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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 22, 2021
This Summer Brian Magerko, professor in the School of Literature Media and Communication was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to further explore the potentials of human and AI co-creation. “This award supports research to develop a computational architecture (called PACE) to model embodied and co-creative behavior between humans and embodied intelligent machines.”
This research is inspired by a research project called LuminAI. LuminAI is an on-going project in Expressive Machinery Lab which explores.
According to the NSF grant “The goal of this project is to develop a modular, reusable system for building embodied co-creative AI. The project team will use contemporary dance as an application domain, as its practitioners are formally trained in exploring, expressing, and collaborating through embodied non-contact physical interactions.”
The main contribution of this work are “ a) the first open-access annotated dyadic movement dataset; b) a better understanding of how human dancers co-create; c) a interface for dancers to train and improvise with AI; and d) an architecture for making co-creative AI in motor-related domains based on empirical studies of co-creativity.”
“This project also supports K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and public education through outreach and mentorship, and via public human-AI performances.”
