The HCI field has demonstrated a growing interest in leveraging emerging
technologies to enrich urban experiences. However, insufficient studies
investigate the experience and design space of AI image technology (AIGT)
applications for playful urban interaction, despite its widespread adoption. To
explore this gap, we conducted an exploratory study involving four participants
who wandered and photographed within Eindhoven Centre and interacted with an
image-to-image AI. Preliminary findings present their observations, the effect
of their familiarity with places, and how AIGT becomes an explorer's tool or
co-speculator. We then highlight AIGT's capability of supporting playfulness,
reimaginations, and rediscoveries of places through defamiliarizing and
familiarizing cityscapes. Additionally, we propose the metaphor AIGT as a
'tourist' to discuss its opportunities for engaging explorations and risks of
stereotyping places. Collectively, our research provides initial empirical
insights and design considerations, inspiring future HCI endeavors for creating
urban play with generative AI.

通过一项初步研究，我们探索了城市游戏互动中 AI 图像技术的体验和设计空间，强调了 AI 图像技术支持玩味、重塑和重新发现城市景观的能力，并提出了 AI 图像技术作为 “旅游者” 的隐喻来讨论其参与探索和对地方刻板印象的风险，为未来创造带有生成型人工智能的城市游戏的 HCI 努力提供了初步的经验见解和设计考虑。