Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This study experimentally investigated the effect of sugges-tions from a physically present robot on human creative gener-ation. In the experiments, we used a creative task in which theparticipants were required to draw creatures living on a planetother than the Earth, and a physically present robot, which pro-vided suggestions for creative drawing to the participants withspeech sounds and physical movements. First, the results ofthe pilot experiment confirmed that drawing creativity was en-hanced for the participants supported by a robot; however, theywere unlikely to refer to the suggestions. Based on the re-sults, two hypotheses were developed: the suggestions from arobot offered a variety of different perspectives and facilitatedmetacognition (Hypothesis 1), and the suggestions worked asdistractions and suppressed fixated perspectives (Hypothesis2). The experiment was conducted to investigate these hy-potheses. As a result, Hypothesis 1 was supported. The resultswere discussed based on previous studies.