CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007
Seeding Creativity: Tools, Media, and Environments

June 13-15, 2007 Washington DC, USA http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/

Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: December 15, 2006
Author notification: February 19, 2007 Final formatted papers due: March 19, 2007

We cordially invite submissions focusing on creativity support tools for individual and group creativity, bridging among technology, science and arts to find common themes for user interface and new media design, and producing rigorous research with innovative designs and carefully conceived evaluations.

We welcome contributions from researchers, developers, practitioners, and policy-makers in many fields, including: computer and information scientists; diverse scientists, engineers, and architects; product, graphic, and interaction designers; writers, musicians, and new media artists; creative practitioners, corporate leaders, and educators; social scientists, ethnographers, and anthropologists.

CONFERENCE THEMES

The general focus of the conference is about cultivating and sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate computational support tools, digital media, and sociotechnical environments that not only empower our creative process and abilities, but also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles. Topics appropriate for submissions include, but are not limited to:

- Principles for interface, interaction & software design - Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods - In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses - Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice - Educational and training methods to encourage creativity with novel interfaces - Social mechanisms in support of creative communities and collaboratories - Emerging technologies, media, and approaches in the arts and creative practices - Transdisciplinary methods and collaboration models

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

Visit the conference website (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/) for details and instructions on how to prepare a submission. A special section of Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, will publish selected papers from CC2007. Additional requirements and reviewing procedures will be developed in cooperation with Leonardo's editors.