The Foundations section compiles key theoretical frameworks, publications, cognitive models, and research trajectories developed by Nicholas Davis and collaborators across more than a decade of interdisciplinary research spanning:
co-creative AI,
computational creativity,
enactive cognition,
human-computer interaction,
participatory sense-making,
adaptive systems,
and human-centered artificial intelligence.
This section is designed to provide a structured introduction to the conceptual foundations underlying the broader research ecosystem surrounding:
Creative Sense-Making,
Enactive AI,
quantified co-creation,
human-AI co-creation,
and interaction-centered models of intelligence.
Rather than presenting isolated papers or disconnected essays, the Foundations section organizes the work into a coherent historical and theoretical lineage tracing how these ideas evolved through ongoing collaboration between researchers in computational creativity, cognitive science, design, and AI.
Many of the frameworks presented here emerged through early research on:
co-creative drawing systems,
participatory interaction,
creative trajectories,
and quantified collaboration dynamics
including projects such as:
one of the earliest co-creative AI systems designed to collaborate with humans in real-time artistic interaction.
Over time, this research expanded into broader investigations of:
interaction-centered AI,
explainable co-creative systems,
hybrid intelligence,
adaptive collaboration,
and enactive approaches to artificial intelligence.
The essays and publications collected here document the development of several interconnected ideas:
creativity as interaction rather than isolated generation,
intelligence as participatory and relational,
co-creation as a measurable interaction dynamic,
and AI systems as collaborative partners in shared processes of sense-making.
Together, these works contribute to an emerging paradigm in which artificial intelligence is understood not merely as computation or automation, but as a dynamic participant in human creative and cognitive activity.
What Is Creative Sense-Making?
History of Creative Sense-Making
What Is Co-Creative AI?
Human-AI Co-Creation
Enaction as a Paradigm for Co-Creative AI
Quantifying Co-Creation
Participatory Sense-Making in AI Systems
Enactive AI
Research Timeline
Publications