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Dr Ben Swift

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Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
20072022

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Dr. Ben Swift is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Cybernetics.

Ben is an internationally-recognised interdisciplinary scholar, electronic/computer music artist and creative technologist. He’s an expert in AI/machine learning, computational art & music, computing education, user experience (UX) design, and cybernetics.

He leads the Cybernetic Studio—a cybernetic community that makes things out of hardware/software/people/stuff to explore cybernetic systems and their impact on the world.

As a livecoding artist he has performed at international arts festivals, including the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and the International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC). He is also a founding director of the ANU Laptop Ensemble, an interdisciplinary computer music research and teaching collective.

Ben is a maker of open-source software tools for generative AI, music, creative code, data analysis/visualisation, and more. He’s one half of the core development team for the Extempore programming environment GitHub stars for musical livecoding. Extempore’s users are a worldwide community of programmers, artists, musicians, and data visualisation practitioners. He has more than 15 years’ experience as an OSS community manager, technical writer, software engineer and creative code outreach ambassador.

Education/Academic qualification

Computer Science, PhD, The Australian National University

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  • High Resolution and Labeling Free Studying the 3D Microstructure of the Pars Tensa-Annulus Unit of Mice

    Wu, J. P., Yang, X., Wang, Y., Swift, B., Adamson, R., Zheng, Y., Zhang, R., Zhong, W. & Chen, F., 8 Oct 2021, In: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9, 720383.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    4 Citations (Scopus)

  • Spatial anchor based indoor asset tracking

    He, W., Xi, M., Gardner, H., Swift, B. & Adcock, M., Mar 2021, Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 255-259 5 p. 9417665. (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2021).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    8 Citations (Scopus)

  • Camera Adversaria

    Browne, K., Swift, B. & Nurmikko-Fuller, T., 21 Apr 2020, CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 3376434. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    9 Citations (Scopus)

  • Disruption and creativity in live coding

    Attanayake, U., Swift, B., Gardner, H. & Sorensen, A., Aug 2020, Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020. Homer, M., Hermans, F., Tanimoto, S. & Anslow, C. (eds.). IEEE Computer Society, 9127204. (Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC; vol. 2020-August).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Eating computers considered harmful

    Browne, K., Swift, B. & Nurmikko-Fuller, T., 25 Apr 2020, CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 3381810. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    1 Citation (Scopus)
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