Conference Program | ACM Creativity & Cognition 2011

This program is preliminary and subject to change.

Day 0 – Thursday, November 3
Day 1 – Friday, November 4
Day 2 – Saturday, November 5
Day 3 – Sunday, November 6

Day 0 — Thursday, November 3

The tutorials, workshops, and graduate student symposium will be held in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) on the Georgia Tech campus (85 Fifth Street NW, Atlanta). The tutorials, workshops, and graduate student symposium will run in parallel from 9am to 5pm. Registration begins at 8:30am. Please see their individual websites for details.

Room Assignments

Tutorial 1: Designing with Human Memory in Mind — TSRB 125
Workshop 2: Being There, Doing It: The Challenge of Embodied Cognition for Design — TSRB 132
Workshop 3: Semi-Automated Creativity: Software as a Creative Collaborator — TSRB 133
Workshop 4: Beyond the Binding: Exploring the Future of the Book — TSRB 222
Graduate Student Symposium — TSRB 223

Day 1 — Friday, November 4

The main conference will be held at the High Museum of Art (1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta).

Registration begins: 8:30am

Time	Session
9:00am-10:20am	Session 1, Conference Opening, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Ashok GoelWelcome Keynote Introducer: Brian Magerko Keynote: Creative-Mindedness: When Technology Helps and When It Hinders, Guy Claxton
10:20am-10:40am	Coffee Break, High Museum Corridor
10:40am-12:00pm	Session 2: Learning, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Janet Kolodner Studying Medium Effects on Children’s Creative Processes Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee, Francis Quek, Xiao Lin Combining Concept Maps to Catalyze Creativity Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey Nickerson Kinesthetic Pathways: A Tabletop Visualization to Support Discovery in Systems Biology Andy Wu, Jung-Bin Yim, Eric Caspary, Ali Mazalek, Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Nancy J. Nersessian An Artistic Dialogue with the Artificial David Norton, Derrall Heath, Dan Ventura
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30pm-3:30pm	Session 3, High Museum Auditorium Creativity and Technology (Panel 1): Fiction Panel Moderator: Dan Ventura maybe make some change Aaron Reed A Reading of Skeleton Seas of Mare Incognitum: An Interactive Fiction Expedition in Curveship D. Fox Harrell, Nick Montfort Creative Gadget Design in Fictions: Generating Novel Object Types in Blended Spaces Boyang Li, Mark Riedl Public Art Session Chair: Jim Davies Performing Places Colombine Gardair, Patrick G.T. Healey, Martin Welton Post-it Note Art: Evaluating Public Creativity at a User Generated Art Installation Anijo Mathew, Yvonne Rogers, Peter Lloyd 40 Second Madness — Preview for Evening Poster Session (Part I)
3:30pm-3:50pm	Coffee Break, High Museum Corridor
3:50pm-5:10pm	Session 4: Design I, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Nancy Nersessian An Information-Processing Account of Creative Analogies in Biologically Inspired Design Ashok Goel, Swaroop Vattam, Michael Helms, Bryan Wiltgen Understanding Repair as a Creative Process of Everyday Design Leah Maestri, Ron Wakkary Traces in Creative Spaces Jelle van Dijk, Gerrit-Willem Vos 40 Second Madness — Preview for Evening Poster Session (Part II)
5:30pm-9:30pm	Conference Reception and Poster Session, High Museum Lobby
8pm-9pm	Tour of MOMA Exhibit at the High Museum: From Picasso to Warhol

