--- NEW DEADLINE: January 12, 2006 (thu) --- Call for Participation: CHI2006 One-Day Workshop "Sketching" Nurturing Creativity: Commonalities in Art, Design, Engineering and Research http://www.kid.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/chi06-sketch-ws/ TOPIC: Identifying Commonalities of Creative Processes CHALLENGE: Characterizing "Soft" Aspects of Creative Processes APPROACH: Understanding the Sketching Process Theme and Goals: The workshop seeks to bring together researchers and prac- titioners from diverse creative practices such as interaction design, industrial design, architectural design, media art, music, programming, writing, and scholarly work, to gain insight into the creative process. Each of these disciplines has established ways to nurture a creative impulse through to a concrete result. This is done in part by fostering a con- tinuing internal dialog between creative instinct and exter- nal representations. Sketching is an activity common to the- se practices that is exercised during such creative refine- ment. By sketching, we mean not only hand-drawing on paper using a pencil, but also rapid, undetailed, brief, light, informal representations that practitioners produce and interact with. By investigating the sketching process in each practice, we expect to find commonalities that will to point out essential elements for designing tools to support the creative process. Important Dates: Deadline for 2-pager position paper: January 12, 2006 (new) Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2006 Workshop: April 23, 2006 For Details: http://www.kid.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/chi06-sketch-ws/ Organizers: Kumiyo Nakakoji (RCAST, University of Tokyo) Atau Tanaka (Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris) Daniel Fallman (Umea° Institute of Design, Umea° University) For inquiry: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------