On 23rd-26th June, several AIM PhD students will participate in the 16th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2024 (C&C 2024). C&C is a leading international conference that brings together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to explore technologies wide impacts on creativity, from designing and working with AI tools, to the social and cultural aspects of creativity.
The following paper received an honorable mention award at the conference:
The paper collects first-person accounts, interview and questionnaire measures, on how several AIM and C4DM researchers used AI tools of their choice in their music making, contributing descriptions of how they reflected when using AI generated content.
AIM members Ashley Noel-Hirst and Corey Ford are also co-authors of the paper:
The paper explores how an AI tool trained on a Folk dataset is used and appropriated by musicians in the genres of both, as a playful way to explore Human-AI Interaction.
The 2nd international workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts is also run at the conference, co-organized by AIM members Corey Ford and Shuoyang Zheng. This workshop examines the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of explainable AI and the Arts, offering a critical view on the explainable aspects of Responsible AI and Human-Centred AI. With an accepted paper from AIM of:
- A Mapping Strategy for Interacting with Latent Audio Synthesis Using Artistic Materials by Shuoyang Zheng, Anna Xambó Sedó and Nick Bryan-Kinns.
The paper describes how mapping sketches to the latent space of the audio synthesis RAVE model can be used to support temporal and cross-modal aspects of explainable AI. See this paper alongside other proceedings at https://xaixarts.github.io/2024
Corey Ford is also on the organising committee as a chair for Student Volunteers.
We hope to see you all at ACM C&C!
On 1-2 July 2024, AIM PhD student Jiawen Huang will participate at the UK and Ireland Speech Workshop (UKIS 2024). The UK and Ireland Speech Workshop aims to bring together researchers within the UK and Ireland’s Speech Science and Speech Technology community, both in academia and industry. UKIS 2024 is organised by the Speech Research Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge in collaboration with the UK Speech Community. The below work will be presented at UKIS 2024:
On 4–6th July, several AIM PhD students will participate in the