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Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Computational Artist researching in interconnectivity and complexity through Multi-Device Web Artworks.
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LLM: GUI --> LUI
2024-09-24
Language models suggest a major change in human–computer interaction: a movement from the graphical user interface, GUI, towards the language user interface, LUI.
Early computing already relied on language, but communicating through its specialised commands was difficult. Graphical interfaces provided another channel between person and machine. Meanwhile, communication between people continued to rely heavily on language, including chats embedded within visual platforms.
With more capable language models, natural language can again become an effective means of operating a computer. In many situations, describing what I want may be more direct than navigating a prescribed arrangement of controls. I see a possible gradual transition towards LUI, rather than treating graphical layout as the permanent endpoint of interface design.
The move from mouse-driven interaction towards touch offers an analogy: a different input can make certain actions feel more immediate. Voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri already expressed an investment in language-based interaction, before the capabilities of recent models.
This could also change creative software. Node-based environments became popular partly because they reduced the need to write code. If generating and revising code through a language model becomes easier than arranging a node graph, that preference could reverse.
There is a productive irony in the sequence: written code, then graphical or node-based interfaces, then a return to producing code through language. The return would not be to the same conditions that made graphical tools attractive in the first place.
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Interactive Multi-Device Web Artworks where audiences interact with surrounding screens and projections from their own mobile phones.
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Jeanyoon Choi
Jeanyoon Choi (b. 1999) is a Korean computational artist and researcher. He designs and researches multi-device web artworks that reflect the complexity of contemporary socio-technological systems, including AI, algorithmic culture, and economic structures. By interconnecting mobile devices and screens, these artworks create provocatively interactive environments. To develop their conceptual foundations, he draws on art, philosophy, and his scientific background, then uses software engineering and design to translate these ideas into interactive experiences.
He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University and an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, and is currently a PhD candidate at KAIST's Experience Design Lab (XD Lab). He has also taught Computational Design Practices in the Interaction Design Department at K-Arts (Korea National University of Arts). His work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Istanbul Digital Arts Festival, IKLECTIK London, Centre Culturel Coréen, and KAIST Art Museum. His papers have been published in the proceedings of ACM DIS and in the Leonardo journal (MIT Press), and he has served as an academic reviewer for ACM TEI, NeurIPS Creative AI, and Digital Creativity.
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