An Experimental Study on Facilitation Methods for Supporting Creative Cognition Using Robots

Abstract

This study focused on the facilitation method using information systems and investigated what factors are related to the facilitation for creative cognition. We experimentally investigated what kind of interfaces and interaction methods are useful in an idea generation task. In Experiment 1, we examined factors related to anthropomorphism and physical reality, and found that suggestions from a robot-based facilitation facilitates better creative cognition than the control with no such facilitations. In Experiment 2, we focused on robot-based facilitation, which was found to be useful in Experiment 1, and examined how interactive modes such as confirmation of participant’s metacognitive activities influences on performance. As a result, we found that the facilitation with confirmation produced better outcomes on performance.