@inproceedings { alves-oliveira16, abstract = {Creativity is one of the most important and pervasive of all human abilities. However, it seems to decline during school age years, in a phenomenon entitled "creative crisis". As developed societies are shifting from an industrialized economy to a creative economy, there is a need to support creative abilities through life. With this work, we aim to use social robots as boosters for creative-driven behaviors with children.}, booktitle = {Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on}, keywords = {Social Robotic Companions;}, month = {March}, pages = {591--592}, title = {Boosting children's creativity through creative interactions with social robots}, year = {2016}, author = {PatrĂ­cia Alves-Oliveira and PatrĂ­cia Arriaga and Guy Hoffman and Ana Paiva} }