{"653071":{"#nid":"653071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AI Dance Partner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis 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. \u0026ldquo;This award supports research to develop a computational architecture (called PACE) to model embodied and co-creative behavior between humans and embodied intelligent machines.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis research is inspired by a research project called LuminAI. LuminAI is an on-going project in Expressive Machinery Lab which explores.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAccording to the NSF grant \u0026ldquo;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.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe main contribution of this work are \u0026ldquo; 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.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;This project also supports K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and public education through outreach and mentorship, and via public human-AI performances.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Brian Magerko receives an NSF grant"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"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."}],"uid":"35490","created_gmt":"2021-11-22 15:33:23","changed_gmt":"2021-11-22 15:34:18","author":"amg30","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K1juBtnJjTk","title":"Watch this video to learn more about LuminAI"}],"groups":[{"id":"275211","name":"Digital Media Program of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}