Uniting Behind an Idea: User Interfaces for Creativity and Cognition
Ben Shneiderman, General Conference Chair
The History of Creativity & Cognition
Ernest Edmonds, Creativity & Cognition Studios
Why Creativity?
Gerhard Fischer, Conference Program Co-Chair
Keynote Lecture: Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab
10:00 - 10:30
AM Break & Poster Setup
10:30 - 12:00
Session 1 - EDUCATION
Chair: Edward Shanken, Savannah College of Art and Design
Surprising Creativity: A Cognitive Framework for Interactive Exhibits Designed for Children Su Zheng, Adrian Bromage, Martin Adam, and Stephen Scrivener
Environments for Creativity - A Lab for Making Things Ellen Do and Mark Gross
Group Creativity in Virtual Math Teams: Interactional Mechanisms for Referencing, Remembering and Bridging Johann Sarmiento and Gerry Stahl
Propagating Collaboration: An Instructional Methodology for Artists and Engineers Elif Ayiter, Selim Balcisoy, Murat Germen and Selcuk Artut
12:00 - 2:00
Lunch & Posters/Demos
2:00 - 3:30
Session 2 - COLLABORATION MODELS
Chair: John C. Thomas, IBM Research
An In-depth Case Study of Art-Technology Collaboration Yun Zhang and Linda Candy
Using Empathy to Research Creativity: Collaborative Investigations into Distributed Digital Textile Art and Design Practice Cathy Treadaway
Performative Roles of Materiality for Collective Creativity Giulio Jacucci and Ina Wagner
Exact Imagination and Distributed Creativity: A Lesson from the History of Animation Michael Century
3:30 - 4:00
PM Break
4:00 - 5:30
Session 3 - CREATING AND SHARING
Chair: Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University
Spinning Stories: The Development of the ‘Small Histories’ Project as an Online Facilitator of Multiple Life Stories Stefan Schutt
Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation Axel Bruns
Media for Knowledge Creation and Dissemination: Semantic Model and Narrations for a New Accessibility to Cultural Heritage
Stefano Valtolina, Piero Mussio, Pietro Mazzoleni, Stefano Franzoni, Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni, Muriel Geroli and Cristina Ridi
Promoting Emergence in Information Discovery by Representing Collections with Composition Andruid Kerne, Eunyee Koh, Steven Smith, Hyun Choi, Ross Graeber and Andrew Webb
5:30 - 7:00
Hors D'Oeuvres
6:30 - 7:30
Buses leave for the Corcoran Gallery
7:00 - 9:00
Exhibit: "Modernism: Designing a New World: 1914-1939"
