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Towards Collaborative Creativity in Persuasive Multi-agent Systems

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Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Social Good. The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2021)

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Persuasive systems play a crucial role in supporting and counseling people to achieve individual behavior change goals. Intelligent systems have been used for inducing a positive adjustment of attitudes and routines in scenarios such as physiotherapy exercises, medication adherence, smoking cessation, nutrition & diet changes, physical activity, etc. Beyond the specialization and effectiveness provided by these systems on individual scenarios, we provide a vision for collaborative creativity based on the multi-agent systems paradigm. Considering novelty and usefulness as fundamental dimensions of a creative persuasive strategy, we identify the challenges and opportunities of modeling and orchestrating intelligent agents to collaboratively engage in exploratory and transformational creativity interactions. Moreover, we identify the foundations, outline a road-map for this novel research line, and elaborate on the potential impact and real-life applications.

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This research has been partially supported by the HES-SO RCSO ISNet project PERSA: Computational Persuasion in eHealth Support Applications.

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Calbimonte, JP., Calvaresi, D., Schumacher, M. (2021). Towards Collaborative Creativity in Persuasive Multi-agent Systems. In: Dignum, F., Corchado, J.M., De La Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Social Good. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12946. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85739-4_4

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