Project Co-Art: Improving Children’s Imagination Through AI-based Human-Computer Co-creation

This research proposes a new AI-based human-computer co-creation system, Co-Art, which helps enhance children’s imagination through drawing. In contrast to existing approaches, we use a more efficient and child-friendly form of voice and brush interaction, where the machine understands the sentence described by the child and visualizes it in an abstract style. The machine’s artwork can inspire the child to create a second version. In a comparative experiment, we found that the aesthetic and richness of the images that the Co-Art-trained children drew showed a significant difference compared to the non-trained group $(p\lt 0.01)$, with a significant increase in imagination and creativity $(p\lt 0.05)$.