Macro Schedule
For more detailed information on event spaces please see the conference venue page.
| Day | Events |
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| June 19th | All full and 1.5 day workshops. MUME concert planned for the evening. Breakfast (8:00am), Lunch (12:10pm), and Refreshments (10:00am,2:45pm) served. |
| June 20th | All half and 1.5 day workshops in morning, along with all tutorials. Conference begins in afternoon followed by an opening reception in the evening. Breakfast (8:00am), Lunch (12:10pm), and Refreshments (10:00am,2:45pm) served. |
| June 21st | Full day of conference. No evening event planned. Breakfast (8:00am), Lunch (12:10pm), and Refreshments (10:00am,2:45pm) served. |
| June 22nd | Full day of conference. Conference banquet in the evening at the Center for Puppetry Arts. Breakfast (8:00am), Lunch (12:10pm), and Refreshments (10:00am,2:45pm) served. |
| June 23rd | Half day of conference and community meeting. Breakfast (8:00am), Lunch (12:10pm), and Refreshments (10:00am,2:45pm) served. |
Conference Program
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| Tuesday, June 20 | Conference Registration | 12:00pm-2:30pm | Pre-function Area |
| Introduction | 1:15pm-1:30pm | Chair's Introduction: Welcome to the conference! | |
| Roisin Loughran and Michael O'Neill. Application Domains Considered in Computational Creativity |
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| Foundations Session - Amilcar Cardoso |
1:30pm-2:45pm | Margareta Ackerman, Ashok Goel, Colin Johnson, Anna Jordanous, León Carlos, Rafael Perez Y Perez, Hannu Toivonen and Dan Ventura. Teaching Computational Creativity |
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| Dan Ventura. How to Build a CC System |
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| Refreshments | 2:45pm-3:15pm | ||
| Language Session - Pablo Gervás |
3:15pm-4:55pm | Tony Veale. Déjà Vu All Over Again: On the Creative Value of Familiar Elements in the Telling of Original Tales |
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| Khalid Alnajjar, Mika Hämäläinen, Hanyang Chen and Hannu Toivonen. Expanding and Weighting Stereotypical Properties of Human Characters for Linguistic Creativity |
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| Divya Singh, Margareta Ackerman and Rafael Pérez Y Pérez. A Ballad of the Mexicas: Automated Lyrical Narrative Writing |
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| Carolyn Lamb, Daniel Brown and Charles Clarke. Incorporating novelty, meaning, reaction and craft into computational poetry: a negative experimental result |
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| Wednesday, June 21 | Breakfast | 8:00am-8:45am | |
| Keynote | 8:45am-10:00am | Milena Fisher - Anna Jordanous to introduce |
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| Refreshments | 10:00am-10:30am | ||
| Combinatorial Creativity Session - Rafael Pérez y Pérez |
10:30am-12:10pm | João Cunha, João Gonçalves, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado and F. Amílcar Cardoso. A Pig, an Angel and a Cactus Walk Into a Blender: A Descriptive Approach to Visual Blending |
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| Ahmed Elgammal, Bingchen Liu, Mohamed Elhoseiny and Marian Mazzone. CAN: Creative Adversarial Networks: Generating "Art" by Learning About Styles and Deviating from Style Norms |
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| Álvaro Amorin, Luís Fabrício Góes, Alysson Silva and Celso França. Creative Flavor Pairing: Using RDC Metric to Generate and Assess Ingredients Combinations |
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| João Gonçalves, Pedro Martins and Amílcar Cardoso. Blend City, BlendVille |
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| Lunch | 12:10pm-1:30pm | ||
| Music Session - Arne Eigenfeldt |
1:30pm-2:45pm | Daniel Johnson, Robert Keller and Nicholas Weintraut. Learning to Create Jazz Melodies Using a Product of Experts |
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| Mason Bretan, Gil Weinberg and Larry Heck. A Unit Selection Methodology for Music Generation using Deep Neural Networks |
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| Sarah Harmon. Narrative-inspired Generation of Ambient Music |
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| Refreshments | 2:45pm-3:15pm | ||
