The first Co-Creation Workshop (CCW2017) will be hosted at the International Conference on Computational Creativity on June 19, 2017. Co-creation is a new interdisciplinary research topic that asks questions related to human-computer interaction, computational creativity, and cognitive science. It investigates how two or more agents interact to produce emergent meaning and artifacts in a participatory process of meaning building (i.e. participatory sense-making). Collaboration is a powerful way to inspire and support human cognition. However, the same dynamism and flexibility that make collaboration and co-creation so effective, also unfortunately make it difficult to quantify, evaluate, and operationalize in co-creative agents. This workshop is designed to bring together researchers investigating technical, empirical, and theoretical aspects of co-creation to share insights on the unique challenges of this application domain.

We expect a mix of technical demo papers describing co-creative systems and empirical papers investigating co-creative systems or elements of co-creation, such as: agent-based interactive co-creation, mixed-initiative systems, towards intelligent co-creation, support for collaborative creativity, interaction modalities for co-creation, engagement principles for co-creation, simulation of co-creation, and models of co-creation. The workshop will emphasize engaging in hands-on co-creative activities and discussion to understand co-creation through shared experience using practice-based research methods. Attendees can expect to learn about new co-creative systems, research methods and tools for quantifying and evaluating co-creation, and cognitive theories to help understand and model co-creation. The workshop format will include: ~3 hours for participants to present submitted demo and research papers, an interactive demo session during which participants try out and discuss the co-creative systems, and a data analysis activity where participants use new research methods and tools to quantify their experience with the co-creative systems at the workshop.

Submission Guidelines

We invite participants to submit 2-4 page demo and research papers in the ICCC format (http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2017/call/) to be submitted via our EasyChair electronic submission site. Please click here to download ICCC author kit.

List of Topics

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Agent-based interactive co-creation
• Towards intelligent co-creation
• Mixed-initiative systems
• Support for collaborative creativity
• Interaction modalities for co-creation
• Engagement principles for co-creation
• Simulation of co-creation
• Models of co-creation

Organizing Committee

• Nicholas Davis: Georgia Tech, USA
• Chih-Pin Hsiao: Georgia Tech, USA
• Mary Lou Maher: UNC Charlotte, USA
• Celine Latulipe: UNC Charlotte, USA
• Ellen Do: Georgia Tech, USA
• Brian Magerko: Georgia Tech, USA
• Kunwar Yashraj Singh: Georgia Tech, USA

Venue

The conference will be held at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA. The all-day workshop will be held in Technology Square Research Building.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ndavis35@gatech.edu.