Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio
In the Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio, we conduct research surrounding AI literacy and human-AI interaction. Our research looks to how humans interact and learn as a way of informing the design of public AI literacy interventions as well as the development of AI that can interact naturally and improvise creatively with people in complex social environments. We design and build interactive, embodied learning experiences for spaces like museums and public libraries to broaden public understanding of AI, and we explore how to design and develop AI that can co-create with people.
Research Areas & Projects
Designing learning experiences, human-centered AI, explainable AI, creativity, performance and technology, AI literacy, computer science education, informal learning, and embodied interaction.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Zhang, R., & Long, D. (2025, January). Beyond content: Leaning on the poetics of defamiliarization in design fictions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(1), 1–19. Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award.
Conference Proceedings
- Bhat, M., & Long, D. (2025, October). Emotional Plausibility vs. Emotional Truth: Designing Against Affective Misinformation in Conversational AI. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 430-444).
- Fitzsimons, A.Z., Gerber, E., and Long, D. (2025, June). AI constructs gendered struggle narratives: Implications for self-concept and systems design. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, (pp. 2290-2301). https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732156
- Fitzsimons, A.Z., Gerber, E., and Long, D. (2025, June). Pressure to use AI for college admissions: implications for adolescent self-concept and intelligent coaching design. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition, (pp. 975-987). https://doi.org/10.1145/3698061.3726909
- Lin, L., Im, J. J., & Long, D. (2025, July). Beyond the Prompt: Community-Oriented Futures for Creative GenAI. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1941-1960).
- Bhat, M., & Long, D. (2024, July). Designing Interactive Explainable AI Tools for Algorithmic Literacy and Transparency. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 939-957).
- Belghith, Y., Mahdavi Goloujeh, A., Magerko, B., Long, D., Mcklin, T., & Roberts, J. (2024, May). Testing, Socializing, Exploring: Characterizing Middle Schoolers’ Approaches to and Conceptions of ChatGPT. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1–17).
- Trajkova, M., Long, D., Deshpande, M., Knowlton, A., & Magerko, B. (2024, May). Exploring Collaborative Movement Improvisation Towards the Design of LuminAI—a Co-Creative AI Dance Partner. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1–22).
Late-Breaking and Work-in-Progress
- Darabipourshiraz, H., Bhat, M., & Long, D. (2025, April). Introducing AI without computers: Hands-on literacy and ethical sense-making for young learners. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25) (pp. 1–11).
- Li, C., & Long, D. (2025, April). Understanding journalistic practices surrounding AI: Towards the design of support resources for journalists to foster public AI literacy. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25) (pp. 1–9).
Workshops
- Long, D., Roberts, J., Magerko, B., Holstein, K., DiPaola, D., & Martin, F. (2023, April). AI Literacy: Finding Common Threads between Education, Design, Policy, and Explainability. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).
Demos, Posters, Case Studies
- Darabipourshiraz, H., Ambani, D., & Long, D. (2024, June). DataBites: An embodied and co-creative museum exhibit to foster children’s understanding of supervised machine learning. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 550-555).
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Rollins, S., Hancock, K., Ali-Diaz, J., Shahdadpuri, N., & Long, D. (2024, June). Knowledge Net: Fostering Children’s Understanding of Knowledge Representations Through Creative Making and Embodied Interaction in a Museum Exhibit. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 470-475).
- Trajkova, M., Deshpande, M., Knowlton, A., Monden, C., Long, D., & Magerko, B. (2023, July). AI Meets Holographic Pepper’s Ghost: A Co-Creative Public Dance Experience. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (pp. 274–278).
- Lin, L., & Long, D. (2023, June). Generative AI Futures: A Speculative Design Exploration. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 380-383).
- Long, D., Rollins, S., Ali-Diaz, J., Hancock, K., Nuonsinoeun, S., Roberts, J., & Magerko, B. (2023, June). Fostering AI Literacy with Embodiment & Creativity: From Activity Boxes to Museum Exhibits. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 727-731).
- Long, D. (2023, April). Conducting Remote Design Research on Embodied, Collaborative Museum Exhibits. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8). Honorable Mention for Best Case Study.
Doctoral Consortia
- Darabipourshiraz, H. (2025, June). AI DoodleLab: Fostering Middle School Students’ AI Literacy through Project-Based Creative Drawing. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 64-68).
- Bhat, M. (2024, June). Creative Explainable AI Tools to Understand Algorithmic Decision-Making. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 10-16).
- de Blanc, M. (2024, June). Every Body Dance Now: What Dancers with Disabilities Can Teach HCI. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 8–9).
- Fitzsimons, A. (2024, June). Overcoming challenges to personal narrative co-writing with AI: A participatory design approach for under-resourced high school students and those that support them. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 17-20).
Other Scholarly Publications
- Richard Zhang and Duri Long. Reflecting through Strange AI. In Proceedings of the Explainable AI for the Arts Workshop (XAIxArts) at ACM Creativity & Cognition.
- Kristin Fasiang and Duri Long. Large Language MadLibs. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-25). [Model Assignment].
- Taewook Kim and Duri Long. Transforming Language to Improve Human Communication. ACM CSCW 2024 Workshop on Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology.
- Aidan Z. Fitzsimons, Elizabeth M. Gerber, and Duri Long. Overcoming challenges to personal narrative co-writing with AI: A participatory design approach for under- resourced high school students. In Proceedings of the In2Writing workshop at the 2024 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
- Bichelmeir, L. & Long, D. (2024, April). Centering Personal Identity in Embodied AI Literacy Activities. In Symposium “Integrating AI Education in K-12 Humanities Curricula: Opportunities, Challenges, Design Considerations, and Promising Solutions,” American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.
- Kafai, Y. B., Proctor, C., Cai, S., Castro, F., Delaney, V., DesPortes, K., Hoadley, C., Lee, V. R., Long, D., Magerko, B., Roberts, J., Shapiro, B. R., Tseng, T., Zhong, V., & Rosé, C. P. (2024). What Does it Mean to be Literate in the Time of AI? Different Perspectives on Learning and Teaching AI Literacies in K-12 Education. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 1856-1862).
- Lee, V. & Long, D. (2024, April). “AI literacy: Definitions and directions for an essential new digital literacy.” Poster in Advancing Digital Literacies Research Through Critical Collaborative Conversations. Symposium accepted to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.
- Morales-Navarro, L., Kafai, Y. B., Castro, F., Payne, W., DesPortes, K., DiPaola, D., … & Vakil, S. (2023). Making Sense of Machine Learning: Integrating Youth’s Conceptual, Creative, and Critical Understandings of AI. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2023. International Society of the Learning Sciences.
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