Arny: A Study of a Co-creative Interaction Model Focused on Emotion Feedback.

This paper presents an AI-based co-creative system in which the interaction model focuses on emotional feedback, that is, the decisions about the creative contribution from the AI agent is based on the emotion detected in the human co-creator. In human-human collaboration, gestures, verbal communications, and emotional responses are among the general communication strategies used to shape the interactions between the collaborators and negotiate the contributions. Emotional feedback allows human collaborators to passively communicate their experience and their perception of the process without distracting the flow of the task. In human-human co-creative collaboration, participants interact and contribute to the task based on their perception of the collaboration over time. In designing human-AI co-creative collaboration, we address two challenges: (1) perceiving the user’s cognitive state to determine the dynamics of collaboration, such as whether the system should lead, follow, or wait, and (2) deciding what the agent should contribute to the artifact. This paper presents a model of an AI agent that addresses these challenges and the results of our study of participants that interact with the co-creative agent.