From Support to Disruption : Highlighting the discrepancy between user needs, current AI offerings and research focus for professional video creators, a situated user study.

Sammanfattning: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform various industries, including the creative industry [1]. The potential disruption is facilitated by technology-driven products, with these products it is increasingly important to keep user goals, behaviour and needs at the centre during the development and designing phase. Through a situated user study using online content analysis, a survey, and semi-structured interviews I describe the current role of AI tools in the video production industry, and I identify potential future tools that could benefit professional content creators. According to these professional content creators AI tools currently primarily serve a supportive role, enhancing efficiency and video quality while still requiring human input for storytelling and quality assurance. The professionals are increasingly integrating AI into their workflows to be more increase their value as creators. Drawing from a User-Centered Design (UCD) approach I highlight a discrepancy between user needs and research focus, suggesting that future AI tools should prioritize improving client communication, automating non-creative tasks in post-production, and making animation more accessible. As generative video AI continues to develop, ethical concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity bias continue to be an important aspect for future research to ensure equal representation in generated video content.