EAGER: Augmenting Human Creativity Through Human-Robot Interaction

几乎没有人会不同意创造力在人类生活中的重要性。科学有赖于创造性思维。今天各国的经济生存能力也是如此。这笔赠款的目标是开辟人与机器人互动的新领域，从而有可能通过人与机器人的互动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，然后社交机器人与用户进行对话，决定搜索的关键字，过滤结果(基于用户的独特和长期历史)，并决定在人-机器人对话的特定结合点提供哪些结果。智力价值：有四个首要目标：(1)将创造力领域概念化，并在人与机器人的交互中产生创造力方法。(2)开发人-机器人交互模式，建立(A)人们与社交机器人的先前社会关系，从而使人们对与机器人进行创造持开放态度，以及(B)与机器人的互动以进行创造过程本身。(3)在与ATR的人形机器人Robovie互动中培养创造力的试点研究。和(4)进行一项正式的研究研究，以测试ATR的人形机器人Robovie的新形式的创造力。广泛的影响：这项研究将(1)导致对本科生和研究生的指导；(2)扩大女性在人机交互中的参与；以及(3)促进专业知识从日本领先的实验室转移到美国。更广泛地说，(4)HRI的这一新愿景可能具有变革性，因为在接下来的3-10年里，这种形式的人-机器人互动可以提供一种全新的方式，让人们创造新的知识，从而有助于促进科学以及一些人文学科的指数式增长。

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.