Publications
Partial Publication List
Book Chapters
Davis, N. 2024. Creative Sense-Making: A Cognitive Framework for Modeling Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creative AI. To Appear in AI, Co-Creativity, and Creativity. Routledge.
Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., Popova, Y., & Magerko, B. 2015. An Enactive Model of Creativity for Computational Collaboration and Co-creation. In Creativity in the Digital Age (pp. 109–133). Springer.
Journal Articles
Nitsche, M., Riedl, M., Davis, N. Creativity, Cognition, and Machinima. Animation Journal, 27. 50-66.
Davis, N. and Do, E.Y.-L. Understanding Artistic Creativity with Perceptive Sketching Tools. In Journal of Communication and Society, Special Issue on Creative Technologies.
Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., Singh, K.Y, Lin, B., Magerko, B. Quantifying Collaboration with a Co-Creative Drawing Agent. To appear in ACM TiiS Special Issue on Highlights from IUI ’16.
Conference Presentations with Proceedings (refereed and archived)
2011
Davis, N., Li, B., O’Neill, B., Riedl, M., Nitsche, M. Distributed Cognition in Digital Filmmaking. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 3-6, 2011, pp. 207-216. [*Won Best Student Paper Award*]
Davis, N, Gupta, P., Gupta, S. and Do, E. Y.-L. Computing Harmony With PerLogicArt: Perceptual Logic Inspired Collaborative Art. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 3-6, 2011, pp. 185-194.
2012
Boyang, L., Zook, A., Davis, N., Riedl, M. Goal-driven Conceptual Blending: A Computational Approach for Creativity. Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012, Dublin, Ireland, 2012.
Hsiao, C.-P, Davis, N., Do, E. Y.-L. Dancing on the Desktop – Gesture Modeling System to Augment Design Cognition. To appear in Proceedings for ACADIA, Synthetic Digital Ecologies, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 18-21.
2013
Davis, N, Zook, A., Riedl, M., Kirschner, F., & Nitsche, M. Evaluating Novice-Oriented Creativity Support Tools. In Proceedings for CHI 2013 Workshop on Evaluating Creativity Support Environments.
Hsiao, C.-P., Davis, N., Do, E. Y.-L. Sketch Master – A Sketch Game for Collecting Exploratory Data. In proceedings of ACM Creativity & Cognition 2013.
Davis, N., Zook, A., O’Neill, B., Headrick, B., Riedl, M., Grosz, A., & Nitsche, M. 2013. Creativity support for novice digital filmmaking. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 651–660).
Davis, N., Winnemöller, H., Dontcheva, M., & Do, E. Y.-L. 2013. Toward a cognitive theory of creativity support. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (pp. 13–22).
Sysoev, I., Chitloor, R. D., Rajaram, A., Summerlin, R. S., Davis, N., & Walker, B. N. 2013. Middie mercury: an ambient music generator for relaxation. In Proceedings of the 8th Audio Mostly Conference (p. 20).
Davis, N. 2013. Human-Computer Co-Creativity: Blending Human and Computational Creativity. In Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference AIIDE ‘13.
2014
Davis, N., Popova, Y., Sysoev, I., Hsiao, C.-P., Zhang, D., & Magerko, B. 2014. Building Artistic Computer Colleagues with an Enactive Model of Creativity. In International Conference on Computational Creativity. Ljubljana, Slovenia: AAAI.
2015
Swarts, M., Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., & Hallam, J. 2015. Sharing the lights: exploration on teaching electronics for sensory augmentation development. In Proceedings of the 6th Augmented Human International Conference (pp. 203–204).
Davis, N., Comerford, M., Jacob, M., Hsiao, C.-P., & Magerko, B. 2015. An Enactive Characterization of Pretend Play. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 275–284).
Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., Singh, K. Y., Li, L., Moningi, S., & Magerko, B. 2015. Drawing Apprentice: An Enactive Co-Creative Agent for Artistic Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference (pp. 185–186).
2016
Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-Pi., Yashraj Singh, K., Li, L., & Magerko, B. 2016. Empirically Studying Participatory Sense-Making in Abstract Drawing with a Co-Creative Cognitive Agent. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 196–207).
Li, R., Wang, Y., Hsiao, C.-P., Davis, N., Hallam, J., & Do, E. 2016. Tactile Teacher: Enhancing Traditional Piano Lessons with Tactile Instructions. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (pp. 329–332).
Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., Singh, K.Y., Magerko, B. 2016. Co-Creative Drawing Agent with Object Recognition. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment.
Singh, K.Y., Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., Jacob, M., Patel, K., Magerko, B. 2016. Recognizing Actions in Motion Trajectories using Deep Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment.
2017
Davis, N., Singh, K.Y., Hsiao, C.-P., Lin, B. Magerko, B. Quantifying Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creation. Accepted to ACM Creativity & Cognition ’17.
Long, D., Jacob, M., Davis, N., Magerko, B. Designing for Socially Interactive Systems. Accepted to ACM Creativity & Cognition ’17.
Singh, K.Y., Davis, N., Hsiao, C.-P., Macias,R. Lin, B., Magerko, B. 2017. Unified Classification and Generation Networks for Co-Creative Systems. Submitted to International Conference of Computational Creativity (ICCC ‘17).
2018
Karimi, P., Davis, N., Grace, K., & Maher, M. L. (2018). Deep learning for identifying potential conceptual shifts for co-creative drawing. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00723.
Karimi, P., Grace, K., Davis, N., & Maher, M. L. (2018, July). Creative sketching apprentice: Supporting conceptual shifts in sketch ideation. In International Conference on-Design Computing and Cognition (pp. 721-738). Springer, Cham.
2019
Davis, N., Siddiqui, S., Karimi, P., Maher, M. L., & Grace, K. (2019). Creative Sketching Partner: A Co-Creative Sketching Tool to Inspire Design Creativity. In ICCC (pp. 358-359).
© Nicholas Davis 2022