EAGER: Augmenting Human Creativity Through Human-Robot Interaction

很少有人会不同意创造力在人类生活中的重要性。 科学取决于创造性的头脑。 今天各国的经济活力也是如此。 这项资助的目标是在人机交互方面开辟一个新的领域，从而有可能通过人机交互来增强人类的创造力。 这种可能性可以通过在社交机器人中嵌入复杂的搜索功能和人工智能软件来实现，然后与用户进行对话，决定搜索的关键词，过滤结果（基于用户的独特和长期历史），并决定在人机对话的特定节点上提出哪些结果。 智力优势：有四个总体目标：（1）概念化的创造力领域，并产生创造力的方法，在人机交互。 (2)开发人机交互模式，建立（a）人们与社交机器人的先前社交关系，以便人们愿意与机器人一起创作，以及（B）与机器人的互动，以实现创作过程本身。 (3)在与ATR的人形机器人Robovie的互动中培养创造力的试点研究。 （4）开展正式的研究，用ATR的人形机器人Robovie测试新形式的创造力。更广泛的影响：这项研究将（1）指导本科生和研究生;（2）扩大女性在HCI中的参与;（3）促进专家知识从日本领先的实验室转移到美国。 更广泛地说，（4）HRI的这种新愿景可能是变革性的，因为在未来3-10年内，这种人机交互形式可以提供一种全新的方式，让人们产生新的知识，从而有助于促进科学和一些人文学科的指数增长。

Few would disagree about the importance of creativity in human lives. Science depends on the creative mind. So does the economic viability of nations today. The goal of this grant is to open up a new frontier in human-robot interaction whereby it becomes possible to augment human creativity through human-robot interaction. This possibility could emerge by embedding sophisticated search functions and AI software in a social robot, which then engages in dialog with the user, decides on key terms for a search, filters the results (based on unique and long-standing histories of the user), and decides which results to bring forward at specific junctions in the human-robot dialog. Intellectual Merit: There are four overarching goals: (1) To conceptualize the creativity domain and to generate creativity methods in human-robot interaction. (2) To develop human-robot interaction patterns that set up (a) people's prior social relationships with a social robot such that people are open to creating with the robot, and (b) the interactions with the robot for the creative process itself. (3) Piloting research toward fostering creativity in interaction with ATR's humanoid robot, Robovie. And (4) conducting a formal research study to test new forms of creativity with ATR's humanoid robot, Robovie.Broader Impacts: This research will (1) lead to the mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students; (2) broaden the participation of females in HCI; and (3) promote the transfer of expert knowledge from a leading Japanese laboratory to the United States. More broadly, (4) this new vision for HRI could be transformative insofar as over the next 3-10 years this form of human-robot interaction could provide an entirely new way that people generate new knowledge, and thereby help promote exponential growth in the sciences, as well as in some of the humanities.