Team: Aidan Z. Fitzsimons

Using large language models is the new sliced bread––but what are the “right” ways to use AI for writing support? We study how to develop co-writing tools to support authentic reflective and personal narrative writing without sacrificing individual voice, creativity, and cognitive process to help coach students and creative professionals through self-concept development. We also use the development of these tools as a petri dish to study behavioral dynamics in multi-stakeholder participatory design with community partners and empirically defining co-creative AI use as tools versus agents. Our team is interested in related legal considerations of authorship in copyright and intellectual property law and legal conceptions of harm and liability applied to stakeholder involvement in technology design, and applying HCI theory to new legal questions posed by AI.

Aidan Z Fitzsimons, Elizabeth Gerber, and Duri Long. 2024. Overcoming challenges to personal narrative co-writing with AI: A participatory design approach for under-resourced high school students. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 23–25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3690712.3690719 

Aidan Z Fitzsimons. 2024. Overcoming challenges to personal narrative co-writing with AI: A participatory design approach for under-resourced high school students and those that support them. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 17–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3635636.3664625