Mr Corey Ford

Profile

Project Title:

Artificial Intelligence for Supporting Musical Creativity and Engagement in Child-Computer Interaction

Abstract:

Artificial Intelligence for Supporting Musical Creativity and Engagement in Child-Computer Interaction.

This research looks towards artificial intelligence (AI), and asks how can we design digital agents that adaptively provide pedagogical support with awareness of the affective and motivational context? Specifically, this project would evaluate such agents in terms of their capacity to support autodidactic use (child self-learning), and as an adjunct to classroom use, to aid generalist teachers in specialist creative domains (music/coding).

The objectives are:
- To study child interaction in digital music composition, as an example of creativity in context.
- To evaluate the ability of AI algorithms to find patterns of creativity within interaction data.
- To inform the design of an Intelligent Tutoring System for digitally supporting creativity.
- To evaluate children's engagement with Intelligent Tutoring Systems for music composition.

C4DM theme affiliation:

Sonic Interaction Design

Research

Research Interests:

I am a PhD researcher working within the intersection of Child-Computer Interaction, Music and Artificial Intelligence. My research is centred around designing intelligent agents for Codetta: a block-based digital musical interface, in order to support children's creativity in music composition.

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Education, Intelligent User Interfaces, Creativity, Machine-Learning, Pedagogy, Computational Creativity, NIME, C++, audio, music

Publications

• (2025). Explainable AI for the Arts 3 (XAIxArts3). Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3698061.3728392

  
  

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• Saitis C, Del Sette BM, Shier J et al. (2024). Timbre Tools: Ethnographic Perspectives on Timbre and Sonic Cultures in Hackathon Designs. Audio Mostly 2024 - Explorations in Sonic Cultures

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3678299.3678322

  
  

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• Bryan-Kinns N, Banar B, Ford C et al. (publicationYear). Explainable AI and Music. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1201/9781003406273-1

  
  

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• Bryan-Kinns N, Ford C, Zheng S et al. (2024). Explainable AI for the Arts 2 (XAIxArts2). Creativity and Cognition

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3635636.3660763

  
  

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• Bryan-Kinns N, Noel-Hirst A, Ford C (2024). Using Incongruous Genres to Explore Music Making with AI Generated Content. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3635636.3656198

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/97728
• Lewis M, Sturdee M, Lengyel D et al. (2024). Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction. Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3644069

  
  

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• Ford C, Cardinale S, Wiggins G (2023). Three Open Questions for the Design of AI for Music Composition. CHIME ONE DAY WORKSHOP 2023

  
  

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  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/94219
• (2023). Exploring XAI for the Arts: Explaining Latent Space in Generative Music. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.05496

  
  

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• Bryan-Kinns N, Ford C, Chamberlain A et al. (2023). Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts. Creativity and Cognition

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3591196.3593517

  
  

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• Ford C, Bryan-Kinns N (2023). On the Role of Reflection and Digital Tool Design for Creative Practitioners. Digital Skills for the Creative Practitioner: Supporting Informal Learning of Technologies for Creativity Workshop at CHI 2023

  
  

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  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/88820