[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Creativity and Cognition 2007 - conference and call for submissions

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Leonardo, as part of its collaboration with the Creativity and 
Cognition Studios of the University of Technology of Sydney 
(http://www.creativityandcognition.com) is pleased to bring to your 
attention:

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CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007
Seeding Creativity: Tools, Media, and Environments

June 13-15, 2007
Washington DC, USA
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/

Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI
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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: December 15, 2006
Author notification: February 19, 2007
Final formatted papers due: March 19, 2007

We cordially invite submissions focusing on creativity support tools 
for individual and group creativity, bridging among technology, 
science and arts to find common themes for user interface and new 
media design, and producing rigorous research with innovative designs 
and carefully conceived evaluations.

We welcome contributions from researchers, developers, practitioners, 
and policy-makers in many fields, including: computer and information 
scientists; diverse scientists, engineers, and architects; product, 
graphic, and interaction designers; writers, musicians, and new media 
artists; creative practitioners, corporate leaders, and educators; 
social scientists, ethnographers, and anthropologists.

CONFERENCE THEMES

The general focus of the conference is about cultivating and 
sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate 
computational support tools, digital media, and sociotechnical 
environments that not only empower our creative process and abilities, 
but also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles. 
Topics appropriate for submissions include, but are not limited to:

- Principles for interface, interaction & software design
- Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
- In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses
- Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice
- Educational and training methods to encourage creativity with novel 
interfaces
- Social mechanisms in support of creative communities and collaboratories
- Emerging technologies, media, and approaches in the arts and 
creative practices
- Transdisciplinary methods and collaboration models

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

Visit the conference website (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/) for 
details and instructions on how to prepare a submission.  A special 
section of Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the 
Arts, Sciences and Technology, will publish selected papers from 
CC2007. Additional requirements and reviewing procedures will be 
developed in cooperation with Leonardo's editors.