Research

Grants:

National Science Foundation Award: “Participatory Sensemaking with Embodied Co-Creative Agents” funded via NSF’s Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation’s “Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus” Amount: 78,714.00,  2021 - 2024     

Awards & Appointments:

Faculty Research Champion in "Innovative Creativity", Kennesaw State University Office of Research, 2023 - 2024

Early Career Faculty Award, Kennesaw State University, College of the Arts, 2023

Recognition of Excellence in Research, Kennesaw State University, Office of Research, 2023

Presentations:

Implicit Knowledge, Explicit Data: Designing a Dance Avatar, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Dance & Data Conference, Chicago 2024

Expect the Unexpected: Improvisational Dance Collaborations, Kennesaw State University, Colege of the Arts Faculty Research Colloquium, 2023

Presentation of National Science Foundation Research, Computer Museum of America, 2023

Adapting the Unspoken: Improvisational Influences on Co-Creative Artificial Intelligence: National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), 2022 Conference

Adapting the Unspoken: Improvisational Influences on Co-Creative Artificial Intelligence: Kennesaw State University, College of the Arts Faculty Research Colloquium, 2022                    

Responsive Filmmaking: National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), 2021 Conference

Science as Process in Choreographic Research: Kennesaw State University, College of the Arts Faculty Research Symposium, 2019

Publications:

AI Meets Holographic Pepper’s Ghost: A Co-Creative Public Dance Experience.                    Milka Trajkova, Manoj Deshpande, Andrea Knowlton, Cassandra Monden, Duri Long, and Brian Magerko. 2023. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 274–278. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3596658

Observable Creative Sense-Making (OCSM): A Method For Quantifying Improvisational Co-Creative Interaction. Manoj Deshpande, Milka Trajkova, Andrea Knowlton, and Brian Magerko. 2023. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 103–115. https://doi.org/10.1145/3591196.3593514