2nd Design Creativity Workshop

Important Dates

April 30, 2008

Submissions due

May 7, 2008

Notification of acceptance

May 30, 2008

Revised submissions due

Sunday, June 22 2008, 9:00am – 12:30 pm

Workshop

Call for papers:

Design is a challenging and comprehensive human activity where new products and systems need to be created in response to various users’ ever-changing demands for improved experiences and new functions while reflecting technical and socio-cultural situations. Thus designers’ creativity is essential in design activities. While creativity in general has been a subject of study in many disciplines including cognitive psychology and education, more specific study on creativity relevant to design and designers has been at the leading front end in creativity understanding. Also the nature of design would bring in viewpoints on creativity that might not be addressed in more general creativity research. Thus, we are interested in design creativity as a specific area of creativity and cognition.

The workshop will include an invited presentation to bring external stimulus on the workshop. Papers up to 6 pages will be accepted for presentation based on the reviews of the program committee. Topics and issues of interest include, but are not limited to: creative design and design creativity, characteristics of creative thinking in design, cognitive and computational models of design creativity, collaboration and design creativity, bio-inspired creative design, taxonomy of design creativity, tools for creative design, and design creativity education.

This workshop is sponsored by SIG - Design Creativity of the Design Society.

Workshop aim:

The goal of the workshop is to create a forum for researchers who are interested in design creativity to discuss both general and specific issues related to perspectives, concepts, approaches, models, and supporting tools for design creativity. Based on the success of the first Design Creativity Workshop held in June 2007, in this workshop we intend to broaden the participation and topics of discussion. 

Workshop Chair

Yan Jin, University of Southern California

(yjin@usc.edu)

 

Program Committee

Nathalie Bonnardel (U. of Provence, France)
 

Jonathon Cagan (Carnegie Mellon U., USA)

 

Yong Se Kim (Sungkyunkwan U., Korea)

 

Yukari Nagai (Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. &Tech.)

 

Steven Smith (Texas A&M U., USA)

 

Toshiharu Taura (Kobe U., Japan)
 

Kristin Wood (U. of Texas, USA)

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Workshop Position Papers

Workshop format:

This will be a half-day workshop on to be held on June 22nd, 2008. The format of the workshop is designed to encourage discussion and idea exchange. Workshop participants will be asked to read 2-3 papers of other participants before the orkshop. During the workshop sessions, the participants will be asked to lead the discussion of the papers they read by presenting the papers with 1-2 slides and initiating discussions with 3-5 bullet points.

Submission information:

Please submit your paper or to the workshop chair (yjin@usc.edu) as a PDF file.  The paper format is available as PDF and RTF files.

More details can found on the web: http://inspire.usc.edu/dcw08.  Papers and inquires should be emailed to the workshop chair at the follow address:

Yan Jin
Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California, USA
yjin@usc.edu 

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