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Cubus: Autonomous Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of Children

Name: Cubus: Autonomous Embodied Characters to Stimulate Creative Idea Generation in Groups of Children
Keywords: Autonomous virtual agents, Child-agent interaction, Creative storytelling, Creativity support tool, Group creativity with children

Patrícia Arriaga; André Elias Bastos Pires; André Elias Bastos Pires; Carlos Martinho; Carlos Martinho; Patrícia Alves-Oliveira; Patrícia Alves-Oliveira;

Open Access English

Published: 01 Jan 2017

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Country: Portugal

Summary

Abstract

Creativity is an ability that is crucial in nowadays societies. It is, therefore, important to develop activities that stimulate creativity at a very young age. It seems, however, that there is a lack of tools to support these activities. In this paper, we introduce Cubus, a tool that uses autonomous synthetic characters to stimulate idea generation in groups of children during a storytelling activity. With Cubus, children can invent a story and use the stop-motion technique to record a movie depicting it. In this paper, we explain Cubus’ system design and architecture and present the evaluation of Cubus’ impact in a creative task. This evaluation investigated i...

doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_46

Subjects

free text keywords: Autonomous virtual agents, Child-agent interaction, Creative storytelling, Creativity support tool, Group creativity with children, Architecture, Ideation, Cognitive science, Storytelling, Creativity, media_common.quotation_subject, media_common, Psychology, Young age, Embodied cognition, Communication, business.industry, business

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