The user's and the designer's role and the aesthetic experience of generative literature

Authors:
Vinícius Carvalho Pereira;Cristiano Maciel
Affiliations:
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso -- Cuiabá/Mato Grosso;Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso -- Cuiabá/Mato Grosso
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Generative Literature may pose a new kind of aesthetic experience that defies the most basic literary categories: instead of writer and reader, designer and user might merge both roles, working as "wreaders" that interact to generate new poems. This paper intends to analyze such aesthetic interaction and how users understand their and the designer's role in such process. As methodological procedures, we analyzed two text generators and did tests with users presented with one of these generators. As results, we could see that the texts produced by these programs are poetic to a certain extent and can promote an aesthetic interaction with the designer and poets, although the users do not feel like co-authors of such texts.