Research talk "Artistic Vision: Interactive Computational Guidance for Developing Expertise"

Computer scientists have long worked towards the vision of human-AI collaboration for augmenting human capabilities and intellect. My work contributes to this vision by asking: How can computational tools not only help a user complete a task but also help them develop their own domain expertise while doing so? Dr. Jane E investigates this question by designing new interactive tools for domains of artistic creativity. Her work is inspired by the fact that expert artists have trained their eyes to “see” in ways that embed their expert domain knowledge—in this case, core artistic concepts. As instructors, experts have also designed approaches to intentionally communicate their vision to their students. Her work designs creativity tools that leverage these expert structures to help novices develop this expert-like "artistic vision"—specifically through providing guidance to scaffold their design processes. In this talk, Dr. Jane E will demonstrate her approach for designing tools that embed such guidance for photography and visual design that embed the underlying design principles. She will show that these tools are able to scaffold novices’ to be more aware of these artistic concepts during their creative process.