| Design Panel | 3:15pm-4:55pm | Mark J. Nelson, Swen Gaudl, Simon Colton, Edward J. Powley, Blanca Perez Ferrer, Rob Saunders, Peter Ivey and Michael Cook. Fluidic Games in Cultural Contexts |
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| Liam Bray, Oliver Bown and Benjamin Carey. How Can We Deal With The Design Principle Of Visibility In Highly Encapsulated Computationally Creative Systems |
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| Thursday, June 22 | Breakfast | 8:00am-8:45am | |
| Short Talks - Geraint Wiggins |
8:45am-10:00am | Pedro Lucas and Carlos Martinho. Stay Awhile and Listen to 3Buddy, a Co-creative Level Design Support Tool |
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| Paul Bodily, Benjamin Bay and Dan Ventura. Computational Creativity via Human-Level Concept Learning |
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| Tom White and Ian Loh. Generating Animations by Sketching in Conceptual Space |
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| Ahmed Khalifa, Gabriella A. B. Barros and Julian Togelius. DeepTingle |
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| Oscar Puerto and David Thue. A Model of Inter-musician Communication for Artificial Musical Intelligence |
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| Arne Eigenfeldt, Oliver Bown, Andrew Brown and Toby Gifford. Distributed Musical Decision-making in an Ensemble of Musebots: Dramatic Changes and Endings |
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| Todd Pickering and Anna Jordanous. Applying Narrative Theory to Aid Unexpectedness in a Self-Evaluative Story Generation System |
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| Agnese Augello, Emanuele Cipolla, Ignazio Infantino, Giovanni Pilato, Adriano Manfrè and Filippo Vella. Creative Robot Dance with Variational Encoder |
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| Benjamin Bay, Paul Bodily and Dan Ventura. Text Transformation Via Constraints and Word Embedding |
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| Refreshments | 10:00am-10:30am | ||
| Poster Session | 10:30am-12:10pm | ||
| Lunch | 12:10pm-1:30pm | ||
| Co-creativity Session - Ollie Bown |
1:30pm-2:45pm | Kunwar Yashraj Singh, Nicholas Davis, Chih-Pin Hsiao, Ricardo Macias, Brenda Lin and Brian Magerko. Unified Classification and Generation Networks for Co-Creative Systems |
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| Anna Jordanous. Co-creativity and perceptions of computational agents in co-creativity |
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| Tesca Fitzgerald, Ashok Goel and Andrea Thomaz. Human-Robot Co-Creativity: Task Transfer on a Spectrum of Similarity |
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| Refreshments | 2:45pm-3:15pm | ||
| Discovery Panel | 3:15pm-4:55pm | Yalemisew Abgaz, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Donny Hurley, Ehtzaz Chaudhry and Jian Jun Zhang. Characteristics of Pro-c Analogies and Blends between Research Publications |
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| Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher, Maryam Mohseni and Rafael Perez Y Perez. Encouraging p-creative behaviour with computational curiosity |
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| Friday, June 23 | Breakfast | 8:00am-8:45am | |
| Keynote | 8:45am-10:00am | Gil Weinberg - Ashok Goel to introduce |
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| Refreshments | 10:00am-10:30am | ||
| Philosophical and psychological perspectives Session - Alison Pease |
10:30am-12:10pm | Simo Linkola, Anna Kantosalo, Tomi Männistö and Hannu Toivonen. Aspects of Self-awareness: An Anatomy of Metacreative Systems |
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| Wendy Aguilar and Rafael Pérez Y Pérez. Early-creative behavior: the first manifestations of creativity in a developmental agent |
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| James Hodson. The Creative Machine |
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| Christian Guckelsberger, Christoph Salge and Simon Colton. Addressing the "Why?" in Computational Creativity: A Non-Anthropocentric, Minimal Model of Intentional Creative Agency |
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| Lunch | 12:10pm-1:30pm | ||
| Community Meeting | 1:30pm-2:30pm | ||
| End of Conference |
