Program

Individual papers: available through links in the program below.
Full conference proceedings: downloadable here as a single file (~100M).
Citations: available in bibtex format in this ICCC 2015 bibtex file.
Video recordings: available here.

Sun, June 28th – Computational Creativity & Games Workshop

Mon, June 29th – Conference Day 1

• 8:00 – Registration & Breakfast
• 9:15 – Opening
• 9:30 – Session 1: Creative Autonomy (Chair: Hannu Toivonen)
  • The man behind the curtain: Overcoming skepticism about creative computers (PDF)

    Martin Mumford and Dan Ventura

  • Generating Code For Expressing Simple Preferences: Moving On From Hardcoding And Randomness (PDF)

    Michael Cook and Simon Colton

  • Attributing Creative Agency: Are we doing it right? (PDF)

    Oliver Bown

• 11:00 – Coffee
• 11:30 – Session 2: Evaluation in the Arts (Chair: Anna Jordanous)
  • Using Human Computation to Acquire Novel Methods for Addressing Visual Analogy Problems on Intelligence Tests (PDF)

    David Joyner, Darren Bedwell, Chris Graham, Warren Lemmon, Oscar Martinez and Ashok K. Goel

  • Accounting for Bias in the Evaluation of Creative Computational Systems: An Assessment of DARCI (PDF)

    David Norton, Derrall Heath and Dan Ventura

  • Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks (PDF)

    Ahmed Elgammal and Babak Saleh

• 13:00 – Lunch
• 14:00 – Session 3: Creative Mechanisms (Chair: Oliver Bown)
  • Is Biologically Inspired Invention Different? (PDF)

    Ashok K. Goel

  • The role of blending in mathematical invention (PDF)

    Felix Bou, Marco Schorlemmer, Joe Corneli, Danny Gomez Ramirez, Ewen Maclean, Alan Smaill and Alison Pease

  • Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics (PDF)

    Tony Veale and Khalid Alnajjar

• 15:30 – Coffee
• 16:00 – Session 4: Language (Chair: Rafael Pérez y Pérez)
  • FIGURE8: A Novel System for Generating and Evaluating Figurative Language (PDF)

    Sarah Harmon

  • Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity (PDF)

    Tony Veale

  • OMG UR Funny! Computer-Aided Humor with an Application to Chat (PDF)

    Miaomiao Wen, Nancy Baym, Omer Tamuz, Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais and Adam Kalai

• 18:00 – Reception

Tue, June 30th – Conference Day 2

• 8:00 – Breakfast
• 9:00 – Session 5: Evaluation of Creativity (Chair: Ahmed Elgammal)
  • A Semantic Map for Evaluating Creativity (PDF)

    Frank van der Velde, Roger A. Wolf, Martin Schmettow and Deniece S. Nazareth

  • Human Competence in Creativity Evaluation (PDF)

    Carolyn Lamb, Daniel G. Brown and Charles Clarke
    

  • Measuring cultural value using social network analysis: a case study on valuing electronic musicians (PDF)

    Anna Jordanous, Daniel Allington and Byron Dueck

  • Conceptualizing Creativity: From Distributional Semantics to Conceptual Spaces (PDF)

    Kat Agres, Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver and Geraint Wiggins

• 11:00 – Coffee
• 11:30 – Session 6: Musical Interaction (Chair: Geraint Wiggins)
  • Player Responses to a Live Algorithm: Conceptualising computational creativity without recourse to human comparisons? (PDF)

    Oliver Bown

  • Collaborative Composition with Creative Systems: Reflections on the First Musebot Ensemble (PDF)

    Arne Eigenfeldt, Oliver Bown and Benjamin Casey

  • Generative Music for Live Musicians: An Unnatural Selection (PDF)

    Arne Eigenfeldt

• 13:00 – Lunch
• 14:00 – Session 7: Conceptual Blending (Chair: Tony Veale)
  • Generalize and Blend: Concept Blending Based on Generalization, Analogy, and Amalgams (PDF)

    Tarek R. Besold and Enric Plaza

  • Vismantic: Meaning-making with Images (PDF)

    Ping Xiao and Simo Linkola

  • The Good, the Bad, and the AHA! Blends (PDF)

    Pedro Martins, Tanja Urbancic, Senja Pollak, Nada Lavrac and Amílcar Cardoso

  • Using Argumentation to Evaluate Concept Blends in Combinatorial Creativity (PDF)

    Roberto Confalonieri, Joe Corneli, Alison Pease, Enric Plaza and Marco Schorlemmer

