Human–AI Teaming & Creativity | Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn

Generative AI is moving from tool to teammate — and that changes how people create together. My research examines what happens to human creativity and group dynamics when AI joins the room: how it reshapes co-creative roles, shifts social norms like politeness and trust, and helps or hinders collaborative ideation and participatory storytelling communities. I extend this to Human–AI Teaming in design, and to high-stakes decisions made under stress, such as emergency medical services. Running through all of it is a practical question: how do we integrate AI into creative and software-design workflows ethically — so that people and machines make each other better?

Selected work: AI-augmented brainwriting for group ideation (Shaer et al., 2024); the dynamics of politeness in human–AI vs. human–human interaction (Lazebnik et al., 2025); occupational identity under generative AI (Schmitt et al., 2025); and community perspectives on fanfiction in the age of AI (Alfassi et al., 2026).

References

2026

IJHCI

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption

Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, and 3 more authors

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2026

Bib

@article{alfassi2025fanfiction,
  title = {Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption},
  author = {Alfassi, Roi and Cooper, Angelora and Mitchell, Zoe and Calabro, Mary and Shaer, Orit and Mokryn, Osnat},
  journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction},
  volume = {42},
  number = {5},
  pages = {3062--3094},
  year = {2026}
}

2025

CSCW

Mind Your Manners: The Dynamics of Politeness in Human-AI vs. Human-Human Interactions

Teddy Lazebnik, Lior Zalmanson, and Osnat Mokryn

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2025

Bib

@article{lazebnik2025manners,
  title = {Mind Your Manners: The Dynamics of Politeness in Human-AI vs. Human-Human Interactions},
  author = {Lazebnik, Teddy and Zalmanson, Lior and Mokryn, Osnat},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)},
  volume = {9},
  number = {7},
  pages = {1--22},
  year = {2025}
}

ICIS

Tensions of Occupational Identity and Patterns of Identity Protection: Preliminary Insights on Generative AI in the Software Engineering Domain

Anuschka Schmitt, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Osnat Mokryn

In ICIS 2025 Proceedings, 2025

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{schmitt2025generative,
  title = {Tensions of Occupational Identity and Patterns of Identity Protection: Preliminary Insights on Generative AI in the Software Engineering Domain},
  author = {Schmitt, Anuschka and Gajos, Krzysztof Z. and Mokryn, Osnat},
  booktitle = {ICIS 2025 Proceedings},
  year = {2025},
}

2024

CHI

AI-Augmented Brainwriting: Investigating the Use of LLMs in Group Ideation

Orit Shaer, Angelora Cooper, Osnat Mokryn, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{shaer2024brainwriting,
  title = {AI-Augmented Brainwriting: Investigating the Use of LLMs in Group Ideation},
  author = {Shaer, Orit and Cooper, Angelora and Mokryn, Osnat and Kun, Andrew L. and Ben-Shoshan, Hagit},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {1050:1--1050:17},
  year = {2024}
}