What role can AI play in supporting and constraining creative coding by
families? To investigate these questions, we built a Wizard of Oz platform to
help families engage in creative coding in partnership with a
researcher-operated AI Friend. We designed a 3 week series of programming
activities with ten children, 7 to 12 years old, and nine parents. Using a
creative self efficacy lens, we observe that families found it easier to
generate game ideas when prompted with questions by AI Friend; parents played a
unique role in guiding children in more complex programming tasks when the AI
Friend failed to help, and children were more encouraged to write code for
novel ideas using the AI friend help. These findings suggest that AI supported
platforms should highlight unique family AI interactions focused on children's
agency and creative self-efficacy.

探究 AI 在家庭创意编程中的支持和限制作用，研究人员建立了一个 Wizard of Oz 平台，帮助家庭通过与研究员操作的 AI Friend 合作进行创意编程，发现 AI Friend 通过问题提示帮助家庭更容易产生游戏点子，家长在 AI Friend 无法提供帮助时在指导孩子完成更复杂的编程任务中发挥了独特的作用，儿童则更加愿意利用 AI Friend 的帮助为新想法编写代码。这些发现表明，AI 支持的平台应突出关注家庭内关于孩子自主性和创意自我效能的独特 AI 交互。