AI Projects

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AI at CAMD

Faculty in the College of Art, Media and Design (CAMD) have many opportunities to develop projects that engage with AI, whether it is in practice, theory or a combination of both. This showcase celebrates faculty projects involving or reflecting on AI across our different departments.

Faculty Projects

Below are various faculty projects related to artificial intelligence and/or incorporating it as a tool.

Generative Models Reveal Rhythmic Timescales in Music Listening

By: Arun Asthagiri and Psyche Loui To what extent do brain dynamics during music listening support contextual representations that serve continuous prediction?

Data Ark: Defining Provenance Frameworks for AI Training Data

By: Gloria Sutton While models depend on large-scale training datasets, there is currently little to no scholarly framework for documenting where those datasets come from and how they are assembled.

AI workflows for serious illness conversations in ED

By: Smit Desai, Menglin Zhao and Hasibur Rahman Serious illness conversations can align medical care with what matters most to patients, yet they rarely happen in Emergency Departments.

Vibe Check

By: Smit Desai and Hasibur Rahman Language has a peculiar power to make machines feel social—a phenomenon Weizenbaum observed long before today's LLMs.

Memory Box

Memory Box explores how older adults envision and value reminiscence therapy mediated by voice-based large language models.

Nine small images with schematic representations of differently shaped neural networks, a human hand making a different gesture is placed behind each network.

AI for research: a modular dissertation management system

By: David Dawson Investigating how working with AI can enhance administrative workflows for professional and academic work.

A young woman sitting in front of a computer in an office while another woman standing next to her is pointing at something on her screen. They are both dressed in casual clothes - a bright blue top and furry waistcoat, and a denim jacket.

On using LLMs for studying news coverage

By: Brooke Welles Generative LLMs like GPT and Claude are increasingly being used as content analytical tools, but how effective are they for frame analysis?

Traffic jam in the rush hour on highway bridge after an event has ended. Busy cars on bridges and roads in Siam Discovery in Bangkok Downtown, Thailand at night.

Global Mobile AI in Urban Life

By: Adriana de Souza e Silva This project examines how Mobile AI—artificial intelligence embedded in mobile devices and urban infrastructures—shapes everyday life.

Image shows a computer on the ChatGPT website. The page says "Introducing ChatGPT Plus."

Micro Lab for Experiential Learning with a focus on Ethics & AI

By: Sylke Meyer

Design for Social Change: Mitigating Bias in AI-Assisted Design

By: Paolo Ciuccarelli and Estefania Ciliotta Chehade This project is connected to the LUCID Framework, a project that imagines a scenario where the latent needs of users are automatically elicited from online content.