{"648228":{"#nid":"648228","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Magerko, Computer Science Alumnus, Win ACM Best Paper Award ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA paper co-authored by\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor\u0026nbsp;Brian Magerko\u0026nbsp;and Mikhail Jacob,\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. CS\u0026nbsp;2019,\u0026nbsp;has\u0026nbsp;won\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;Best\u0026nbsp;Paper\u0026nbsp;Award from the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2021\u0026nbsp;for their work on creativity and artificial intelligence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper,\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Empirically Evaluating Creative Arc Negotiation for Improvisational Decision-Making,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;is the second\u0026nbsp;work for which\u0026nbsp;Magerko has won the\u0026nbsp;exclusive award in four years. At\u0026nbsp;most,\u0026nbsp;1% of submissions can receive a Best Paper Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper explores how to mediate a collaboration between\u0026nbsp;artificial intelligence\u0026nbsp;(AI)\u0026nbsp;and people so that the experience follows a creative trajectory,\u0026nbsp;enabling\u0026nbsp;computers to improvise more like humans in creative tasks.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research will likely be used in the development of an AI\u0026nbsp;learning companion for\u0026nbsp;Magerko\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;award-winning\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/earsketch.gatech.edu\/landing\/#\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEarSketch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;program, which teaches students to code through music.\u0026nbsp;Magerko, who is also LMC\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;director of graduate studies in Digital Media and director\u0026nbsp;of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expressivemachinery.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EExpressive Machinery\u0026nbsp;Lab\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;is co-PI on that project, along with School of Music Chair Jason Freeman.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJacob, who was the paper\u0026rsquo;s lead author, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/brian-magerko\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMagerko\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will present their work\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2021\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe virtual conference\u003C\/a\u003E, which is scheduled for June 23\u0026ndash;24, 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMagerko\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;first Best Paper Award\u0026nbsp;at the conference came\u0026nbsp;in 2017,\u0026nbsp;for the paper\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Creative Sense-Making: Quantifying Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creation,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;which was written in collaboration with a team of students.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELMC\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This is Magerko\u0027s second Best Paper Award. 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