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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

6/6 Bonus finding: participants who were more intrinsically motivated also felt substantially more ownership over their stories. Exploratorily, the prompting × editing effect was strongest at lower intrinsic motivation and attenuated as intrinsic motivation increased.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

5/ Key finding #2: every AI-assisted workflow still produced significantly & substantially lower ownership than writing without AI, even when participants could iteratively prompt and edit. With AI writing tools, one-shot delegation can be particularly harmful when ownership matters.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

3/ Key finding #1 = an interaction: editing strongly increased ownership after single-prompt generation (Δ = 0.89), but much less after iterative prompting (Δ = 0.27). Iterative prompting thus supported psychological ownership mainly when editing was unavailable.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2/ We ran a preregistered experiment (N = 273) in which participants wrote short creative stories either (A) entirely without AI, or with (B) AI using single-prompt vs iterative prompting, crossed with (C) whether they could directly edit the generated text afterwards. We evaluate A+BxC.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1/ When does AI-assisted writing still feel like _your_ writing? How do interaction choices matter? Our new study @aalto.fi @csaalto.bsky.social examines how 2 everyday choices, iterative prompting and direct editing, shape psychological ownership of AI-assisted writing: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

2-year postdoc to work on Autotelic Creative AI (ACAI): an opportunity for theoretical research on the foundations of creativity in AI and living beings (e.g. agency, autonomy, value grounding) + time to work on your own ideas fitting with the group's interests. DL: 11.9. bit.ly/4hEpIZz

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

(1/3) Join us in discussing AI's impact on how digital games can be designed, produced, experienced, and studied! Applications to our hybrid CHIPLAY26 workshop "Envisioning and Co-Creating GenAI for Future Creative Workers in Gaming" now open / DL Sep 21, 2026! sites.google.com/view/chiplay...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Are you a junior researcher (Master's+) working on #computationalcreativity? I'm organising the Early Career Symposium (ECS) at ICCC2016 - join us to present and discuss your projects and career questions. DL for extended abstract: May 15th. More info: computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/early...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

(3/) Existing qualitative studies suggest that GenAI’s strongest value is upstream: ideation and exploratory prototyping, not end-to-end authorship. Across studies, the shared conclusion is that systems broaden option spaces but humans still frame, judge, and steer what becomes “the work”.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

(2/) A consistent finding across the corpus is that human-in-the-loop refinement is the production norm. Generative outputs behave like provisional artefacts: teams iterate, curate, correct, and integrate, and prompting becomes progressive specification work rather than a one-shot query.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

(1/) Accepted to CHI’26: 1st qualitative research synthesis on the impact of GenAI - here on game development (2020-25). Core contributions: meta-ethnography integrating 10 studies -> 9 themes + industry context + recommendations for practice, research & governance. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.11898

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Jobs! The Autotelic Interaction Research Group is looking for (1) creative practitioners and (2) theory researchers to work on "Autotelic Creative Artificial Intelligence" (ACAI): (1) PhD in Creative Practices (2+2 years): lnkd.in/dPBG47rM (2) Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years): lnkd.in/dMisM_bf

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

(4/) The story gets interesting with individual differences: Amongst others, AI literacy moderated the effect with lower literacy -> process tended to lower creativity ratings; higher literacy -> process tended to raise them.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

(3/) Prolific participants were UK census-representative (N=298+295). The headline Study 1 result: process visibility did NOT increase perceived creativity on average. Study 2 sought to “help” the process animation by adding a tutorial on diffusion: still no tutorial/PE/interaction effects!

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

(1/) Does visualizing an AI’s image generation process make people judge it as more “creative”? Our ACM IUI'26 paper shows that the "who" of the observer can matter more than what the interface reveals. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

3/5 More specifically, we demonstrate that modifying the SO model learning parameters gives rise to four different regimes that can account for both creative products and inconclusive outcomes, thus providing a framework for studying and understanding the creative potential of learning systems.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

2/5 Developed to model complex adaptive systems in ALife and advocated as a candidate for minimal agency, the Self-Optimization (SO) model can be considered as the 3rd operational mode of the classical Hopfield Network, leveraging the power of associative memory to enhance optimization performance.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

1/5 Now in Artificial Life: our research on the creativity of unsupervised learning! Core finding: a simple model of attractor networks with Hebbian learning is sufficient to constitute a (minimal) creative process, yielding creative products as solutions of the optimization. doi.org/10.1162/ARTL...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

4/4 Locally, we're part of a rich AI research ecosystem, including the Finnish Center of AI (FCAI), Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) @icthiit.bsky.social and the Finnish @ellis.eu institute, a world-class research hub in AI and machine learning.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

1/5 🌟 Our latest peer-reviewed research bridges psychology and AI/reinforcement learning (RL)! We explore how AI models of intrinsic motivation can formalise the "need for competence" in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a very popular theory of human motivation. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07423.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

2/3 We compared two drawing robots, a mechanical plotter and an anthropomorphized arm, creating the same still-life drawings. Surprisingly, differences in robot embodiment did not affect creativity ratings. But seeing the art being made, and what makes it, boosted how creative people perceived them.

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

1/3 Out now: new paper on people's perception of AI (robot) creativity! Core finding: we attribute more creativity to a creative act if people not only see the final artwork, but also its creation process & the robot making it. Video: vimeo.com/1073134853 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1145/3711...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

(1/3) This week at #neurips2024: our work on "Diversity Progress” (DP) to improve unsupervised skill learning. Meet authors Erik Lintunen & Nadia Ady at the Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning (IMOL) workshop: Sun 15th, 8:15+, West Meeting Room 217–219. Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=nz9...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m in Melbourne, visiting @jon-mcc.bsky.social at Sensilab / @monashuniversity.bsky.social (+ escaping Finnish winter!). I’ll be around for 2 more weeks-> email if you fancy a chat! A super fresh overview talk, covering 6 recent projects on #creativity #AI #HCI: sensilab.monash.edu/forums/three...

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hello back! :) I gave my mental health a break from social media and made time for my wonderful daughter, who has added an entire new dimension to my experience of life, which I'm so grateful for. Expect me to be rather quiet, and post mostly about fresh research, conferences and jobs.

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