Richard Savery

Publications

Book Chapters

Shimon Sings - Robotic Musicianship Finds its Voice

Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Music, Springer, 2021

A ConvNet for Ethical Robotic Musical Generation and Interaction

Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg

Artificial Intelligence & Creative Music Practice, Routledge, 2021

Peer Reviewed Journals and Conferences

Emotional musical prosody for the enhancement of trust: Audio design for robotic arm communication

Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

Before, Between, and After: Enriching Robot Communication Surrounding Collaborative Creative Activities

Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Creativity and Robotics, 2021

Machine Learning Driven Musical Improvisation for Mechanomorphic Human-Robot Interaction

Richard Savery

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021

Say What? Collaborative Pop Lyric Generation Using Multitask Transfer Learning

Naveen Ram, Tanay Gummadi, Rahul Bhethanabotla, Richard J Savery, Gil Weinberg

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2021

Robots and emotion: a survey of trends, classifications, and forms of interaction

Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg,

Advanced Robotics, Volume 35, 2021

Emotion Musical Prosody for Robotic Groups and Entitativity

Richard Savery, Amit Rogel and Gil Weinberg,

30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

Musical Prosody-Driven Emotion Classification: Interpreting Vocalists Portrayal of Emotions Through Machine Learning

Nic Farris, Brian Model, Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg,

18th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2021

Emotional Musical Prosody for the Enhancement of Trust in Robotic Arm Communication

Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction, Ro-MAN 2020

A Survey of Robots and Emotion: Broad Trends and Models of Emotional Interaction

Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg

29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2020

Robot Gesture Sonification to Enhance Awareness of Robot Status and Enjoyment of Interaction

Lisa Zahray, Richard Savery, Liana Syrkett, Gil Weinberg

29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2020

Shimon the Rapper: A Real-Time System for Human-Robot Interactive Rap Battles

Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’20

Awarded Best Student Paper

Emotional Musical Prosody: Validated Vocal Dataset for Human Robot Interaction

Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity

Mechatronics-Driven Musical Expressivity for Robotic Percussionists

Ning Yang, Richard Savery, Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2020

Long-Term Interaction and Persistence of Engagement for Musical Interaction using a Genetic Algorithm

Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’20)

Establishing Human-Robot Trust through Music-Driven Robotic Emotion Prosody and Gesture

Richard Savery, Ryan Rose, Gil Weinberg

28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Dehli, India, 2019

Soccer Sonification: Enhancing Viewer Experience

Richard Savery, Madhukesh Ayyagari, Keenan May, Bruce Walker

The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display, UK, ICAD 2019

Learning from History: Recreating and Repurposing Sister Harriet Padberg’s Computer Composed Canon and Free Fugue

Richard Savery, Benjamin Genchel, Jason Smith, Anthony Caulkins, Molly Jones, Anna Savery

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2019

Finding Shimi’s Voice: Fostering Human-Robot Communication With Music And a NVIDIA Jetson TX2

Richard Savery, Ryan Rose, Gil Weinberg

17th Linux Audio Conference (LAC-19), CCRMA, Stanford University, USA, 2019

Harriet Padberg: Computer-Composed Canon and Free-Fugue Renascence

Richard Savery, Benjamin Genchel, Jason Smith, and Molly Jones

Society for Music Theory 42nd Annual Meeting, Ohio, USA, 2019

Shimon the Robot Film Composer and DeepScore

Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg

Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity, Dublin, Ireland, 2018

An Interactive Algorithmic Music System for EDM

Richard Savery

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 10 (1), 2018

Dissertations

Machine Learning Driven Emotional Musical Prosody for Human-Robot Interaction

2021, Georgia Tech, PhD Dissertation

Algorithmic Improvisers

Richard Savery

2015, University of California, Irvine, Master’s Thesis

Industry Events, Presentations and Articles

Doctoral Consortiums

HRI Pioneers 2021

International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’20

OzCHI 2020

Deep Learning Applications for Video Game Music

Richard Savery

GameSoundCon, 2018

Listening in Improvisation

Santiago Guisasola, Richard Savery

Ethnomusicology Review 20, 2017

Interactive Computer Musicianship and Artificial Improvisers

Richard Savery

Eureka Music conference (UCSC), Santa Cruz, 2015