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Curiosity and Creativity Ph.D. Thesis Available Online
Curious Design Agents and Artificial Creativity Having recently graduated I decided to celebrate (after much drinking etc.) by putting my Ph.D. thesis online: "Curious Design Agents and Artificial Creativity" is now available to view on-line or download from my academic website: http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob The aim of my Ph.D. research was to develop a computational model of creativity focussing upon the roles of novelty and emergence in creative processes. During the course of my research I developed a computational model of curiosity using specialised neural networks called "novelty detectors". Using this computational model of curiosity I developed several "curious design agents" to demonstrate the ability of curious design agents to autonomously explore design possibilities and react to changing notions of novelty as design spaces were explored. In addition, I showed that the autonomous nature of curious design agents permitted models of social creativity to be produced where the notions of creativity applied by agents to other agents and artefacts are emergent properties of the simulated society. I hope you enjoy it. -RoB- | Rob Saunders 47 posts. Wednesday 27 March, 00:12 Reply
Broken Links The links to the PDF's come up with an error page from the University server. Am I doing something wrong, or is it you? I was really looking forward to reading it too ;) | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Wednesday 27 March, 19:55 Reply
Mea Culpa Alex, Thanks for pointing out the broken links. After posting the announcement I promptly broke all the links with one swift directory name change! That's what writing a Ph.D. thesis will do to your brain! Remember kids: "Just say no." ;-) Anyway, I've changed the directory name back and so I think all the links should be fixed again now and there shouldn't be any problems accessing the document files. -RoB- | Rob Saunders 47 posts. Wednesday 27 March, 22:08 Reply
Now available at Gamasutra I pleased to announce that Gamasutra (free registration required) is now hosting my thesis in their new education section at: http://www.gamasutra.com/education/theses/20020417/saunders_01.htm So if you find that my academic website is either down or too slow from your location you might want to try the above URL instead. -RoB- | Rob Saunders 47 posts. Thursday 18 April, 05:35 Reply