Analyzing and discussing primary creative traits of a robotic artist

Abstract We present a robot aimed at producing a collage formed by a mix of photomontage and digital collage. The artwork is created after a visual and verbal interaction with a human user. The proposed system, through a cognitive architecture, allows the robot to manage the three different phases of the real-time artwork process: (i) taking inspiration from information captured during the postural and verbal interaction with the human user and from the analysis of his/her social web items; (ii) performing a creative process to obtain a model of the artwork; (iii) executing the creative collage composition and providing a significant title. The paper explains, primarily, how the creativity traits of the robot are implemented in the proposed architecture: how ideas are generated through an elaboration that is modulated by affective influences; how the personality and the artistic behavior are modeled by learning and guided by external evaluations; the motivation and the confidence evolution as a function of successes or failures.

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