Assistant Professor
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
riedl@cc.gatech.edu

  
 
 

Digital Improv

The Digital Improv Project studio is a three-year long investigation into the roots of human creativity, as it relates to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Started in 2008, the Digital Improv Project studio will examine the cognitive functions of improv actors through the process of protocol analysis and behavioral coding. The end goal of this process is to establish an algothrium for creativity that can then be transferred to virtual characters. The proposed beneficiaries of this research will include AI specialists, game designers, and cognitive scientists.

ADAM Lab project website

Contributors

  • Brian Magerko, assistant professor, School of Literature Communication and Culture (Spring 2008 - present)
  • Kathryn Farley, Britton scholar, School of Literature Communication and Culture (Spring 2008 - present)
  • Ben Medler, graduate research assistant (Spring 2008 - present)

 
 
 

Related Publications

Brian Magerko, Waleed Manzoul, Mark Riedl, Allan Baumer, Daniel Fuller, Kurt Luther, and Celia Pearce. An Empirical Study of Cognition and Theatrical Improvisation. Proceedings of the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference, Berkeley, CA, 2009.

Brian S. Magerko and Mark O. Riedl. What Happens Next?: Toward an Empirical Investigation of Improvisational Theatre. Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, Madrid, Spain, 2008.