Research on surprise relevant to the cognitive‐evolutionary model of surprise proposed by
Meyer, Reisenzein, and Schützwohl (1997) is reviewed. The majority of the assumptions of …

Creating and designing with a machine: do we merely create together (co-create) or can a
machine truly foster our creativity as human creators? When does such co-creation foster the …

Literature in psychology has shown that curiosity is the intrinsic motivation for exploration,
learning, and creativity. Various forms of computational curiosity have been developed to …

Algorithms can generate game content, but so can humans. And while PCG algorithms can
generate some kinds of game content remarkably well and extremely quickly, some other …

The mind is a powerful anticipatory device. It frequently makes predictions about the future,
telling us not only how the world might or will be, but also how it should be-or better-how we …

We develop a conceptual and formal clarification of notion of surprise as a belief-based
phenomenon by exploring a rich typology. Each kind of surprise is associated with a …

The increasing availability of large quantities of product-related data provides an opportunity
to augment human designers with analytical models for evaluating the creativity of a new …

Grounded in the divergent search paradigm and inspired by the principle of surprise for
unconventional discovery in computational creativity, this paper introduces surprise search …

The growing amount of online information today has increased opportunity to discover
interesting and useful information. Various recommender systems have been designed to …

This paper addresses the issue of how to compute the intensity of surprise in an artificial
agent. Resolution of this issue is important for the further specification of the computational …