Call for Critical and Speculative Design in Human-Computer Co-creativity: An Overview Study

Paper i proceeding, 2023

The recent boom of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine

learning (ML) has demonstrated their potential to impact

human-computer interaction (HCI) in general and human-

computer co-creativity in particular. Therefore, we want to

provide a systematic literature overview of computational co-

creativity research so far. In total, 916 articles from Sco-

pus and Web of Science databases were pulled. Bibliometric

analysis of their abstracts and a Latent Dirichlet Allocation

(LDA) topic modeling on their full text was conducted to re-

veal what is covered in the previous academic discussions on

human-computer co-creativity. The results of these analyses

demonstrate that current research mostly focuses on technol-

ogy, overlooking the role of design. Accordingly, we call

for more design-oriented research to develop a more com-

prehensive understanding of human-computer co-creativity,

especially from critical and speculative design perspectives.