Schedule
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Last update: January 8, 17:30
Thursday, 7 January
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Conference Opening
09:30 - 11:40 Music: Patterns and Harmony (Chair: Alison Pease)
Using Discovered, Polyphonic Patterns to Filter Computer-generated Music
- Tom Collins, Robin Laney, Alistair Willis and Paul Garthwaite
Live coding towards computational creativity (Short)
- Alex McLean and Geraint Wiggins
Realtime Generation of Harmonic Progressions Using Constrained Markov Selection
- Arne Eigenfeldt and Philippe Pasquier
11:40 - 11:55 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Visual Art (Chair: Rafael Pérez y Pérez)
Establishing Appreciation in a Creative System
- David Norton, Derrall Heath and Dan Ventura
A Step Towards the Evolution of Visual Languages
- Penousal Machado and Henrique Nunes
12:15 - 13:35 Lunch
13:35 - 14:55 Analogy and Metaphor (Chair: Pablo Gervás)
On the Role of Metaphor in Creative Cognition
- Bipin Indurkhya
Some Aspects of Analogical Reasoning in Mathematical Creativity (Short)
- Alison Pease, Markus Guhe and Alan Smaill
A Fractal Approach towards Visual Analogy
- Keith McGreggor, Maithilee Kunda and Ashok Goel
14:55 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:35 Stories (Chair: Simon Colton)
On Two Desiderata for Creativity Support Tools
- Wai Yeap, Tommi Opas and Narges Mahyar
Story Generation Driven by System-Modified Evaluation Validated by Human Judges (Short)
- Pablo Gervás and Carlos León
MEXICA-Impro: a computational model for narrative improvisation
- Rafael Perez y Perez, Santiago Negrete, Eduardo Peñaloza, Vicente Castellanos, Rafael Ávila and Christian Lemaitre
16:35 - 16:50 Show & Tell “madness” session
16:50 - 17:20 Invited Talk: Mary Lou Maher
17:20 - 17:50 Plenary Discussion
19:00 Reception at the Portuguese Parliament
Friday, 8 January
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address: Nancy J. Nersessian
10:00 - 11:00 Social Aspects (Chair: Rafael Pérez y Pérez)
Curious Whispers: An Embodied Artificial Creative System
- Rob Saunders, Petra Gemeinboeck, Adrian Lombard, Dan Bourke and A. Baki Kocabali
Elementary Social Interactions and Their Effects on Creativity: A Computational Simulation
- Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza and John S. Gero
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break (and Show & Tell)
11:30 - 12:30 Foundations (Chair: Penousal Machado)
Constructing conceptual spaces for novel associations
- Kazjon Grace, Rob Saunders and John Gero
Search Strategies and the Creative Process
- Kyle Jennings
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch (and Steering Committee Meeting – separate room)
14:30 - 15:50 Music: Creation/Generation (Chair: John Gero)
Automatic Generation of Music for Inducing Emotive Response
- Kristine Perry, Tony Martinez and Dan Ventura
Real-Time Emotion-Driven Music Engine (Short)
- Alex Rodríguez López, António Pedro Oliveira and Amílcar Cardoso
Tabla Gyan: An Artificial Tabla Improviser
- Parag Chordia and Alex Rae
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break (and Show & Tell)
16:20 - 17:40 Creativity Support: Tools (Chair: Joaquim Reis)
On the Impact of Chat Communication on Computer-Supported Idea Generation Processes
- Florian Forster, Marc René Frieß, Michele Brocco and Georg Groh
Development of Techniques for the Computational Modelling of Harmony (Short)
- Raymond Whorley, Geraint Wiggins, Christophe Rhodes and Marcus Pearce
On Two Desiderata for Creativity Support Tools
- Wai Yeap, Tommi Opas and Narges Mahyar
17:40 - 18:45 Dedicated Show & Tell Session
Automated Jazz Improvisation
Robert M. Keller
The Painting Fool Teaching Interface
Simon Colton
Generative Music Systems for Live Performance
Andrew R. Brown, Toby Giord, Rene Wooller
Realtime Generation of Harmonic Progressions in Kinetic Engine
Arne Eigenfeldt, Philippe Pasquier
The Continuator Strikes Back: a Controllable Bebop Improvisation Generator
Francois Pachet
Software Engineering Rewards for Brainstorming Online (SEREBRO)
Frank Grove, Noah Jorgenson, Sandip Sen, Rose Gamble
Piano prosthesis
Michael Young
A Visual Language for Darwin
Penousal Machado, Henrique Nunes
Using Computational Models to Harmonise Melodies
Raymond Whorley, Geraint Wiggins, Christophe Rhodes, Marcus Pearce
User-Controlling Expressed Emotions in Music with EDME
Alex Rodrguez Lopez, Antonio Pedro Oliveira, Amlcar Cardoso
Swarm Painting Atelier
Paulo Urbano
20:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 9 January
09:00 - 10:20 Creativity Support: Applications (Chair: Robert Keller)
Bisociative Knowledge Discovery for Microarray Data Analysis
- Igor Mozetic, Nada Lavrac, Vid Podpecan, Petra Kralj Novak, Helena Motaln, Marko Petek, Kristina Gruden, Hannu Toivonen and Kimmo Kulovesi
Domain Bridging Associations Support Creativity (Short)
- Tobias Koetter, Kilian Thiel and Michael Berthold
Measuring Creativity in Software Design
- Courtney Nelson, Bradley Brummel, Frank Grove, Noah Jorgenson, Rose Gamble and Sandip Sen
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break (and Show & Tell)
10:40 - 12:00 Music: Improvisation and Interaction (Chair Arne Eigenfeldt)
Clap-along: A negotiation strategy for creative musical interaction with computational systems
- Michael Young and Oliver Bown
A Fitness Function for Creativity in Jazz Improvisation and Beyond (Short)
- Anna Jordanous
Learning to Create Jazz Melodies Using Deep Belief Nets
- Gregory Bickerman, Sam Bosley, Peter Swire and Robert Keller
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 16:00 Evolution and Design (Chair: Paulo Urbano)
Experiments in Objet Trouve Browsing
- Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow, Pedro Torres and Paul Cairn
Evolving Expression of Emotions through Color in Virtual Humans using Genetic Algorithms
- Celso de Melo and Jonathan Gratch
The Evolution of Fun: Automatic Level Design for 2D Platforms
- Nathan Sorenson and Philippe Pasquier
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break (and Show & Tell)
16:30 - 17:30 Linguistics (Chair: Kyle Jennings)
Quantifying Humorous Lexical Incongruity
- Chris Venour, Graeme Ritchie and Chris Mellish
Defining Creativity: Finding Keywords for Creativity Using Corpus Linguistics Techniques
- Anna Jordanous
17:30 - 18:15 Plenary Discussion
18:15 Conference Closing