Explaining the Arts: Toward a Framework for Matching Creative Tasks with Appropriate Explanation Mediums

TL;DR

This paper proposes a framework to help designers select appropriate explanation mediums for creative tasks, emphasizing interaction modalities like auditory, tactile, and olfactory, beyond traditional textual or visual explanations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework for matching explanation mediums with creative tasks, addressing a gap in supporting designers with diverse interaction modalities.

Findings

Framework aids designers in selecting explanation mediums.

Highlights importance of non-traditional interaction modalities.

Enhances understanding of explainability in creative arts contexts.

Abstract

Although explainable computational creativity seeks to create and sustain computational models of creativity that foster a collaboratively creative process through explainability, there remains little to no work in supporting designers when exploring the explanation medium. While explainable artificial intelligence methods tend to support textual, visual, and numerical explanations, within the arts, interaction mediums such as auditorial, tactile, and olfactoral may offer more salient communication within the creative process itself. Through this research, I propose a framework to assist designers of explainable user interfaces in modeling the type of interaction they wish to create using explanations.