Call for Papers, Posters and Demonstrations
Deadline for submission: 07th December 2014
General Information
ACM Creativity and Cognition 2015 invites papers investigating how interactive computing systems and sociotechnical processes affect creativity. We cherish creativity as a wonderful aspect of human experience, transformative and potentially transcendental. Creativity is the partner of inspiration, of moments when we seem to go beyond ourselves to reach new heights. Creativity is the font of innovation.
Creativity and Cognition papers address the impact of computing on individual creative experiences, as well as social and collaborative contexts. In all cases, we seek for the presentation of work to include forms of validation featuring data about people, in order to show how computing environments impact human creativity. The data can take many forms, including qualitative, quantitative, and visual. Creativity and Cognition 2015 will present papers addressing: (1) creativity support environments, (2) studies of technology, people, and creativity, and (3) creative works that utilize computing to engage, stimulate, and provoke human experience.
We see research on the impact of computing on creativity not as a fledgling field, in which methodologies are unknown and uncertain, but rather as having reached a relatively mature state, in which various diverse methodologies have been developed and applied. Methodologies and theories, while perpetually under development, are already quite viable.
As in the CHI conference, reviewers will be asked to focus on the significance of the submission’s contribution, originality and validity, the quality of the presentation, and the benefit others can gain from its results.
Topics
Creativity and Cognition 2015 seeks well-written research papers addressing innovative:
- Creativity support environments that are, interactive computing systems designed to foster, promote, improve, and increase creative experiences, processes, and products.
- Studies of how computing systems impact creativity.
- Expressive artworks, in forms such as physical installations and online environments, which creatively invoke computing to provoke human experiences.
- Virtual and mixed reality environments designed to support, provoke, and express creativity.
- Games that provoke open and creative forms of play.
- Investigations of curation practices, platforms, and environments, in contexts from everyday, to scholarly to museums.
- Research on collaboration and creativity.
- Studies of social media and how it promotes and/or impairs creativity.
- Roles for computing to support creativity in classroom environments, including but not limited to MOOCs and SPOCs.
- Roles for crowdsourcing and micro-task workers in creative processes.
- Roles for physical computing and maker/hacker culture in creative and expressive human experiences.
- Roles that aesthetics play in our experiences and understandings of digital/computational environments.
- New methodologies and theories for investigating the impact of computing on creativity, such as evaluation methodologies.
- Historicized recontextualizations that use theories from diverse fields to build new understandings of contemporary developments.
Submission Details
Submissions [Length / Format]
Papers submissions can be full papers or notes. Both will be presented directly at the conference; Notes will receive half as much time. Full papers are up to 10 pages. Notes are up to 4 pages. Use the two-column ACM SIGCHI format. Templates are available for Latex and Word. You must submit your paper as a PDF.
Papers and Notes will be submitted through the Creativity and Cognition Precision Conference web site. The total size of all submitted materials, including video, should not exceed 100 Mb. The CHI and UIST guides to producing good video figures are useful.
Video Figures
Video figures are an important means for demonstrating the efficacy of creativity support environments. Video figures are strongly encouraged, in support of paper submissions, but not required.
CHI Anonymization Policy
All papers PDFs and videos must be submitted anonymously for review. Author and affiliation sections and credits must be left blank. Authors of accepted submissions will address this in preparation of "camera-ready" copy.
We are using the ACM CHI Anonymization Policy of blind reviewing. We use a relaxed model that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. Authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper, as noted in the submission instructions (Note: changing the text color of the author information is not sufficient). Also, please make sure that identifying information does not appear in the document's meta-data (e.g., the 'Authors' field in your word processor's 'Save As' dialog box).
We do expect that authors leave citations to their previous work unanonymized, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account by the authors. Authors should cite their own work in the third person, e.g., avoid "As described in our previous work [10], ... " and use instead "As described by <Author Name> [10], ..."
More Information
If you have further questions about Papers for Creativity and Cognition 2015, contact the Papers Chairs, Andruid Kerne and David Ayman Shamma: cc2015papers at ecologylab.net.
Call for Workshops and Tutorials
An announcement will be made soon concerning workshops and Tutorials
CALL FOR ARTWORKS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCES and INSTALLATIONS
Deadline for submission: 2nd March 2015
General Information
We are calling for proposals for artworks, music, performances and installations to be presented in conjunction with the conference.
We are seeking a wide variety of artworks related to (but not limited to) the conference theme of `intersections and interactions’. The exhibition of these works will be juried and presentation of works will be integrated into the conference program, in either a concert format, art exhibition or co-located installation, depending on available resources and locations.
Formal proposals should be 2 pages in SIGCHI format (see ‘Submission’), and should include the elements listed below. The 2-page text of these submissions will be published in the conference proceedings, but appendices (eg. staging diagrams, scores, large photos) should be included as extra pages in the same pdf, and these extra pages need not follow SIGCHI format. For the proceedings the extra pages will not be published, only the formal 2-page submission will be published. Accepted submissions will need to be revised based on reviews and according to guidelines for camera-ready publication to be sent upon notification of acceptance.
For ALL SUBMISSIONS (ARTWORK / INSTALLATION / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS)
Submit 2-page PDF proposal in SIGCHI Format addressing the above following:
• Title of work.
• Clearly state the proposed performance.
• Name(s) of participants/submitters
• Short biography of artists/composers/performers/designers
• 150-200 word summary/abstract of work, designed for inclusion in a program.
ADDITIONALLY For MUSIC & PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS
• Provide any recordings or documentation of previous performances, or scores of the work (if they exist).
• List the number of performers and instrumentation (if necessary)
• List equipment (if any) to be provided by the conference organisers. Note that equipment availability is limited and significant unusual technical requirements may restrict the possibility of acceptance of the work unless detailed plans are provided.
ADDITIONALLY For ARTWORK & INSTALLATION PROPOSALS
• Provide any documentation of previous presentations of this work.
• Describe the space needed and the adaptability of the work. Information regarding available spaces will be posted on the website as it becomes available.
• List equipment (if any) to be provided by the conference organisers. Note that equipment availability is limited and significant unusual technical requirements may restrict the possibility of acceptance of the work unless detailed plans are provided.
• Locations that may be used for installations will be published on the conference website shortly.
We also invite ART WORKSHOP PROPOSALS to be presented on the day preceding the full conference (25th June 2015):
Workshops offer an informal environment for attendees with common interests and diverse perspectives to engage in rich discussions around works in progress or new areas of research and practice. Workshops can relate to, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference (see the Call for Participation for an overview), and are a good opportunity to explore a specialised interest or interdisciplinary topic with greater time for in depth discourse, debate and collaboration. Admission to workshops and tutorials will be charged separately from the main conference.
Submission Details
Submissions [Length / Format]
Use the two-column ACM SIGCHI format. Templates are available for Latex and Word. You must submit your workshop proposals as a 2 page PDF.
Artwork proposals will be submitted through the Creativity and Cognition Precision Conference web site. The total size of all submitted materials, including video, should not exceed 100 Mb. The CHI and UIST guides to producing good video figures are useful.
Graduate Symposium
An announcement will be made soon concerning the Graduate Symposium
Acceptances
To be updated
Past Conferences
Previous Conferences in this series may be accessed below:
