Keep the creator in control.
The team examined a vlogger creating a short soundtrack without music-production experience. Self-Determination Theory connected assistance to autonomy and competence: the creator still needs meaningful choices.
11 / Flow Music
Creative help.
Creative agency.
Analyze human–AI music co-creation through motivation, workflow, and social context.
- My contribution
- Team contributor. Collaborative HCI theory analysis.
- Team context
- Three-person UW team.
- Stage
- Academic product analysis
- Delivered
- Analytical poster and video presentation.
Co-creation lens / reconstructed
- CreatorGoals and meaningful control.
- ToolsAI suggestions and feedback.
- WorkflowThinking across interactions.
- CommunityNorms and wider consequences.
An analytical framework for an existing product, not a new music-generation system.
Key decisions.
Study the whole workflow.
Distributed Cognition helped us examine thinking across the person, interface, generated music, and feedback. The focus extended beyond a single prompt or output.
Consider the consequences.
Activity Theory connected creative goals to community norms, roles, and responsibilities. This brought questions of fairness and cultural impact into the product analysis.
Outcome & next step.
A shared framework for discussing creative control and the wider implications of generative music tools.