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Human Creativity Can be Facilitated Through Interacting With a Social Robot

Authors:

Peter H. Kahn, Jr.,

Takayuki Kanda,

Hiroshi Ishiguro,

Jolina H. Ruckert,

Heather E. GaryAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '16: The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction

Pages 173 - 180

Published: 07 March 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Is it possible to design robots of the future so that they can enhance people's creative endeavors? Forty-eight young adults were asked to produce their most creative ideas in a small Zen rock garden in a laboratory setting. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In one condition, the robot Robovie (through a Wizard of Oz interface) encouraged participants to generate creative ideas (e.g., "Can you think of another way to do that?"), and pulled relevant images and video clip from the web for each participant to look at which could help spur the participant into more creative expressions. In a second condition, participants engaged in the same Zen rock garden task with the same core information, but through the modality of a self-paced PowerPoint presentation. Results showed that participants engaged in the creativity task longer and provided almost twice the number of creative expressions in the robot condition compared to the PowerPoint condition. Discussion focuses on a vision of social robotics coupled with advances in natural language processing to enhance the human creative mind and spirit.

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Index Terms

Human Creativity Can be Facilitated Through Interacting With a Social Robot
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Psychology
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Collaborative interaction
  2. Interaction design
    1. Empirical studies in interaction design

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HRI '16: The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction

March 2016

676 pages

ISBN:9781467383707

General Chairs:
Christoph Bartneck
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Yukie Nagai
Osaka University, Japan
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Program Chairs:
Ana Paiva
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Selma Šabanović
Indiana University Bloomington, USA

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SIGAI: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
RA: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
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March 7 - 10, 2016

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461778.3462050
Ali SPark HBreazeal CMirza-Babaei PMcArthur VVanden Abeele VBirk M(2020)Can Children Emulate a Robotic Non-Player Character's Figural Creativity?Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3410404.3414251(499-509)Online publication date: 2-Nov-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3410404.3414251
Lee WJung MBelpaeme TYoung JGunes HRiek L(2020)Ludic-HRICompanion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3371382.3377429(582-584)Online publication date: 23-Mar-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3371382.3377429
Ali SMoroso TBreazeal CDow SMaher MKerne ALatulipe C(2019)Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot?Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Creativity and Cognition10.1145/3325480.3325499(359-368)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2019
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Law MJeong JKwatra AJung MHoffman GHarrison SBardzell SNeustaedter CTatar D(2019)Negotiating the Creative Space in Human-Robot Collaborative DesignProceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3322276.3322343(645-657)Online publication date: 18-Jun-2019
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Frich JMacDonald Vermeulen LRemy CBiskjaer MDalsgaard PBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCIProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300619(1-18)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
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