CC2017 Call for Papers

Important Dates

• Submission: January 13 (extended), 2017 @ 11:59 PM UTC -12:00
• Notification: March 3, 2017

Deadlines are specified as Anywhere on Earth time.

Papers Chairs

• Steven Dow, University of California, San Diego
• Aisling Kelliher, Virginia Tech

Call Description

Papers submissions address the impact of design and technology on individual creative experiences, as well as social and collaborative contexts. In all cases, we seek submissions that attempt to validate key contributions and feature data about how technology affects human creativity. The data can take many forms, including qualitative, quantitative, and sensory. Creativity and Cognition 2017 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. As in related conferences, 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

We invite high-quality research papers addressing innovative:

• Creativity support environments, that is, interactive computing systems designed to foster, promote, improve, and increase creative experiences, processes, products, and services.
• Studies of how computing systems, design, and/or technology impact creativity.
• Expressive artworks, in forms such as physical installations, online environments, or hybrid systems which creatively use computing to engage human experiences.
• Virtual and mixed reality environments designed to support, provoke, and express creativity.
• Games that generate 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.
• Studies evaluating creativity in diverse contexts, including work with underserved communities, longitudinal studies, and cross cultural contexts.
• Historical re-contextualizations that use theory from diverse fields to build new understandings of contemporary developments.

Format

Submissions can be full papers (up to 10 pages) or notes (up to 4 pages); references do not count towards the page limit. Both will be presented at the conference. Notes will receive half as much time. All submissions will be made through the Precision Conference web site and must use the two-column SIGCHI template for papers and notes (linked page includes templates for both Latex and Word). Papers must be submitted in PDF. The total size of all submitted materials, including a video figure, should not exceed 100 Mb. If you are unsure of what constitutes a well-formed paper, see the many examples in the ACM Digital Library for our conference.

Where to Submit

Precision Conference web site.

Video figures (optional)

Video figures may accompany a paper submission for the purpose of review. They are strongly encouraged but not required. The CHI and UIST guides to producing video figures are useful.

Anonymization Policy

All papers must be anonymized for review. Author and affiliation sections and credits must be left blank. Authors of accepted submissions will add this information in preparation of the "camera-ready" version. 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). 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 [10], ..."

Attendance Policy

At least one author of an accepted paper is required to pay the appropriate registration fee and is required to attend the conference in-person to present the work.

Questions

papers2017@cc.acm.org

Program Committee

Joel Chan	Carnegie Mellon University
Sally Jo Cunningham	University of Waikato
Audrey Desjardins	Simon Fraser University
Rebecca Fiebrink	Goldsmiths, University of London
Jason Freeman	Georgia Tech
Liz Gerber	Northwestern University
John Alexis Guerra Gomez	Yahoo
Eva Hornecker	Bauhaus-Universitt, Weimar
Julie Hui	Northwestern University
Giulio Jacucci	University of Helsinki
Sara Jones	City University London
Boriana Koleva	University of Nottingham
Ranjitha Kumar	Univerity of Illinois at Urbana
Andruid Kerne	Texas A&M University
Joy Kim	Stanford University
Moon-Hwan Lee	KAIST
Derek Lomas	University of California at San Diego
Brian Magerko	Georgia Tech
Mary Lou Maher	University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Narges Mahyar	University of California at San Diego
Ali Momeni	Carnegie Mellon University
Vicki Moulder	Simon Fraser University
Yukari Nagai	JAIST
Rogerio de Paula	IBM Research Brazil
Orit Shaer	Wellesley College
Kanya (Pao) Siangliulue	Harvard
Steven M. Smith	Texas A&M University
Erin Solovey	Drexel University
Andrew Webb	Texas A&M University
Anbang Xu	IBM Almaden