We explore the use of animated transitions between a prompt and an AI-generated response. After reviewing 800 examples of prompts and responses, we devise a taxonomy of animated transitions for multimodal text- and image-generative models. The proposed animations include translating and morphing elements of the prompt to their final location in the response; highlighting modifications such as fixed typos; overlaying structural requirements to verify them; and displaying how a model understands references. A study shows that adding animated transitions helps users review the response: participants performed 43% better at locating elements in the response; 153% better at identifying changes; and 20% better at verifying the prompt was correctly interpreted. Our work applies to all software that integrates AI and shows that well-crafted, slower animations are preferable to instant AI responses.
Affect-adaptive systems increasingly act as communicators that sense a user's emotion and respond with events meant to change it, closing an affective loop. This vision assumes both that a machine's affective messages are received and that the bodily channel it monitors carries a…
Generative AI is reshaping programming education, yet educators often infer students' AI-supported learning from classroom observations alone. This experience report presents a trio-ethnography involving two computing educators with different teaching philosophies and one undergr…
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We present Loom, a spatial transcriptomics (ST) visual computing system to support the analysis of pseudo-temporal trajectories, comparative investigation across samples and regions of interest, and the examination of spatially structured processes within local microenvironments.…
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) can be a major barrier to second language acquisition (SLA), especially in conversational contexts. With the proliferation of large language models (LLMs) throughout all areas of life, recent work suggests that interacting with LLM agents can be ins…
Explainable AI (XAI) in creative practice can be less about technocentric explanation and more about enabling artists to inspect modify and debug models as part of making Yet largescale texttoimage diffusion systems are typically presented as opaque endtoend tools limiting this k…