Broadening horizons: using curiosity to diversify behaviour

Harnessing AI to stimulate curiousity

Design shapes worlds and behaviours, and at its heart this project explores how interactive systems can encourage their users to try new things.

About the project

Recent developments in artificial intelligence that can estimate what will make people curious are just one way in which these enquiries are made possible. The expectation is that new ideas will be generated about how interactive technology can encourage diverse behaviour by stimulating curiosity. Building on a greater theoretical understanding of how to diversify user behaviour, these investigations will lead to the creation of a framework for how to design interactive systems that encourage users to try new things.

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Project team

Associate Professor Kazjon Grace, University of Sydney 

Professor Mary Lou Maher, University of North Carolinate 

Hamish Henderson, University of Sydney

Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, University of Sydney