Understanding and Evaluating the User Interface Design for Creative Writing

Abstract

Recent decades brought us technological advances which have been able to significantly improve the writing activity. Everyone writes, and everyone has a wide variety of creative writing tools for that. In this paper, we present a study with 23 user experiences and interviews, regarding four different writing environments in a within-subject design. We obtained a deep understanding of which tool promotes higher levels of satisfaction and creativity during the process of creative writing. First, we compared the creative writing Dimensions (Serendipity, Haven, Evolution and Shuffle), combined with the Technology Acceptance Model dimensions. Through distinct evaluation methods, we discuss the results about how the usage of different creative writing environments can produce results that allow a better understanding of the user interface design process for users.