Paper

Alves-Oliveira, P., Arriaga, P., Hoffman, G. & Paiva, A. (2016)

Boosting Children’s Creativity through Creative Interactions with Social Robots

11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'16) Late Breaking Reports

Abstract

Creativity is one of the most important and pervasive of all human abilities. However, it seems to decline during school age years, in a phenomenon entitled ”creative crisis”. As developed societies are shifting from an industrialized economy to a creative economy, there is a need to support creative abilities through life. With this work, we aim to use social robots as boosters for creative-driven behaviors with children.