Expressing Authentic Voice within Co-Creative AI Partnerships:: Insights from Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Alison Pease; Tom Griffiths

Expressing Authentic Voice within Co-Creative AI Partnerships: Insights from Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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A key aspect of a rich creative partnership is that each participant can express themselves meaningfully and feels a sense of shared ownership over the outcome. This sense that an artefact has been created intentionally and reflects something important about who the creator is and what they wish to communicate is referred to here as the authentic voice. In today's culture of prompt-driven creation and semi-passive consumption of AI outputs this is a frequently overlooked dimension of human–AI co-creation.

This work is the result of a collaboration between two academics in the Department of Computing at University of Dundee – one with expertise in CC, and the other with a background in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). In our bridging paper, we draw on insights from AAC to suggest how this essential aspect of meaningful co-creative relationships might be addressed within a CC context.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2026
Event	17th International Conference on Computational Creativity - University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Duration: 29 Jun 2026 → 3 Jul 2026 Conference number: 17 https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Computational Creativity
Abbreviated title	ICCC'26
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Coimbra
Period	29/06/26 → 3/07/26
Internet address	https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Authentic Voice
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Creativity
Authenticity
Authorship
Computational Creativity
Disability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Speech and Hearing

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Expressing Authentic Voice within Co-Creative AI Partnerships: Insights from Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Pease, A. & Griffiths, T., 17 Jun 2026, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Creativity. Oliveira, H. G., Kantosalo, A., Toivonen, H., Machado, P. & Alves, A. (eds.). Association for Computational Creativity (ACC), 5 p.
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Expressing Authentic Voice within Co-Creative AI Partnerships: Insights from Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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