摘要:This article discusses the impact of artificially intelligent computers to the process of design,play and educational activities. A computational process which has the necessary intelligence and creativityto take a proactive role in such activities can not only support human creativity but also foster it andprompt lateral thinking. The argument is made both from the perspective of human creativity, where thecomputational input is treated as an external stimulus which triggers re-framing of humans’ routines andmental associations, but also from the perspective of computational creativity where human input andinitiative constrains the search space of the algorithm, enabling it to focus on specific possible solutions to aproblem rather than globally search for the optimal. The article reviews four mixed-initiative tools (fordesign and educational play) based on how they contribute to human-machine co-creativity. Theseparadigms serve different purposes, afford different human interaction methods and incorporate differentcomputationally creative processes. Assessing how co-creativity is facilitated on a per-paradigm basisstrengthens the theoretical argument and provides an initial seed for future work in the burgeoning domainof mixed-initiative interaction.
关键词:Computational creativity; human-computer interaction; computer-aided;design; digital games; lateral thinking