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Call for papers

INFORMATION SPACES FOR CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS

Tuesday 1st September, 2009.

In conjunction with HCI 2009, 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer  
Interaction, Cambridge, UK, 1 - 5 September, 2009.

http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/hci2009.html


The strategic importance of creativity has been acknowledged by many  
commentators, both at the international level - the Nomura Institute's  
proposition is that "Creativity will be the next economic activity,  
replacing the current focus on information" - and within the UK, where  
the Cox review, commissioned by the Chancellor in 2005, sees  
exploitation of the nation's creative skills as 'vital to the UK's  
long-term economic success'.

A fertile creative conversation, of the kind that might take place as  
part of a design process, requires many things, including a  
willingness and ability to quickly generate new ideas and to release  
less promising ones, a focus on evaluation and development of ideas  
and contributions rather than the personality or position of the  
proposer, and the possibility to revisit and change earlier decisions.  
This workshop will explore the extent to which technical and other  
artefacts and interventions can facilitate rather than inhibit such  
conversations, both in design practice and in learning situations.

We wish to support designers in engaging more flexibly and effectively  
in conversations that are characterized by both innovation and  
reflective, critical thinking, and that take place in both co-located  
and distributed settings. Key technological aspects of this support  
include the management and display of design information and critical  
feedback across a range of appropriate display surfaces; the capture  
in appropriate media - audio, video, still images - of significant  
design information; and the ability to replay, annotate and reflect  
upon such captured content. However, we are also interested in the  
social and procedural contexts in which such technologies may be  
deployed.


Workshop programme:

In the first half of the workshop, participants will make short  
presentations of their position papers. There will be an extended  
lunch break to enable sufficient opportunity for participants to get  
to know each other, and to peruse posters, videos and demonstrations.  
In the afternoon, participants will take part in a creative design  
workshop, facilitated by the organizers, which will develop ideas for  
future systems and artefacts that can support the kinds of creative  
design work discussed in the earlier presentations.

The organizers are exploring the possibility of publishing extended  
versions of selected papers in a journal special issue on the topic of  
supporting creative conversations. It is also hoped that workshop  
participants will collaborate in developing new research proposals on  
this topic.


Primary objectives of the workshop:

·   To provide an opportunity for HCI researchers and practitioners to  
share and learn from each other's experiences of developing and  
evaluating technologies that support creative conversations, both in  
design practice and in learning situations.

·   To exchange ideas about empirical and theoretical contributions to  
our understanding of the relationships between technological  
affordance and the structure of creative conversations.

·   To explore a space of technological and other support mechanisms  
for enhancing creative design.

·   To elaborate the challenges in providing technical and other  
support in this area.

·   To understand how these issues play out in different contexts,  
e.g., where teams are co-located or distributed.

·   To work towards an agenda for the development of new technologies  
in support of collaborative creativity.

·   To develop a community of HCI practitioners to take the agenda  
forward.


Participants may include:

·   Researchers studying creative design work as a collaborative or  
conversational practice

·   Design practitioners wanting to improve their own practice

·   Technology providers involved in the design of novel technologies  
to enhance creative activity in collaborative contexts

·   Educators with an interest in designing learning spaces to train  
reflective, creative design practitioners


Workshop co-chairs:

Sara Jones, Centre for HCI Design, City University,  [log in to unmask]

Bob Fields, Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex University, [log in to unmask]

Andy Bardill, Product Design Research Centre, Middlesex University, [log in to unmask]

Panayiotis Zaphiris, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus  
University of Technology, [log in to unmask]


Submission:

Potential participants are invited to send a position paper of up to  
two pages detailing their past work in this area, their perspectives  
on the challenges and approaches for overcoming them.

Submissions should be sent, by email, as an electronic document (in  
pdf, or MS Word) to [log in to unmask]


Important dates:

Deadline for submissions: Friday 1 May

Position paper Notification: Tuesday 12 May

Position paper final copy: Monday 17 August


Fees:

The cost of attending a workshop at HCI 2009 will be £80. There may be  
a discount on this fee for people also attending the conference. There  
is NO compulsion to attend the main conference, though this is, of  
course, recommended.


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+44 (0)20 8411 2272

Town Hall Room TG17

Interaction Design Centre
School of Engineering and Information Sciences
Middlesex University
The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BG, UK
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