Final
Call for Workshop Position Papers
"Using
Ambient Technology to Support the Social Creative
Process"
A Workshop
at the Second European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence,
www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~cspaw/EUSAIWorkshop.html
The
deadline is fast approaching.
Workshop position papers should be submitted by Friday 27 August
2004.
Many
researchers refer to activities such as design as creative processes, yet
provide little definition of what they mean by creativity or how people go about
being creative. Our research has
led us to viewing such activities as social creative processes, involving
communication and creative insight amongst a group of participants. During this workshop we intend to
develop an operational definition of what it is to be creative and explore how
ambient technologies can support the social creative
process.
Ambient
technologies are increasingly being proposed to develop environments to support
the creative process, such as in participatory design. However, participatory design practice
in general and these environments in particular tend to be founded not on theory
but on practical experience. Whilst
there is a great deal of value in practical experience, we propose developing a
theory of creativity as a basis for understanding and supporting the social
creative process of design. With
such a theoretical basis, we can begin to explain, predict and empirically test
how ambient technologies may best support creative
processes.
Key issues
that we wish to explore in this workshop include:
. What is
creativity?
. What is
the process of being creative?
. Can
ambient technologies support this creative process?
. How can
ambient technologies support this creative process?
. What
advantages and disadvantages exist in using ambient technologies over others
available?
. Can our
knowledge of creativity enhance the use of ambient
technologies?
. Can
ambient technologies give us a better understanding of
creativity?
We
anticipate a Special Issue of a journal resulting from the process and hope that
there will be other useful outputs.
To attend the workshop, please submit a 2 to 4 page position paper by Friday 27 August 2004. Position papers will be reviewed and participants will be notified of acceptance by Friday 3 September 2004.
Please format your position paper using the ACM SIGCHI Conference Template (http://www.chi2004.org/res/CHI04PubsFormat.doc) and submit it to the Workshop Committee ([log in to unmask]), details on the workshop website.
In order
to attend the workshop you must
have a position paper accepted.
If accepted to the workshop, please remember to register for
the Symposium at www.eusai.net.
For any
enquiries, see the workshop website or email the
workshop
committee - Andy Warr, Eamonn O'Neill, Hilary Johnson - [log in to unmask]