Human-Machine Co-Creativity with Older Adults -- A Learning Community to Study Explainable Dialogues

TL;DR

This paper discusses a long-term project exploring how AI and robots can enhance creative experiences for older adults through collaborative art, emphasizing explainable AI and human-machine dialogue in a learning community.

Contribution

It introduces a novel learning community course for co-creating art with AI, focusing on explainability and dialogue in human-machine collaboration with older adults.

Findings

Initial prototypes developed for collaborative drawing.

Interviews with seniors and artists inform design.

Course 'Drawing with Robots' fosters interdisciplinary collaboration.

Abstract

This position paper is part of a long-term research project on human-machine co-creativity with older adults. The goal is to investigate how robots and AI-generated content can contribute to older adults' creative experiences, with a focus on collaborative drawing and painting. The research has recently started, and current activities are centred around literature studies, interviews with seniors and artists, and developing initial prototypes. In addition, a course "Drawing with Robots", is being developed to establish collaboration between human and machine learners: older adults, artists, students, researchers, and artificial agents. We present this course as a learning community and as an opportunity for studying how explainable AI and creative dialogues can be intertwined in human-machine co-creativity with older adults.