[AISWorld] Call for Participation: Workshop on digitally supported creativity at C&C15

[Peter Dalsgaard]

*Supporting Creative Design Processes in Blended Interaction Spaces*


*Workshop in connection to ACM Creativity and Cognition 2015, deadline June
3 *


Blended Interaction combine the virtues of physical and digital products
and systems. This approach is well suited for developing digital support
for creative work practices that acknowledge the benefits of current
analogue tools and practices, so that the desired properties of each are
preserved. This workshop will investigate how Blended Interaction Spaces
can support, augment and potentially transform creative work practices.
Specifically we examine the following themes to advance research on IT
supported creative practices:


*1. Individual and social creative activities*

While creativity research has historically focused on the individual
lone-genius creator that notion has recently been challenged by researchers
arguing for team-based creativity. We pose the thesis that the individual
vs. social creation dichotomy is artificial: real-life creativity almost
always takes place in both spheres, albeit at different times.


*2. Creativity methods*

A number of interaction design methods support ideation and creativity,
however, few traditional creativity methods are supported by digital means.
We wish to explore the potential for doing so, as well as discuss the pros
and cons of using digital tools to support creativity methods.


*3. Emergence and transformation of design ideas*

Design ideas often emerge from specific sources of inspiration, and are
shaped through negotiation and transformation mediated by design artefacts.
While ideation is central to the development of novel interaction concepts
that pervade the CHI community, little has been done to examine how
ideation and concept development can be supported via IT. Likewise, there
are few digital tools that can help researchers explore the emergence and
transformation of ideas through a design process and thus provide richer
data for understanding the creative process, which in turn could lead to
the development of more fruitful methods and tools to support it.


*4. Generative design materials*

Schön coined the term generative metaphors, generative in the sense that
"it generated new perceptions, explanations, and inventions". Based on
experiences from our own work, and supported by insights from the field of
creativity studies, we suggest extending the concept to generative design
materials, i.e. digital and physical artifacts that, when employed in a
design process, support the development and refinement of design concepts.


*5. Creativity constraints*

Leading creativity scholars argue that constraints are integral to the
creative process; in spite of this, research into constraints has been
limited and it will therefore be at the vanguard of future creativity
research. Although constraints act as obstructions in a process by
determining what cannot be done, they also give rise to new opportunities
and inspire creative breakthroughs.


*Submission*

We invite submissions of positions papers as 2-4 pages PDF documents
following the SIGCHI  research paper format.  Submissions need to address
the main topic of the workshop as well as one or more of the key themes
outlined above. Selection of participants will be based on the relevance of
the position papers with regards to the theme and key issues of the
workshop.


Please direct queries and submissions to Kim Halskov:  halskov at cavi.au.dk


*The submission deadline is extended to June 3rd 2015.*


At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for the
workshop:
https://cc15.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/creativity-and-cognition-2015


*Organizers*

Peter Dalsgaard  -- CAVI and PIT, Aarhus University

Kim Halskov -- CAVI and PIT, Aarhus University

Wendy Mackay -- in|situ|,  Universite Paris-Sud

Neil Maiden -- Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, City
University London

Jean-Bernard Martens  -- Concept Lab, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven


Website: pit.au.dk/CC_Workshop