CAREER: Combining Crowdsourcing and Computational Creativity to Enable Narrative Generation for Education, Training, and Healthcare

职业：将众包和计算创造力相结合，为教育、培训和医疗保健生成叙事

• 批准号: 1350339
• 负责人: Mark Riedl
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-02-15 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1350339&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Combining; Crowdsourcing; Computational; Creativity

The proposed project explores the problem of automated narrative generation, the creation of narratives by computer systems. The project introduces a transformative new approach to narrative generation that blends human and computational creativity with crowdsourcing. The system addresses fundamental limitations of computer reliance on pre-coded domain knowledge in order to generate a virtually unlimited variety of narratives and make it possible for non-experts and non-programmers to create interactive narratives. The research has four major components: (1) Develop artificial intelligence algorithms that emulate human ability to create narratives. (2) Design and implement novel models of human-computer creative collaboration. (3) Study fundamental questions pertaining to human narrative learning and cognition. (4) Explore the role of narrative generation in real-world domains: virtual agents that create rapport with humans and intelligent creativity augmentation tools for creating and sharing interactive experiences. The work will be piloted in two healthcare systems: a virtual agent that creates rapport and fosters longitudinal engagement with patients through autobiographical narratives; and intelligent tools that allow caregivers to create social skill scenarios for young adults with autism to practice. Narratives are important because they are a fundamental means by which humans organize, understand, and explain the world. If computer systems could create effective narratives, they would be better able to interact with people. The research will result in novel algorithms, software, and a body of experimental knowledge that will enable the building of interactive narrative systems that are practical, scalable, usable by non-programmers, and can address societally important problems in education, training, and healthcare interventions. The proposed approach to creativity support will significantly lower the technical, artistic, and skill barriers to creating interactive narrative systems, opening avenues for educators, trainers, caregivers, and hobbyists to create and share interactive experiences.The project includes an educational plan to develop a sustainable, annual summer hack-a-thon camp wherein high school students work alongside K-12 teachers to create interactive narratives that motivate and guide classroom inquiry based learning. The hack-a-thon aims to provide minority and low socioeconomic high school students with hands-on computing science experience and to produce a library of interactive inquiry-based learning software systems for K-12 teachers.

拟议的项目探讨了自动叙事生成的问题，即由计算机系统创建叙事。该项目引入了一种革命性的新叙事生成方法，将人类和计算创造力与众包相结合。该系统解决了计算机依赖预编码领域知识的根本局限性，以便生成几乎无限种类的叙述，并使非专家和非程序员能够创造互动叙述。这项研究有四个主要组成部分：(1)开发模仿人类创造叙事能力的人工智能算法。(2)设计并实现了新颖的人机创造性协作模型。(3)研究人类叙事学习和认知的基本问题。(4)探索叙事生成在真实世界领域中的作用：创造与人类融洽关系的虚拟代理人，以及创造和分享互动体验的智能创造力增强工具。这项工作将在两个医疗系统中进行试点：一个是虚拟代理人，通过自传式叙事创建融洽的关系并促进与患者的纵向参与；另一个是智能工具，允许照顾者为患有自闭症的年轻人创造社交技能情景进行练习。叙事之所以重要，是因为它们是人类组织、理解和解释世界的基本手段。如果计算机系统能够创建有效的叙事，它们将能够更好地与人互动。这项研究将产生新颖的算法、软件和大量的实验知识，使交互式叙事系统的构建成为可能，这些系统实用、可扩展、可供非程序员使用，并可以解决教育、培训和医疗干预中的社会重要问题。拟议的创造力支持方法将显著降低创建互动叙事系统的技术、艺术和技能障碍，为教育者、培训者、照顾者和业余爱好者创造和分享互动体验开辟途径。该项目包括一项教育计划，以发展可持续的年度夏令营，在该夏令营中，高中生与K-12教师合作创建互动叙事，以激励和指导基于课堂探究的学习。黑客马拉松旨在为少数族裔和社会经济水平较低的高中生提供实践计算机科学的体验，并为K-12教师制作一个基于交互探究的学习软件系统库。