An Overview of Computational Co-creative Pretend Play with a Human

This article provides an overview of our ongoing research project to better understand and formally represent the sociocognitive processes employed in sociodramatic pretend play. Pretend play involves the collaborative cocreation and subsequent enactment of a narrative experience using physical objects. This paper describes our empirical study of human pretend play, including preliminary results; the computational representations of those initial findings; and the design of the Co-creative Cognitive Architecture (CoCoA), a set of components that support the design of co-creative intelligent agents.