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.

翻译：人工智能在支持与约束家庭创意编程中能扮演何种角色？为探究这些问题，我们构建了一个“巫师之幕”平台，帮助家庭与由研究者操控的AI朋友协作进行创意编程。我们设计了三周系列编程活动，参与对象包括十名7至12岁儿童及九位家长。通过创造性自我效能视角，我们观察到：当AI朋友以提问方式引导时，家庭更容易产生游戏创意；当AI朋友无法提供帮助时，家长在引导儿童完成复杂编程任务中发挥独特作用；而在AI朋友协助下，儿童更受鼓励为新颖创意编写代码。研究结果表明，AI支持平台应突出以儿童自主性和创造性自我效能为核心的家庭-AI独特互动模式。