An Enactive Model of Creativity for Computational Collaboration and Co-creation

Davis, Nicholas; Hsiao, Chih-Pin; Popova, Yanna; Magerko, Brian

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6681-8_7

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“…They focus on how continuous engagements provide progressively elaborated task solutions or lead to the negotiation of new interaction frames. This school of thinking has recently spawned important enactive approaches to creativity [ 30 , 31 ]. Interactional self-organization and other complexity-theory concepts have been brought into play by sports and dance scientists, who study domains such as soccer, rugby or basketball that are co-improvised as well as creative [ 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ].…”

Section: Introduction: Being Creative Togethermentioning

confidence: 99%

Sources of Embodied Creativity: Interactivity and Ideation in Contact Improvisation

Kimmel

Hristova

Kussmaul

2018

Behavioral Sciences

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Drawing on a micro-phenomenological paradigm, we discuss Contact Improvisation (CI), where dancers explore potentials of intercorporeal weight sharing, kinesthesia, touch, and momentum. Our aim is to typologically discuss creativity related skills and the rich spectrum of creative resources CI dancers use. This spectrum begins with relatively idea-driven creation and ends with interactivity-centered, fully emergent creation: (1) Ideation internal to the mind, the focus of traditional creativity research, is either restricted to semi-independent dancing or remains schematic and thus open to dynamic specification under the partner’s influence. (2) Most frequently, CI creativity occurs in tightly coupled behavior and is radically emergent. This means that interpersonal synergies emerge without anybody’s prior design or planned coordination. The creative feat is interpersonally “distributed” over cascades of cross-scaffolding. Our micro-genetic data validate notions from dynamic systems theory such as interpersonal self-organization, although we criticize the theory for failing to explain where precisely this leaves skilled intentionality on the individuals’ part. Our answer is that dancers produce a stream of momentary micro-intentions that say “yes, and”, or “no, but” to short-lived micro-affordances, which allows both individuals to skillfully continue, elaborate, tweak, or redirect the collective movement dynamics. Both dancers can invite emergence as part of their playful exploration, while simultaneously bringing to bear global constraints, such as dance scores, and guide the collective dynamics with a set of specialized skills we shall term emergence management.

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Section: Introduction: Being Creative Togethermentioning

confidence: 99%

Sources of Embodied Creativity: Interactivity and Ideation in Contact Improvisation

Kimmel

Hristova

Kussmaul

2018

Behavioral Sciences

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“…The agent's lines are evaluated as 'messing up' the participants drawing when the agent drew over top of a previous structure without taking into account any of the features of that structure. When the agent did make contributions within or on top of a previously defined shape, it must adhere to what could be termed the prevailing 'perceptual logic' of that region [8,9]. Perceptual logic is a concept that describes how each region or idea in a drawing has its internal set of rules and mechanism that serve to constrain what type of visual contributions seem relevant and logical for the target region.…”

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confidence: 99%

Empirically Studying Participatory Sense-Making in Abstract Drawing with a Co-Creative Cognitive Agent

Davis

Hsiao

Singh

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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This paper reports on the design and evaluation of a cocreative drawing partner called the Drawing Apprentice, which was designed to improvise and collaborate on abstract sketches with users in real time. The system qualifies as a new genre of creative technologies termed "casual creators" that are meant to creatively engage users and provide enjoyable creative experiences rather than necessarily helping users make a higher quality creative product. We introduce the conceptual framework of participatory sense-making and describe how it can help model and understand open-ended collaboration. We report the results of a user study comparing human-human collaboration to human-computer collaboration using the Drawing Apprentice system. Based on insights from the user study, we present a set of design recommendations for co-creative agents.

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“…This process of gradual negotiation through interaction with the environment aligns perfectly with what Schön was referring to as a conversation with the materials of a design. From enaction theory, we have built a dynamic model of creative sense-making [1] and identified a set of cognitive characteristics in our design thinking process.…”

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SolidSketch

Hsiao

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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SolidSketch is a solid and parametric modeling program that enables users to rapidly construct 3D parametric and semantic models through sketch and multi-touch input. The interaction design principles of SolidSketch are based on the cognitive science theory of enaction. We argue enactive interactions would support design creativity by enabling rapid iteration and continuous feedback throughout a flexible design exploration. SolidSketch infers the intention of the user by continuously analyzing the surrounding context and user's behavior. This paper briefly introduces the enaction theory, the interaction designs as well as the implementations of SolidSketch.

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An Enactive Model of Creativity for Computational Collaboration and Co-creation

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Sources of Embodied Creativity: Interactivity and Ideation in Contact Improvisation

Sources of Embodied Creativity: Interactivity and Ideation in Contact Improvisation

Empirically Studying Participatory Sense-Making in Abstract Drawing with a Co-Creative Cognitive Agent

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