Painting with Bob: Assisted creativity for novices

Luca Benedetti; Holger Winnemöller; Massimiliano Corsini; Roberto Scopigno

doi:10.1145/2642918.2647415

Painting with Bob: Assisted creativity for novices

Luca Benedetti, Holger Winnemöller, Massimiliano Corsini, Roberto Scopigno

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Abstract

Current digital painting tools are primarily targeted at professionals and are often overwhelmingly complex for use by novices. At the same time, simpler tools may not invoke the user creatively, or are limited to plain styles that lack visual sophistication. There are many people who are not art professionals, yet would like to partake in digital creative expression. Challenges and rewards for novices differ greatly from those for professionals. In this paper, we leverage existing works in Creativity and Creativity Support Tools (CST) to formulate design goals specifically for digital art creation tools for novices. We implemented these goals within a digital painting system, called Painting with Bob. We evaluate the efficacy of the design and our prototype with a user study, and we find that users are highly satisfied with the user experience, as well as the paintings created with our system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	419-428
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450330695
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647415
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014 - Honolulu, UK United Kingdom Duration: 5 Oct 2014 → 8 Oct 2014

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Conference	27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014
Country/Territory	UK United Kingdom
City	Honolulu
Period	5/10/14 → 8/10/14

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Creativity
Novices
Painting

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Painting with Bob: Assisted creativity for novices. / Benedetti, Luca; Winnemöller, Holger; Corsini, Massimiliano et al.
UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 419-428.

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Benedetti, L, Winnemöller, H, Corsini, M & Scopigno, R 2014, Painting with Bob: Assisted creativity for novices. in UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 419-428, 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014, Honolulu, UK United Kingdom, 5/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647415

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