CALL FOR EXHIBITS, VIDEOS, PAPERS
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CREATE 2009
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1-2 July 2009
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
Boom or Bust: creating digital technologies in turbulent times
Create 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital
consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. This is the third year of
the 'Create' conference series.
This year, we are particularly interested in submissions from practitioners and academics
willing to share frank and open accounts of research and design practice beginning to be
shaped or influenced by the global economy and climate considerations. However, we
also welcome submissions related to the more traditional themes of this conference. How
do we work together as designers and HCI specialists to come up with people-centred
design, and how do we work with others to make our designs a reality?
We are looking for three different types of submission all of which will be peer reviewed
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Exhibits
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Installations or exhibits should be of a relatively small to medium scale and may include
documentation in the form of videos and posters to accompany them. We are particularly
interested in exhibiting: interactive products, interactive service design solutions, small-
scale interactive artworks, networked objects, screen based interactive media and
interactive installation pieces.
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Video papers
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We welcome submissions which follow the themes for paper or showcase submissions but
would benefit from a more visual presentation style. For example, this could be videos
illustrating or describing large scale installations that would not be technically or
physically possible to exhibit during the conference. We also welcome videos
demonstrating novel interactive artefacts that may be in the early stages of development,
project descriptions or creative visions of future interactive technologies.
Videos should be no longer than 7 minutes (including titles and credits) and should not
require any supporting material to be understood. It is very important that you have the
rights to use all the material that is contained in your submission. Successful submissions
will be required to submit a short 2 page paper which should also be possible to
understand without having seen the video.
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Short and extended papers
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We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial, public, government and
research sectors. Cases can come from any paradigm - the web, mobile and hand held,
or consumer electronics. Please outline the problems, capabilities, or new functions that
were being addressed, and describe the solutions you or your team created to resolve it.
We are particularly interested in receiving papers discussing issues related to recent
global events. We also welcome theoretical and research perspectives on the process of
design innovation and approaches to creativity in HCI; how human factors can be
integrated within a creative design process, methods that encourage creativity in
interaction design, and the challenges of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Initial submissions should be no more than 3000 characters (approx. 500 words).
Accepted papers can be either short papers 2 pages long, or be extended to long papers
of up to 8 pages.
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Key dates
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20 April 2009 - Closing date for abstracts and proposals
4 - 8 May 2009 - Author notification
25 May 2009 - Closing date for full papers and video papers
For more information and submission details go to
http://www.create-conference.org
CREATE is jointly organised by the Human-Computer Interaction Specialist Group of the
Ergonomics Society, and the British Computing Society's Interaction Specialist Group, and
will be held at the British Computer Society conference venue in Covent Garden, London,
on 1 - 2 July, 2009.
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/
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