Objective Portrait: A practice-based inquiry to explore Al as a reflective design partner

Vera van der Burg; Gijs de Boer; Amila Akdag Salah; Senthil Chandrasegaran; Peter Lloyd

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Objective Portrait: A practice-based inquiry to explore Al as a reflective design partner

Vera van der Burg, Gijs de Boer, Amila Akdag Salah, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being viewed as a creative partner rather than as a tool. How to design such collaborations is still a subject of speculation. In this pictorial, we propose a collaborative role for AI to prompt self-reflection. We explore this through a practice-based inquiry of whether and how AI could help a designer reflect on and relate to their own work. Three designers annotate a collection of images representing their fascinations, with subjective labels, indicating different dimensions of their visual concepts. These labels are used to teach an object detection model the designers’ perspectives. Then, they used this trained model on their own design work to evaluate the AI's potential to prompt self-reflection. By describing this process of AI-training we explore how an AI can help us become aware of our own implicit perspectives.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS' 23 Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Editors	D. Byrne, N. Martelaro
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	387–400
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-9893-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595974
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23) - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 10 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023

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Conference	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	10/07/23 → 14/07/23

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van der Burg, V, de Boer, G, Akdag Salah, A, Chandrasegaran, S & Lloyd, P 2023, Objective Portrait: A practice-based inquiry to explore Al as a reflective design partner. in D Byrne & N Martelaro (eds), DIS' 23 Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, New York, pp. 387–400, 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS'23), Pittsburgh, United States, 10/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595974

Objective Portrait: A practice-based inquiry to explore Al as a reflective design partner. / van der Burg, Vera; de Boer, Gijs; Akdag Salah, Amila et al.
DIS' 23 Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ed. / D. Byrne; N. Martelaro. New York: ACM, 2023. p. 387–400.

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