Midjourney Storytelling Lab
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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, DIS, COLM, and ACL.
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Visiting Researcher
(Summer 2025)
Visiting Researcher
(Summer 2025)
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(Summer 2025)
Visiting Researcher
(Spring-Summer 2024)
Visiting Researcher
(Summer-Fall 2024)
A collaborative, AI-supported infinite canvas for creating fictional worlds.
📄 IUI HAI-GEN paper
Language model post-training techniques for enhancing diversity while maintaining quality in creative writing.
An AI-powered artistic material writing support interface that helps experimental poets search for words and phrases.
A means of automatically tracing and analyzing creative moves via a “fuzzy” computational model of semantic similarity.
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.
An LLM-powered storylets framework that supports the authoring of responsive, open-ended interactive stories.
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 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.