Human-Robot Co-Creativity: A Scoping Review -- Informing a Research Agenda for Human-Robot Co-Creativity with Older Adults

TL;DR

This paper reviews existing research on human-robot co-creativity, highlighting the lack of studies involving older adults and proposing a research agenda to explore this demographic's creative interactions with social robots.

Contribution

It systematically analyzes current literature on co-creative robotics, identifies a significant gap regarding older adults, and outlines future research directions for inclusive human-robot creative collaboration.

Findings

No studies involving older adults in co-creativity research

Insights into design strategies for co-creative robotics

Recommendations for future research focusing on older adults

Abstract

This review is the first step in a long-term research project exploring how social robotics and AI-generated content can contribute to the creative experiences of older adults, with a focus on collaborative drawing and painting. We systematically searched and selected literature on human-robot co-creativity, and analyzed articles to identify methods and strategies for researching co-creative robotics. We found that none of the studies involved older adults, which shows the gap in the literature for this often involved participant group in robotics research. The analyzed literature provides valuable insights into the design of human-robot co-creativity and informs a research agenda to further investigate the topic with older adults. We argue that future research should focus on ecological and developmental perspectives on creativity, on how system behavior can be aligned with the values of older adults, and on the system structures that support this best.