All Outputs (4)

Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama (2021)
Journal Article
Lander, R. (2021). Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama. International Journal of Creative Media Research, https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2021.37

Lander offers a glimpse of the elusive holy grail for participatory dramatists; a way to offer audience members a role within the narrative and to give them genuine agency over events and even the outcome. He describes the use of a “conversational a... Read More about Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama.

Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show (2021)
Journal Article
Eagle, R., Lander, R., & Hall, P. D. (2021). Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 3(2), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs2.12018

I am Echoborg is promoted as ‘a show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI)’. The show demonstrates how AI in a creative and performance context can raise questions about the technology’s ethical... Read More about Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show.

Urban regeneration within the zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Cook, J., Lander, R., & Santos, P. (2016, April). Urban regeneration within the zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’. Paper presented at Digital-Cultural Ecology and the Medium-Sized City, Bristol, UK

The work reported in this paper explores the development of citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ in which social web technologies mediate urban regeneration in what we term the Zone of Possibility. The term ‘hybrid cities’ is not new and has been used in a si... Read More about Urban regeneration within the zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’.

Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion (2015)
Journal Article
Lander, R. (2015). Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion. Journal of Sonic Studies,

In 2010 I was struck by the real-life drama of Julian Assange and the leaking of secret documents by WikiLeaks. This was a story that broke across multiple sources – newspapers, radio, TV, government briefings, and WikiLeaks counter briefings. Then t... Read More about Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion.