The union of human experience and artificial intelligence (AI) through embodied interactions in music and everyday activities underscores a crucial gap in contemporary AI research: the mistaken segregation of body and mind. Our bodies influence our mental and emotional states, yet this interconnection is often overlooked in AI frameworks. The prevailing approach neglects the nuanced interplay between perception, environment, and action, important aspects revealed during the Embodied Perspectives on Musical Artificial Intelligence workshop at the University of Oslo. This event emphasized embodied cognition and its potential to revolutionize our interaction with emerging technologies.
This Research Topic aims to fortify the incorporation of embodied principles into AI, enhancing its responsiveness to human nuances across varied domains such as research, education, innovation, well-being, and arts. This initiative underscores the exploration of AI’s potential not just in technical terms but as a potent enhancer of human expressive capabilities, thus setting the stage for transformative interactions in our technology-driven era.
Towards a broader understanding and development of embodied AI applications, we prioritize the expansion of AI capabilities in understanding human emotions, creativity, and sensory-motor integration.
Contributions should focus on:
- Interdisciplinary Embodiment and AI: Adaptation of embodied principles using AI in various creative sectors.
- Sensory-Motor Integration in AI: Enhancing AI's interaction with human creative processes by synthesizing sensory perception and motor actions.
- Collaborative Creativity with AI: Elucidating symbiotic creation between AI and human endeavors in sound and music.
- Emotional Intelligence in AI: Augmenting AI's ability to engage with and react to human emotional states in artistic contexts.
- Ethical and Conceptual Reflections: Ethical debates and philosophical musings on integrating AI into human creative processes.
- Technological Breakthroughs: Innovations in machine learning, neural networks, and sensory integration that facilitate embodied creativity.
- Case Studies and Artistic Research: Insights and findings from experimental AI projects that illuminate the intersection of technology, art, and embodiment within AI systems.
These topics are intended to spur a multidisciplinary dialogue that bridges technology with humanity, furthering our understanding of how AI can enrich and empathize with human creativity through sound and music.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, machine learning, embodied cognition, sound and music computing, human-computer interaction, computational creativity, music AI, affective computing
Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
