dialog remains challenging to consume as listening is slower than reading and difficult to skim or navigate relative to text. Recent sy…2023DLDaniel Li et al.Columbia UniversityConversational ChatbotsHuman-LLM CollaborationCHI
OPAL: Multimodal Image Generation for News IllustrationsAdvances in multimodal AI have presented people with powerful ways to create images from text. Recent work has shown that text-to-image generations are able to represent a broad range of subjects and artistic styles. However, finding the right visual language for text prompts is difficult. In this paper, we address th…2022VLVivian Liu et al.Columbia UniversityGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video)AI-Assisted Creative WritingUIST
Design Guidelines for Prompt Engineering Text-to-Image Generative ModelsText-to-image generative models are a new and powerful way to generate visual artwork. However, the open-ended nature of text as interaction is double-edged; while users can input anything and have access to an infinite range of generations, they also must engage in brute-force trial and error with the text prompt whe…2022VLVivian Liu et al.Columbia UniversityGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video)CHI
Insights and Opportunities for HCI Research into Hurricane Risk CommunicationCommunicating risk to the public in the lead-up to tropical storms has the potential to significantly reduce the impacts on both livelihood and property. While significant research has been conducted in the storm risk community on how people receive, seek, and utilize risk information, given the importance of computin…2022RSRobert Soden et al.University of ColoradoCommunity Engagement & Civic TechnologySustainable HCICHI
What Makes Tweetorials Tick: How Experts Communicate Complex Topics on TwitterPeople are increasingly getting information and news from social media. On Twitter we are seeing the emergence of "tweetorials" -- long, explanatory Twitter threads written by experts. In this work we study tweetorials as a form of science writing. While scientists have begun to champion the importance of Twitter as a…2021KGKaty Ilonka Gero et al.Columbia UniversitySocial MediaCSCW
Hierarchical Summarization for Longform Spoken DialogEvery day we are surrounded by spoken dialog. This medium delivers rich diverse streams of information auditorily; however, systematically understanding dialog can often be non-trivial. Despite the pervasiveness of spoken dialog, automated speech understanding and quality information extraction remains markedly poor,…2021DLDaniel Li et al.Columbia UniversityConversational ChatbotsExplainable AI (XAI)UIST
Metaphoria: An Algorithmic Companion for Metaphor CreationCreative writing, from poetry to journalism, is at the crux of human ingenuity and social interaction. Existing creative writing support tools produce entire passages or fully formed sentences, but these approaches fail to adapt to the writer's own ideas and intentions. Instead we posit to build tools that generate id…2019KGKaty Ilonka Gero et al.Columbia UniversityHuman-LLM CollaborationAI-Assisted Creative WritingCHI