At the Machine Cohabitation Lab (cohab-lab.net), we prepare for a future living, working, and learning with machines. We explore intersections of human and machine perception, particularly how emerging technology impacts sites of intimate life. We develop modes of embodied experience and experimental human computer-interaction. Using AI, data science, and distributed computing workflows, we explore creative AI and augmentation of human imagination. With IoT and embedded, situated computing, we create smart homes and responsive environments. Through all, we seek insight into human imagination and perception, staging mutually revelatory encounters between humans and machines. We strive to deepen our understanding of emerging technology, cultivate perspective on what we ask our machines to do, and inform the design of our future.
People
Robert Twomey, Ph.D. Founding Director, Assistant Professor at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, UNL
Kylie Muller, Undergraduate Researcher on Embodied Code, Curriculum Design
Abraham Schaecher, UCARE Undergraduate Researcher on Generative AI, Data Science
Reid Brockmeier, Undergraduate Researcher on Generative AI, Digital Fabrication, Robotics, Embodied Code
Alumni
Emma Mirnics, Undergraduate Researcher with the Embodied Code Project
Caleb Kirilov, UCARE Undergraduate Researcher
Projects
Embodied Code: embodiedcode.net
Radio Play + Performative AI: radio-play.net
Generative Art + Empathy: see Schaecher's "Generative Art Based on the Input of Emotions", or the SDMA feature on "Art + Empathy Lab". Art+Empathy Website.
Artificial Imagination: (see POM performance)
Measurable Creative AI: mcreativeai.org (with collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University ML Department and Robotics Institute)
Smart Home / IoT / Experimental HRI: dissertation work at University of Washington;
Grants
- Embodied Code is supported by NSF Grant #2017042
- Edgeworks, NRI Core Research Facility (link)
- SPACE^2: Space, Policy, Agriculture, Climate, and Extreme Environment
- Art and Empathy is supported by a CAC Research in the Arts Grant
- NVIDIA Developer Program. HP Data Science Proof of Concept (Z8).
News
- Performance-Lecture on Embodied Intelligence at SLSA
- Paper on Real Time AI at SLSA 2023
- Atlas of Imagination Workshop at Clarke Center
- Speaking on AI at SD Innovation Day
- Paper in ACM PACMGIT
- Talk at SIGGRAPH 2023
- Radio Play at ISEA 2023
- SS4ES @ Water for Food Global Conference
- CTS on No Proscenium
- Cleaning the Stables in LA Times