{"title":"Creative AI Futures: Theory and Practice","authors":"Mercedes Bunz, Eva Jäger, A. Milne, J. Zylinska","doi":"10.14236/ewic/eva2022.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2022.20","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses creative activity enabled by ML and recognised under the banner of ‘AI art’ or ‘creative AI’. The theoretical discussion is anchored in the critical reflection on the activities in which the authors have been involved as part of the Creative AI Lab, which is a collaboration between the R&D Platform at Serpentine Galleries and King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities. The paper proposes a 5C model (‘Creative – Critical – Constructive – Collaborative – Computational’), which brings together technical research and conceptual inquiry into AI art, while shifting focus from artefacts to their wider contexts, processes and infrastructures. It also outlines directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125903790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tackle Climate Change Through Art: A case study","authors":"F. D. Bartolo, Xavier Hautbois","doi":"10.14236/ewic/eva2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the creative process behind the creation of an audiovisual installation. Titled The Great Acceleration (2021), this installation is built upon scientific data simulating the retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf from 2015 to 2100. The dataset is the result of a computer simulation based on a scientific model provided by researchers from the Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE). The paper details the methodology used to offer a sensitive experience of climate change through the analysis of a large amount of data and the creation of generative audiovisual compositions. It describes the artistic approach and how the dataset related to the Ross Ice Shelf activity has been processed in order to create visual compositions and shape sounds. The paper also explains the relationship between these images and sounds and how they react to external outputs such as the presence and movement of visitors within an exhibition space.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130134121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandra I. Woolley, Tim Collins, Erlend Gehlken, Richard Rhodes, Mustafa Dhar
{"title":"Interactive 3D Viewer Interfaces for Virtual Museum Artefacts","authors":"Sandra I. Woolley, Tim Collins, Erlend Gehlken, Richard Rhodes, Mustafa Dhar","doi":"10.14236/ewic/hci2022.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2022.50","url":null,"abstract":"This paper accompanies an Interactions Gallery exhibit of interfaces to 3D artefacts at the 2022 BCS Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference. The exhibit introduces cuneiform, humankind’s earliest writing, showing visitors how the cuneiform script evolved over millennia and how web-based 3D viewer interfaces for cuneiform artefacts have evolved much more recently from a progenitor originally demonstrated five years ago at the 2017 BCS HCI Conference Interactions Gallery. Visitors to the exhibit will also see how the 3D viewer interface has been adapted for different purposes and how it continues to evolve in functionality","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126316592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Standard Testing Data Set in Privacy","authors":"A. Esposito","doi":"10.14236/ewic/odak22.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/odak22.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123220509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Language on Students’ Emotional States in Educational Games: A Comparative Study","authors":"Duha Awni Assaf, Dena Al-Thani, Bilikis Banire","doi":"10.14236/ewic/hci2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"Capturing students’ emotions while playing an educational game is one approach to assess their motivation towards learning. The language of educational games could serve as a motivating factor for players. This study compares two languages (Arabic and English) in an educational game to understand and compare the effect of the two languages on learning motivation via emotions. An experimental study was conducted with 30 Arabic-speaking students (Male n=13, Female n= 17) while playing an educational game in both Arabic and English languages, and their emotions were recorded. The result shows that participants express significant negative emotions (anger [p < 0.05], contempt [p < 0.05], and sadness [p < 0.05]) while playing the Arabic version of the game than the English version. indicating that participants preferred the English version. These findings suggest that emotion might help evaluate language preference in educational games development.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131684786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liveness for Contemporary Audiences: Developing online-togetherness in metaverse-theatre audiences","authors":"James Simpson, R. Foster","doi":"10.14236/ewic/eva2022.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2022.25","url":null,"abstract":"Liveness for Contemporary Audiences: Developing Online-Togetherness in Metaverse Theatre Audiences is a research project owned and carried out by Copper Candle. The project is funded by Innovate UK as part of the Audiences of the Future Round 2 – Design Foundations Fund. Our activities have focused on the experience of making digital/virtual theatre as creative producers of the work. Within this research we are asking, both of ourselves and of the practice, “what do contemporary audiences want?” Or more specifically “what do contemporary audiences want from live digital/virtual theatre?” And where can we look for insight? For us, this is the games industry. Our working assumption is that audiences do want to experience live virtual events, based upon a clear uptake on this offering within the arena of gaming.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125345574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Launch: Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sounds and Visualisations","authors":"Jonathan Weinel","doi":"10.14236/ewic/eva2022.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2022.8","url":null,"abstract":"Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sound and Visualisations (Weinel, 2021) is a new book exploring more than a decade of the author’s practice-led research composing sound and visualisations based on altered states of consciousness such as hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia (Figure 1). The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Sound series, edited by Prof. Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125394425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exeter Cathedral - A colour reconstruction for use in augmented reality devices","authors":"M. Khosravi, Rehan Zia, Jian Chang","doi":"10.14236/ewic/eva2022.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2022.6","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a digital craft-based approach for 3D colour reconstruction that utilises high-quality texture maps applied to low poly triangulated meshes for augmented reality applications. We present a case study based on a scanned 3D model of the Exeter Cathedral west front which was digitally painted to recreate the colours that had existed on the real building centuries ago. These colours were informed by previous research into remnant colour samples collected from the building stonework. The manual digital painting process based on a reference study of the actual colour samples from the building stonework allowed for a colour representation that is very close to the original colours that existed on the stonework. This project was developed to be used as an augmented reality application case study for the VistaAR project. In order to ensure optimal viewing experience, highly detailed textures were applied to low poly triangulated meshes that could be zoomed into by the viewer without compromising significant details ensuring a good immersive experience for the viewer.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116983678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structures of Emotion - An online demonstration of an emotion recognition process","authors":"Avital Meshi, Treyden Chiaravalloti","doi":"10.14236/ewic/eva2022.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2022.45","url":null,"abstract":"Structures of Emotion is an art performance that aims to examine the way humans and machines read and interpret emotional expressions. The work realises the difficulty of translating 'feelings' into words. We analyse the proprioceptive and cognitive complexity of emotion recognition, comparing human vs. computer vision’s biases while perceiving another person. Through this relationship emotions are reduced to a sensory input given by the subject's facial expressions. The relationship is mediated by a digital screen, which obstructs other biometric inputs that would otherwise be delivered in person. This ocularcentric, remote mode of communication has become a primary channel for social interactions.","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130696282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sideloading: An Exploration of Drivers and Motivations","authors":"Craig Goodwin, Sandra I. Woolley","doi":"10.14236/ewic/hci2022.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2022.37","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413003,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Workshops in Computing","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123868691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}