Day 2 — Saturday, November 5

Time	Session
9:00am-10:20am	Session 5: Art I, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Yukari Nagai Enduring Interaction: An Approach to Analysis and Design of Gestural Interfaces in Creative Computing Systems Kenny K. N. Chow, D. Fox Harrell Keynote Introducer: Yukari Nagai Keynote: Music One Participates In, Atau Tanaka
10:20am-10:40am	Coffee Break, High Museum Corridor
10:40am-12:00pm	Session 6: Affect, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Mark Gross Temporal Integration of Interactive Technology in Dance: Creative Process Impacts Celine Latulipe, David Wilson, Sybil Huskey A Scale Model of Mixed Reality Evan Barba, Blair MacIntyre Audience Empathy a Phenomenological Method for Mediated Performance Greg Corness, Kristin Carlson, Thecla Schiphorst Tech Break Ups: A Research Tool for Understanding People’s Attachment to their Technology Elizabeth Gerber
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30pm-3:30pm	Session 7, High Museum Auditorium Creativity and Technology (Panel 2): Control/Improvisation Panel Moderator: Bryan Pardo Moori Haeyoung Kim RhythmSynthesis Ryan Raffa LOLC Jason Freeman, Sang Won Lee, Shannon Yao, Aaron Albin Shared Mental Models in Improvisational Theatre Daniel Fuller, Brian Magerko Collaboration Session Chair: Chien-Sing Lee NOOT: a tool for sharing moments of reflection during creative meetings Jelle van Dijk, Remko van der Lugt, Jirka van der Roest, Kees Overbeeke Designing Reality-Based Interfaces for Creative Group Work Florian Geyer, Ulrike Pfeil, Anita Höchtl, Jochen Budzinski, Harald Reiterer Creative Personal Projects of the Elderly as Active Engagements with Interactive Media Technology Vilma Lehtinen, Anu Kankainen
3:30pm-3:50pm	Coffee Break, High Museum Corridor
3:50pm-5:10pm	Session 8: Art II, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Lindley Darden Computing Harmony With PerLogicArt: Perceptual Logic Inspired Collaborative Art Nicholas Davis, Pramod Gupta, Shruti Gupta, Ellen Do Keynote Introducer: Alexandra Mazalek Keynote: Artists & Designers: An Experiment in Data Visualization, Sara Diamond
5:30pm-7:30pm	Art Reception and Art Exhibits, High Museum Atrium
7:30pm-9:30pm	Art Performances, High Museum Auditorium Master of Ceremony: Fox Harrell Moori Haeyoung Kim SoundPainter Celine Latulipe, Sybil Huskey, David Wilson, Melissa Word, Berto Gonzalez, Nathan Nifong, Adam Harris RhythmSynthesis Ryan Raffa Pictures at an Exhibition: a physical/digital puppetry performance piece Ali Mazalek, Michael Nitsche, Claudia Rebola, Andy Wu, Paul Clifton, Firaz Peer, Matthew Drake LOLC Jason Freeman, Sang Won Lee, Shannon Yao, Aaron Albin

Day 3 — Sunday, November 6

Time	Session
9:00am-10:20am	Session 9: Perception, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Andres Gomez da Silva Garza The Choreographer’s Notebook: A Video Annotation System for Choreographers and Dancers Vikash Singh, Celine Latulipe, Erin Carroll Distributed Creative Cognition In Digital Filmmaking Nicholas Davis, Boyang Li, Brian O’Neill, Michael Nitsche, Mark Riedl Using semantic similarity to predict angle and distance of objects in images Sterling Somers, Jonathan Gagné, Cesar Astudillo, Jim Davies Understanding Exploratory Creativity in a Visual Domain Kyle E. Jennings, Dean Keith Simonton, Stephen E. Palmer
10:20am-10:40am	Coffee Break, High Museum Corridor
10:40am-12:00pm	Session 10: Design II, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Rafael Perez y Perez The HCI Researcher as Artist and Designer: Approaches to Creativity and Distance Viveka Weiley, Ernest Edmonds Design and Evaluation of Creative and Emotional Motion Kaori Yamada, Toshiharu Taura, Yukari Nagai Design Space Exploration in Parametric System: Analyzing Effects of Goal Specificity and Method Specificity on Design Solutions Naghmi Shireen, Halil Erhan, Rodolfo Sanchez, Jelena Popovic, Bernhard Riecke, Rob Woodbury Exploring the Sensitivity to Representation of an Evolutionary Algorithm for the Design of Shapes Andres Gomez de Silva Garza
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30pm-3:30pm	Session 11, High Museum Auditorium Creativity and Technology (Panel 3): Physical Presence Panel Moderator: Jill Fantauzzacoffin Open House: Interaction as Critical Reflection Jack Stenner, Patrick LeMieux Pictures at an Exhibition: a physical/digital puppetry performance piece Ali Mazalek, Michael Nitsche, Claudia Rebola, Andy Wu, Paul Clifton, Firaz Peer, Matthew Drake Please Smile Hye Yeon Nam, Changhyun Choi, Sam Mendenhall Formally Modeling Pretend Object Play Alexander Zook, Brian Magerko, Mark Riedl New Frontiers Session Chair: Ellen Do The Rise of Personal Fabrication Catarina Mota Finding The Odd One Out: A Fractal Analogical Approach Keith McGreggor, Ashok Goel, Adam Hampshire How did Human Creativity Arise? An Agent-based Model of the Origin of Cumulative Open-ended Cultural Evolution Liane Gabora, Maryam Saberi
3:30pm-3:50pm	Coffee Break, High Museum Corridor
3:50pm-5:00pm	Session 12: Conference Closing, High Museum Auditorium Session Chair: Janet Murray Conference Awards Keynote Introducer: Ernest Edmonds Keynote: Social Discovery Framework: Building Capacity and Seeking Solutions, Ben Shneiderman Creative Communication Award Thank you and closing (Ashok Goel)