Abstract
Self-augmentation media such as power-assisted suits and AR technology have been studied to "directly" impart the properties and capabilities of media to humans. We propose “Caug Studio”, a novel architecture of self-augmentation media that "indirectly" extends human capabilities by drawing human creativity into the incompleteness of media properties. “Caug Studio” is characterized not only by the incompleteness of the media that draws in human's potential, but also by the expansion of creative abilities such as drawing and music making, and by the co-creative expansion in which humans and media complement each other to create a single work. In this paper, we evaluate and discuss the effectiveness of “Caug Studio” from the viewpoint of well-being using a singing music robot, “Tune-born”, which was developed based on “Caug Studio”.
