Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity

Sinha, Tanmay; Bai, Zhen; Cassell, Justine

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“…Despite the sizable literature on curiosity, little work has explored methods to influence curiosity by manipulating the social environment. Important exceptions include studies of the social nature of curiosity focusing on the role of group membership (Sinha, Bai, & Cassell, 2017a; Thomas & Vinuales, 2017), and models of how curiosity is influenced in social and group learning settings (Paranjape, Bai, & Cassell, 2018; Sinha, Bai, & Cassell, 2017b). For example, Sinha et al (2017a) used a data‐driven approach to identify behaviors that maximize an individual's probability of demonstrating curiosity during open‐ended problem‐solving in group work.…”

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Curiosity Is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity

2021

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Our actions and decisions are regularly influenced by the social environment around us. Can social cues be leveraged to induce curiosity and affect subsequent behavior? Across two experiments, we show that curiosity is contagious: The social environment can influence people's curiosity about the answers to scientific questions. Participants were presented with everyday questions about science from a popular on‐line forum, and these were shown with a high or low number of up‐votes as a social cue to popularity. Participants indicated their curiosity about the answers, and they were given an opportunity to reveal a subset of those answers. Participants reported greater curiosity about the answers to questions when the questions were presented with a high (vs. low) number of up‐votes, and they were also more likely to choose to reveal the answers to questions with a high (vs. low) number of up‐votes. These effects were partially mediated by surprise and by the inferred usefulness of knowledge, with a more dramatic effect of low up‐votes in reducing curiosity than of high up‐votes in boosting curiosity. Taken together, these results highlight the important role social information plays in shaping our curiosity.

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2021

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“…Because such a causal relation (based on cause-effect relations with constant conjunctions) between A and B can be direct, mediated by a third time-series C, or be a combination of both, the technique of conditional Granger causality allows modeling causal relationship among multivariate behavioral time series. More technical details can be found in [81].…”

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“…We have developed a virtual peer that aims to elicit curiosity for young children in a collaborative tabletop game named Outbreak [82]. We applied heuristics derived from our theoretical framework of curiosity as described in this article and in [83], as well as our subsequent computational model of curiosity [81], [84]. The objective was to design social interactions for the virtual peer to perform for evoking key curiosity drives which lead to identification and acquisition of knowledge.…”

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A Novel Multimodal Approach for Studying the Dynamics of Curiosity in Small Group Learning

Sinha¹,

Zhang²,

Cassell³

2021

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Curiosity is a vital metacognitive skill in educational contexts, leading to creativity, and a love of learning. And while many school systems increasingly undercut curiosity by teaching to the test, teachers are increasingly interested in how to evoke curiosity in their students to prepare them for a world in which lifelong learning and reskilling will be more and more important. One aspect of curiosity that has received little attention, however, is the role of peers in eliciting curiosity. We present what we believe to be the first theoretical framework that articulates an integrated socio-cognitive account of curiosity that ties observable behaviors in peers to underlying curiosity states. We make a bipartite distinction between individual and interpersonal functions that contribute to curiosity, and multimodal behaviors that fulfill these functions. We validate the proposed framework by leveraging a longitudinal latent variable modeling approach. Findings confirm a positive predictive relationship between the latent variables of individual and interpersonal functions and curiosity, with the interpersonal functions exercising a comparatively stronger influence. Prominent behavioral realizations of these functions are also discovered in a data-driven manner. We instantiate the proposed theoretical framework in a set of strategies and tactics that can be incorporated into learning technologies to indicate, evoke, and scaffold curiosity. This work is a step towards designing learning technologies that can recognize and evoke moment-by-moment curiosity during learning in social contexts and towards a more complete multimodal learning analytics. The underlying rationale is applicable more generally for developing computer support for other metacognitive and socio-emotional skills.

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“…Despite the sizable literature on curiosity, little work has explored methods to influence curiosity by manipulating the social environment. Important exceptions include studies of the social nature of curiosity focusing on the role of group membership (Sinha et al, 2017a;Thomas & Vinuales, 2017), and models of how curiosity is influenced in social and group learning settings (Sinha et al, 2017b;Paranjape et al, 2018). For example, Sinha et al (2017a) used a data-driven approach to identify behaviors that maximize an individual's probability of demonstrating curiosity during open-ended problem-solving in group work.…”

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Curiosity is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity

Dubey¹,

Mehta²,

Lombrozo³

2020

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Our actions and decisions are regularly influenced by the social environment around us. Can social cues be leveraged to induce curiosity and affect subsequent behavior? Across two experiments, we show that curiosity is contagious: the social environment can influence people's curiosity about the answers to scientific questions. Participants were presented with everyday questions about science from a popular on-line forum, and these were shown with a high or low number of up-votes as a social cue to popularity. Participants indicated their curiosity about the answers, and they were given an opportunity to reveal a subset of those answers. Participants reported greater curiosity about the answers to questions when the questions were presented with a high (vs. low) number of up-votes, and they were also more likely to choose to reveal the answers to questions with a high (vs. low) number of up-votes. These effects were partially mediated by surprise and by the inferred usefulness of knowledge, with a more dramatic effect of low up-votes in reducing curiosity than of high up-votes in boosting curiosity. Taken together, these results highlight the important role social information plays in shaping our curiosity.

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Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Curiosity Is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity

Curiosity Is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity

A Novel Multimodal Approach for Studying the Dynamics of Curiosity in Small Group Learning

Curiosity is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity

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