  Human collaboration with systems within the Computational Creativity (CC)
field is often restricted to shallow interactions, where the creative
processes, of systems and humans alike, are carried out in isolation, without
any (or little) intervention from the user, and without any discussion about
how the unfolding decisions are taking place. Fruitful co-creation requires a
sustained ongoing interaction that can include discussions of ideas,
comparisons to previous/other works, incremental improvements and revisions,
etc. For these interactions, communication is an intrinsic factor. This means
giving a voice to CC systems and enabling two-way communication channels
between them and their users so that they can: explain their processes and
decisions, support their ideas so that these are given serious consideration by
their creative collaborators, and learn from these discussions to further
improve their creative processes. For this, we propose a set of design
principles for CC systems that aim at supporting greater co-creation and
collaboration with their human collaborators.
