Professor at Nottingham’s Mixed Reality Laboratory. Director of the Horizio Centre for Doctoral Training. Author of Performing Mixed Reality (MIT Press)
Joined April 2009
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Thanks to @InstrumentsLab for inviting us to give a seminar at Imperial. We're looking forward to working with you on @EmbodyingAi !
Really enjoyed the Second UK AI Conference at Birmingham last week. Some neat talks and posters too and a chance to present Cat Royale to an AI crowd. Wonder what they made of it? @EmbodyingAi
Encountering HuggieBot at with artists Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat and Dr. Alexis E. Block who created it during her PhD research. Alexis tells me that hugs should last least twenty seconds. Luckily, HuggieBot is a very patient hugger.
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We are delighted to be part of this exciting new #creative project and playful performance installation led by #artists Lancel/Maat
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⭐️ New #OpenAccess #Research ⭐️
Benford, S., McGarry, G., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Gibson, R., & Martinez Avila, J. P. (2024). Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities. Journal of New Music Research
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#Design #Guitars #HCI #Relics #Music
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From strawberry-picking robots to safety-enhancing drones, 20th November will be a day to remember. 👏
What is UKRI AIR24?
The event will take 8 AI & Robotics startups and give them the chance to pitch their idea to investors.
Sign up here: lu.ma/wpyuaeb5
Honoured to give this joint lecture with Bob Sturm of KTH, Sweden on AI folk music at the University of Limerick’s World Academy of Irish Music and Dance youtu.be/0p3-bvTZtLI?si=qzFK… @EmbodyingAi
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Stuck for something to watch on TV tonight? Tune into @Notts_TV at 6/6.15pm to hear @profbenford talk about his @UKRI_News Turing #AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship 'Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI' @UniofNottingham @UoNComputerSci @UoNPressOffice
Our paper on how artists improvise and provoke robotics from the International Conference on Social Robotics. We’re reflecting on the distinctive role of artists in previous projects as preparation for new artistic collaborations in @EmbodyingAi .
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Major Congrats @profbenford ! - FYI he's advertising 3 assist/assoc profs, 3 postdocs & 3 phd studentships to work with him in the @TheOfficialMRL at @UoNComputerSci
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Prof Steve Benford has been awarded a Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship to lead research to help AI better enable humans to make meaning of the themselves and the world @UoNComputerSci @MakerCobot @HorizonDER @UKRI_News 👏
Read more here: ow.ly/nveb50TQQoM
I'm thrilled to have been awarded a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship ro explore "Somabotics: Creativeky Embodying AI" over the coming five years. nottingham.ac.uk/news/world-…
Three postdoc positions across soft robotics, creative AI, artist-led HCI and body-focused HCI at Nottingham as part of our new five-year UKRI-funded programme on Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI.
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Three new Assistant/Associate Professor posts at Nottingham in Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI
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Humanoid Robots - Are we finally on the crux of a breakthrough? @profbenford and @praminda discuss the realities and possibilities in @ConversationUK
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Do we need humanoid robots? Check out this article in @TheConversation by myself and @praminda. theconversation.com/elon-mus… @tas_hub @responsibleaiuk
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📢Kicks off in just a week "AI, Music and the Human Spirit"🎶Immerse yourself in inspiring keynote speeches and engaging conversations with @FERNANDOGARIBAY @alipantar and @profbenford on June 12th, 1-5pm @royalsociety #London
Book your free spot now- eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-music-…
Recorded this EP with my AI musical partner Leoric. Chat GPT said “Their music combines the organic warmth of folk with the expansive textures of electronic music, resulting in a genre-defying sound.” And it didn't even listen :-) What do you think?.
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The Project Team
@adx943 and Dr Kate Marsh @CDaRE_CU
@profbenford @praminda Feng Zhou, Paul Tennent @UniofNottingham Rachael Garrett and artists associated with @candocodance
Photography: Patrick Brundell
Dancer: Welly O’Brien
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A slew of major announcements from OpenAI and Google last week has us on the brink of human-like AI assistants. Is AI really getting smarter, or has the technology plateaued?
Dr Michael Pound @UoNComputerSci joins @France24 to tackle this question.ow.ly/Tjzt50RMYFk
