Manoj Deshpande

About

I am a Ph.D. Student in Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Dr. Brian Magerko. I am a member and research assistant at the Expressive Machinery Lab. My research interests are at the intersection of design, human-computer interaction, cognition, and creative AI. My primary research focus is on designing and evaluating embodied co-creative AI within creative domains such as design, dance, drawing, storytelling, etc. Before Georgia Tech, I received MS in Architecture and MS in Information Technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where I conducted research on computational design and cyber-physical participatory systems under Dr. Dimitris Papanikolaou.

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Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology PhD
  2020 - 2024
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte MS
  2018 - 2020
• University of North Carolina Charlotte MS
  2018 - 2020

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Publications (6)

• Perceptions of Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creative AI: A Comparative Study of Interaction Modalities in Drawcto
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3635636.3656202
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• Video Segmentation Pipeline For Co-Creative AI Dance Application
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3658852.3659085
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• Embracing Embodied Social Cognition in AI: Moving Away from Computational Theory of Mind
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3650998
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• Exploring Collaborative Movement Improvisation Towards the Design of LuminAI—a Co-Creative AI Dance Partner
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642677
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• AI Meets Holographic Pepper’s Ghost: A Co-Creative Public Dance Experience
  2023 DOI: 10.1145/3563703.3596658
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• Observable Creative Sense-Making (OCSM): A Method For Quantifying Improvisational Co-Creative Interaction
  2023 DOI: 10.1145/3591196.3593514
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