Cubus: Autonomous Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of Children

Pires, André Elias Bastos; Alves‐Oliveira, Patrícia; Arriaga, Patrí­cia; Martinho, Carlos

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_46

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“…In [10], authors explored the potential of creating virtual dynamic personas on designers' creative thinking processes. Moreover, CUBUS [29] is a system that utilizes virtual synthetic characters to promote idea generation in children in a storytelling activity. Educational scholars along with teachers of robotics have also suggested a positive impact of using robotics for stimulating creativity in children [4][44] [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

Once Upon a Story

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Skantze

Peters

2021

Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

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Creativity is a vital inherent human trait. In an attempt to stimulate children's creativity, we present the design and evaluation of an interaction between a child and a social robot in a storytelling context. Using a software interface, children were asked to collaboratively create a story with the robot. We conducted a study with 38 children in two conditions. In one condition, the children interacted with a robot exhibiting creative behavior while in the other condition, they interacted with a robot exhibiting non creative behavior. The robot's creativity was defined as verbal and performance creativity. The robot's creative and non creative behaviors were extracted from a previously collected data set and were validated in an online survey with 100 participants. Contrary to our initial hypothesis, children's creativity measures were not higher in the creative condition than in the non creative condition. Our results suggest that merely the robot's creative behavior is insufficient to stimulate creativity in children in a child robot interaction. We further discuss other design factors that may facilitate sparking creativity in children in similar settings in the future.

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Once Upon a Story

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Peters

2021

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“…Computers have already been used to serve as a tool to help game designers to co-design new levels for their games, acting as a colleague, showing a positive influence for the creative level design process [35]. Additionally, when children create a story with autonomous virtual agents in a tablet app, their creative idea generation process is richer with more fluency of ideas, demonstrating that the autonomous behavior of technology can spark creativity in a storytelling task [36]. Other interesting projects with virtual environments have been developed to demonstrate technological creativity, e.g., [37].…”

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Sparking Creativity with Robots: A Design Perspective

Alves‐Oliveira¹,

Tulli²,

Wilken³

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We present the design and evaluation process of a robot aimed at stimulating creativity in humans in a collaborative drawing-oriented task. Collaboration towards a common goal is known to be one of the most influential factors for creativity nourishing. The social robot acted as a collaborative peer in a drawing activity, taking turns with the human, to complete their drawing. In each turn, both "artists" (the robot and the human) draw something new until they achieved their final drawing. The goal was to study if a robot, in comparison with a tablet, can stimulate creativity. A total of 28 participants were distributed across robot and tablet conditions. Creativity scores for each drawing were calculated. Contrary to what was expected, the creativity score did not present a statistically significant main effect across conditions. We discuss our results under a design perspective, addressing the role of the robot’s embodiment and presence, as well as the purpose of use for robots in society and what implications there is for design.

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“…Therefore, they are considered similar to test-like exercises that can hinder their creative expression. The fast pace of technology development enabled the design of new tools for exploring the context of creativity stimulation [8] (e.g., the CUBUS virtual environment for storytelling with emotionally evocative characters [9]).…”

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“…Examples of simple behaviors are detailed at this link: https://github.com/ patricialvesoliveira/YOLO-Software/wiki/SimpleBehavior-Hierarchy9 Composed behaviors are further explained at this link: https://github.com/ patricialvesoliveira/YOLO-Software/wiki/ComposedBehavior…”

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Software architecture for YOLO, a creativity-stimulating robot

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YOLO is a social robot designed and developed to stimulate creativity in children through storytelling activities. Children use it as a character in their stories. This article details the artificial intelligence software developed for YOLO. The implemented software schedules through several Creativity Behaviors to find the ones that stimulate creativity more effectively. YOLO can choose between convergent and divergent thinking techniques, two important processes of creative thought. These techniques were developed based on the psychological theories of creativity development and on research from creativity experts who work with children. Additionally, this software allows the creation of Social Behaviors that enable the robot to behave as a believable character. On top of our framework, we built 3 main social behavior parameters: Exuberant, Aloof, and Harmonious. These behaviors are meant to ease immersive play and the process of character creation. The 3 social behaviors were based on psychological theories of personality and developed using children's input during co-design studies. Overall, this work presents an attempt to design, develop, and deploy social robots that nurture intrinsic human abilities, such as the ability to be creative.

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Cubus: Autonomous Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of Children

Cited by 6 publications

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Once Upon a Story

Once Upon a Story

Sparking Creativity with Robots: A Design Perspective

Software architecture for YOLO, a creativity-stimulating robot

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