Jason Brent Smith

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About Me

Research

I am a researcher interested in Human-AI Cocreativity. I have conducted research in a variety of areas related to AI-supported creativity:

Teaching

My goal in teaching and research mentorship is to provide students with skills they can use in industry and interdisciplinary research with a constructionist, project-based approach.

Biography

I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. I work under Dr. Bryan Pardo at the Interactive Audio Lab in the Northwestern University Computer Science Department. I earned my BS in Music Engineering and Technology at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida in 2018. I earned my MS and Ph.D. in Music Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia in 2024.

Projects

Gestural Recognition & Human-AI Interaction

To explore how human musicians perceive the AI components of systems they use to perform, I developed multiple AI-based Interactive Music Systems as part of my dissertation titled "Human-AI Partnerships in Gesture-Controlled Interactive Music Systems."

Publications

EarSketch

EarSketch is an online learning environment for coding and music education that I contributed to as a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Tech and Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University. I contributed to two research projects:

EarSketch CAI

Georgia Tech and the University of Florida collaborated on research and development of an experiemental conversational agent, a Co-Creative AI (CAI), to support EarSketch users in writing code and music.
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Accessible EarSketch

Georgia Tech, Northwestern University, and the University of North Texas have collaborated on multi-stage research in making EarSketch more accessible for Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) learners.
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Prosthetic Limbs for Musicians

As part of the Georgia Tech Robotic Musicicianship Group, I assisted in the development of two prosthetic limbs for musicians:

Skywalker: Five-Fingered Control

Robotic Prosthetic Drumming Arm