Program for the 2008 CreativeIT Program PI Meeting

CreativeIT Program PI Meeting Schedule

January 15-16, 2009

Arlington, VA

Information for travel funding reimbursement.

Thursday January 15

8:30-9:00 Session 1: Opening

Mary Lou Maher and others TBA - NSF

9:00-10:45 Session 2: Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Brian Magerko

Rapporteur: Dan Ventura

9:00 - 9:10: Ashok Goel
9:10 - 9:20: H. Quynh Dinh
9:20 - 9:30: Ruzena Bajcsy
9:30 - 9:40: Pat Langley
9:40 - 9:50: Debasis Mitra
9:50 - 10:00: Alan Bond
10:00 - 10:10: Jonas Braasch
10:10 - 10:45: Discussion by all

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-1:00 Session 3: CreativeIT Demos

(Sandwich lunch delivered at 12:00)

Mixed-Reality Applications without Tears: Tools to Support Creativity in Mixed-Reality Applications,Sheila Tejada, Simon Parons, and John Jannone
What Happens Next?: Toward an Empirical Investigation of Improvisational Theatre, Brian Magerko
Computational Modeling of Societal Factors in Creative Designing, John Gero and Ricardo Sosa
SEREBRO version 1.0, Noah Jorgenson, Frank Grove, Rose Gamble, Sandip Sen and Bradley Brummel
Social Immersive Media: Pursuing best practices for multi-user interactive camera/projector exhibits, Scott Snibbe
Tele-immersive System exploring collaboration with Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Virtual space, Ruzena Bajcsy, Klara Nahrstedt and Lisa Wymore
Design As Exploration: Creating Interface Alternatives through Parallel Authoring and Runtime Tuning, Scott Klemmer.
K-Sketch: A "Kinetic" Sketch Pad for Novice Animators, Richard Davis, Brien Colwell and James Landay
Pilot: A Robust Distributed Intelligent System for Telematic Applications, Jonas Braasch, Pauline Oliveros and Doug van Nort
Exploring Creativity through Humanoid Robotics and Dance, Youngmoo Kim, Paul Oh, Robert Ellenberg, and David Grunberg

1:00-2:45 Session 4: Creativity and Machine Learning

Chair: Mary Lou Maher

Rapporteur: Roger Dannenberg

1:00 - 1:10: Dan Ventura
1:10 - 1:20: Risto Miikkulainen
1:20 - 1:40: Hod Lipson
1:40 - 1:50: Andrew Barto
1:50 - 2:00: Selmer Bringsjord
2:00 - 2:10: James Reggia
2:10 - 2:20: Bryan Pardo
2:20 - 2:45: Discussion by all

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:45 Session 5: CreativeIT and Education

Chair: Tracy Hammond

Rapporteur: Scott Klemmer

3:00 - 3:10: Richard Gerrig
3:10 - 3:20: Bill Tomlinson and Eric Baumer
3:20 - 3:30: Tiffany Barnes
3:30 - 3:40: Ethan Danahy (Tufts University)
3:40 - 3:50: Jon Schull
3:50 - 4:00: Lee Spector
4:10 - 4:20: Wassim Jabi
4:20 - 4:35: Discussion by all

4:35-4:50 Break

4:50-5:50 Session 6: Presentation of Session Discussions

Friday January 16

8:30-10:30 Session 7: CreativeIT Environments and Tools

Chair: Jon Schull

Rapporteur: John Gero

8:30 - 8:40: Carlos Busso
8:40 - 8:50: Tracy Hammond
8:50 - 9:00: Aisling Kelliher
9:00 - 9:10: Yoshihiro Kobayashi
9:10 - 9:20: Colby Leider
9:20 - 9:30: James Lester
9:30 - 9:40: Youngmoo Kim
9:40 - 9:50: Robert Stone
9:50 - 10:00: Jodi Forlizzi
10:00 - 10:10: Scott Klemmer
10:10 - 10:20: James Landay
10:20 - 10:30: Katy Borner
10:30 - 10:40: Brad Myers
10:40 - 11:00: Discussion by all

11:00-11:20 Break

11:20-12:20 Session 8: Panel (Creative IT Research)

Panelists: Roger Dannenberg, Thanassis Rikakis, Tiffany Barnes, Gerhard Fischer
Creative IT Research Panel-Slides
Issues related to the need for definitions and methods that are relevant to CreativeIT research. This panel is loosely based on the following panel discussion submissions:

Evaluation and Objectivity in Creative IT Research
Do we need to define creativity?
Evaluation of Creativity
Increasing Participation and Sustaining the CreativeIT Research Community

12:20-12:30 Break

12:30-1:30 Session 9: Panel w/lunch (Creative IT Environments)

Panelists: Tracy Hammond, Ashok Goel, John Gero, Scott Snibbe, Winslow Burleson
This panel explores some of the emerging research topics that are causing us to rethink our understanding of creativity in the context of creativity support tools and environments. This panel is loosely based on the following panel discussion submissions:

We Have Lost the Back of the Envelope: Teach the Concept, not the Tool
Creative Combination and Analogy
Embodied Interactive Narrative
Creativity and IT as Integral Elements of Growing Creative-IT Communities

1:30-1:50 Break

1:50-3:20 Session 10: CreativeIT and Collaboration

Chair: Katy Borner

Rapporteur: Jodi Forlizzi

1:50 - 2:00: Sandy Baldwin
2:00 - 2:10: Pamela Jennings
2:10 - 2:20: Gerhard Fischer
2:20 - 2:30: Sandip Sen
2:30 - 2:40: Thanassis Rikakis
2:40 - 2:50: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
2:50 - 3:20: Discussion by all

3:20-3:40 Break

3:40-5:10 Session 11: CreativeIT and Human Creativity

Chair: Gerhard Fischer

Rapporteur: Sandy Baldwin

3:40 - 3:50: Todd Murphey
3:50 - 4:00: Winslow Burelson
4:00 - 4:10: Brian Magerko
4:10 - 4:20: Levent Yilmaz
4:20 - 4:30: Aditya Johri
4:30 - 4:40: Brian Bailey
4:40 - 4:50: John Carroll
4:50 - 5:00: Roger Dannenberg
5:00 - 5:10: Eric Nichols
5:10 - 5:30: Discussion by all