YOLO, a Social Robot to Foster Children’s Creativity

YOLO, Your Own Living Object, is a Social Robot co-designed by children with the purpose of increasing their creativity through effective human-robot interaction.

This robot can act as a character during the storytelling procedure fostering creative storylines that cannot arise otherwise.

Key features:

• features a child-proof design
• can sense the kid’s touch and allows the kid to take complete control
• uses two techniques to stimulate creativity:
  • contrast technique stimulates divergent thinking: YOLO gives opposite ideas
  • mirror technique stimulates convergent thinking: YOLO elaborates on the same idea
• primary sensors used:
  • touch sensors
  • motion detection sensors
• supervised machine learning with the convex hull is used to determine the play patterns and make decision about which creativity technique to use

More information:

• https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3371382.3378395
• https://patricialvesoliveira.com/
• https://hcrlab.cs.washington.edu/