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From social robots to creative humans and back
Gubenko, Alla; Lubart, Todd; Houssemand, Claude
2022 • In Hedblom, Maria H.; Kantosalo, Anna Aurora; Confalonieri, Robertoet al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity
[en] The research on physically and socially situated artificial agents could complement and enrich computational
models of creativity. This paper discusses six perspective lines of inquiry at the intersection of creativity and
social robotics. It provides a description of ways in
which the field of social robotics may influence (and
be influenced by) creativity research in psychology and
speculates how human-machine co-creation will affect
the notions of both human and artificial creativity. By
discussing potential research areas, the authors hope to
outline an agenda for future collaboration between creativity scholars in psychology, social robotics, and computer science.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Gubenko, Alla ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Education and Social Work (DESW)
Lubart, Todd
Houssemand, Claude ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Education and Social Work (DESW)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
From social robots to creative humans and back
Publication date :
July 2022
Event name :
Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity
Event organizer :
the Association for Computational Creativity
Event place :
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Event date :
from 27-06-2022 to 01-07-2022
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity
Author, co-author :
Confalonieri, Roberto
Kutz, Oliver
Veale, Tony
Editor :
Hedblom, Maria H.
Kantosalo, Anna Aurora
Publisher :
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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