Artificial Innocence: Interactions between the Study of Children's Drawing and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

During the cognitive revolution, research on children’s drawings shared common ideas with artificial intelligence (AI) theory. In particular, both relied on the information-processing metaphor of mind. This interaction is represented in a computer program called ROSE (Representation of Spatial Experience), which produces childlike drawings. That the information-processing metaphor did not easily accommodate development was subsequently overlooked by drawing research. AI researchers moved on to study dynamic systems that actually do develop. Here, a computer program implementation, EOR, is proposed that is intended to represent a potentially fruitful interaction between the study of children’s drawing development and modern AI theory.

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