• 16:00 – Coffee
• 16:30 – Chairlift & Hike

Wed, July 1st – Conference Day 3

• 8:00 – Breakfast
• 9:00 – Keynote (Chair: Michael Cook)
  • Machine Improvisation on a Human-Authored Script: Beyond Versu (Abstract)

    Emily Short

• 10:00 – Session 8: Visual Arts (Chair: Ashok K. Goel)
  • Visual Information Vases: Towards a Framework for Transmedia Creative Inspiration (PDF)

    Britton Horn, Gillian Smith, Rania Masri and Janos Stone

  • The Painting Fool Sees! New Projects with the Automated Painter (PDF)

    Simon Colton, Jakob Halskov, Dan Ventura, Ian Gouldstone, Michael Cook and Blanca Perez­-Ferrer

• 11:00 – Coffee
• 11:30 – Session 9: Games, Music and Cocktails (Chair: Ruli Manurung)
  • Make Something That Makes Something: A Report On The First Procedural Generation Jam (PDF)

    Michael Cook

  • SMUG: Scientific Music Generator (PDF)

    Marco Scirea, Gabriella A. B. Barros, Noor Shaker and Julian Togelius

  • Generative Mixology: An Engine for Creating Cocktails (PDF)

    Johnathan Pagnutti and Jim Whitehead

• 13:00 – Lunch
• 14:00 – Session 10: Creativity Support (Chair: Kazjon Grace)
  • Stimulating and Simulating Creativity with Dr Inventor (PDF)

    Diarmuid O’Donoghue, Yalemisew Abgaz, Donny Hurley, Francesco Ronzano and Horacio Saggion

  • Casual Creators (PDF)

    Kate Compton and Michael Mateas

  • Interaction-based Authoring for Scalable Co-creative Agents (PDF)

    Mikhail Jacob and Brian Magerko

• 15:30 – Coffee
• 16:00 – Session 11: Imagination and Curiosity (Chair: Julian Togelius)
  • Imagining Imagination: A Computational Framework Using Associative Memory Models and Vector Space Models (PDF)

    Derrall Heath, Aaron Dennis and Dan Ventura

  • Preconceptual Creativity (PDF)

    Tapio Takala

  • Specific curiosity as a cause and consequence of transformational creativity (PDF)

    Kazjon Grace and Mary Lou Maher

• 17:30 – Session 12: Short Talks (Chair: Michael Mateas) [note: these abstracts are not part of the peer-reviewed, formal proceedings]
  • Learning large scale musical form to enable creativity (PDF)

    Francis Screene and Geraint A. Wiggins

  • Improved meaning in poetry using statistical methods (PDF)

    Max Droog-Hayes and Geraint A. Wiggins

  • A computational model of communication for automatically generating narratives (PDF)

    Ivan Guerrero Roman and Rafael Perez y Perez

  • Toward a Context Sensitive Music Generator for Affective State Expression (PDF)

    Marco Scirea, Julian Togelius, Peter Eklund

• 19:00 – Conference Banquet

Thu, July 2nd – Conference Day 4

• 8:00 – Breakfast
• 9:00 – Session 13: Co-creativity (Chair: Amilcar Cardoso)
  • Computational Poetry Workshop: Making Sense of Work in Progress (PDF)

    Joseph Corneli, Anna Jordanous, Rosie Shepperd, Maria Teresa Llano, Joanna Misztal, Simon Colton and Christian Guckelsberger

  • Interaction Evaluation for Human-Computer Co-creativity: A Case Study (PDF)

    Anna Kantosalo, Jukka M. Toivanen and Hannu Toivonen

  • Impact of a Creativity Support Tool on Student Learning about Scientific Discovery Process (PDF)

    Ashok K. Goel and David A. Joyner

  • Intentionally Generating Choices in Interactive Narratives (PDF)

    Michael Mateas, Peter Mawhorter and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

• 11:00 – Coffee
• 11:30 – Session 14: Language (Chair: Frank van der Velde)
  • “In reality there are as many religions as there are papers” -– First Steps Towards the Generation of Internet Memes (PDF)

    Diogo Costa, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Alexandre Miguel Pinto

  • A chart generation system for topical metrical poetry (PDF)

    Berty Chrismartin Lumban Tobing and Ruli Manurung

  • TheRiddlerBot: A next step on the ladder towards creative Twitter bots (PDF)

    Ivan Guerrero, Ben Verhoeven, Francesco Barbieri, Pedro Martins and Rafael Perez Y Perez

• 13:00 – Wrap-up and announcements