Dreams are sources of inspiration for artists tapping into their subconscious states, but the uncertainty of fragmented elements and difficulty of recall make it challenging to harness dream-based inspiration for creative work. Generative AI shares a similar ambiguity with dreams, producing unexpected outputs that offer reinterpretation in the creative process. It suggests GenAI may help engage...
Representing subjective experience poses a challenge for documentary practice, particularly for phenomena such as dreams that lack direct visual referents. This demo presents an AI-mediated workflow for transforming dream narratives into immersive VR scenes, in which AI generates candidate representations and human creators iteratively refine them through selection, rejection, and abstraction....
Micro-phenomenology has recently gained traction in HCI as ways of accessing embodied, lived dimensions of interaction that resist conventional qualitative capture. By foregrounding pre-reflective experience, this approach promises greater experiential precision. However, when designers and HCI researchers attempt to apply Micro-phenomenology in practice, frictions often emerge. The method was...