Casual Creators: Serious AI Support for Casual Creativity

In recent years we have seen a flourishing of apps for “casual” creativity, fun and explorative creativity rather than task-completion. Creativity apps to make pottery, music, and Mario levels are bringing creativity to audiences outside of professional creative workers, but making this move requires new design patterns and best practices. Kate Compton will present some of her favorite new patterns that make these apps successful, and demonstrates them with new interactive prototypes.

Kate Compton is a long-time generative artist and programmer. She wrote the first paper on procedural platformer levels, generated the planets for Spore, and developed the language Tracery, and is now a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz developing artificial intelligence to augment human creativity.