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Midjourney Storytelling Lab

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About Our Lab

We're a small group of researchers at Midjourney building expressive, approachable, and controllable tools for AI-supported storytelling. Current lab projects focus on collaborative worldbuilding, comics generation, and new interaction techniques for steering the generation of story text.

Recent work by lab members has been published at HCI and AI conferences including CHI, UIST, IUI, C&C, and ACL.

Lab Members

Max Kreminski

Max Kreminski

Research Scientist and Director

John Joon Young Chung

John Joon Young Chung

Research Scientist

Melissa Roemmele

Melissa Roemmele

Research Scientist

Uchan Sun

Uchan Sun

Research Artist

Taewook Kim

Taewook Kim

Visiting Researcher
(Spring-Summer 2024)

Alex Calderwood

Alex Calderwood

Visiting Researcher
(Summer-Fall 2024)

Selected Projects

Patchwork Patchwork (animated)

Patchwork

A collaborative, AI-supported infinite canvas for creating fictional worlds.

Related Publications
Toyteller: AI-Powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols Toyteller: AI-Powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols (animated)

Toyteller: AI-Powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols

A novel AI-based interface for playful storytelling: users steer the generation of story text by physically acting out a scene with abstract shapes, as if playing with toys.

Drama Llama: An LLM-Powered Storylets Framework for Authorable Responsiveness in Interactive Narrative

Drama Llama: An LLM-Powered Storylets Framework for Authorable Responsiveness in Interactive Narrative

An LLM-powered storylets framework that supports the authoring of responsive, open-ended interactive stories.

Patchview: LLM-Powered Worldbuilding with Generative Dust and Magnet Visualization Patchview: LLM-Powered Worldbuilding with Generative Dust and Magnet Visualization (animated)

Patchview: LLM-Powered Worldbuilding with Generative Dust and Magnet Visualization

A customizable LLM-powered system that visually aids worldbuilding by allowing users to interact with story concepts and elements through the physical metaphor of magnets and dust.

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

A research addressing the fragmentation across writing assistant technologies by developing a structured design space through systematic review across five key dimensions: task, user, technology, interaction, and ecosystem.