This first workshop on explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) brings together a community of
researchers and creative practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction …

An important open problem in Human Behaviour is to understand how coordination
emerges in human ensembles. This problem has been seldom studied quantitatively in the …

This article is a review of literature that conceptualizes the practice of collective free music
improvisation as a sociocommunicative endeavor, with its appended value and implications …

When engaged in music composition and improvisation, composers who are working
together may want to communicate in modalities other than sound since that is the primary …

To what extent and in what arenas do collaborating musicians need to understand what they
are doing in the same way? Two experienced jazz musicians who had never previously …

When musicians improvise freely together—not following any sort of script, predetermined
harmonic structure, or “referent”—to what extent do they understand what they are doing in …

There has been little research on how interactions with tabletop and Tangible User
Interfaces (TUIs) by groups of users change over time. In this article, we investigate the …

Existing experimental works on movement coordination in human ensembles mostly
investigate situations where each subject is connected to all the others through direct visual …

Our research considers the role that new technologies could play in supporting emotional
and non-verbal interactions between musicians during co-present music making. To gain a …

In this paper we explore the use of shared representations to support creative activities,
focussing on collaborative music making. We examine the effect that user interface features …