Conference Program

Monday, June 17th 2019

Time	Event	Location
9:00am - 7:00pm	MuMe Workshop	Cone 111
10:00am -12:00pm	AM Coffee Break/Pastries	Cone 112
12:30pm - 02:00pm	Lunch	Cone 112
3:30-4:30 pm	PM Coffee Break/Veggies/Fruit	Cone 112
8:00pm	MuMe Concert	After Hours, Cone Bldg

Tuesday, June 18th 2019

Time	Event	Location
10:00am-12:00 pm	AM Coffee Break/Pastries	Lucas Room, Cone
8:30am - 5:30pm	Deep Learning Workshop	Cone 112
8:30am - 5:30pm	Doctoral Consortium	Cone 210
12:30pm - 02:00pm	Lunch	Lucas Room, Cone
3:30pm-4:30pm	PM Coffee Break/Pastries	Lucas Room, Cone
4:00pm - 7:00pm	General Assembly and Steering Committee Meeting	Cone 111
6:30pm - 8:30pm	Social Event	Boardwalk Billy's*

Day 1: Wednesday, June 19th 2019

Time	Event	Location
8:30am - 9:30am	Registration	Halton Reading Room, Atkins
9:00am - 9:30am	Conference Opening	Halton Reading Room
9:30am - 10:30am	Keynote: Rebecca Friebrink, Chair: Celine Latulipe	Halton Reading Room
10:30am - 11:00am	AM Break	Halton Reading Room
11:00am - 12:10pm Interaction and Co-Creativity Chair: Pablo Gervas	Toward Digital Progymnasmata Kyle Booten	Halton Reading Room
	Deep Learning in a Computational Model for Conceptual Shifts in a Co-Creative Design System Pegah Karimi, Mary Lou Maher, Nicholas Davis, Kazjon Grace
	[Late-Breaking] Brain-Controlled Musical Improvisation Rachel Goldstein, Andy Vainauskas, Margareta Ackerman, Robert Keller
12:10pm-12:30pm	Reports on Workshops and Competition (Kaz Grace)
12:30pm - 02:00pm	Lunch	Lucas Room, Cone
2:00pm - 3:30pm Evaluation and Appreciation Chair: Alison Pease	Read Me Like A Book: Lessons in Affective, Topical and Personalized Computational Creativity Tony Veale	Halton Reading Room
	Computational Analysis of Content in Fine Art Paintings Diana Kim, Jason Xu, Ahmed Elgammal and Marian Mazzone
	Learning to Surprise Razvan Bunescu and Oseremen Uduehi
	[Late-Breaking] Situated novelty in computational creativity studies Marija Majda Perisic, Mario Štorga and John Gero
3:30pm - 4:30pm	PM Coffee Break/Veggies/Fruit	Halton Reading Room
4:00pm - 6:00pm Poster Session Chair: Anna Kantosalo	"She Offered No Argument": Constrained Probabilistic Modeling for Mnemonic Device Generation Paul Bodily, Porter Glines, Brandon Biggs	Bioinformatics 218
	Mechanisms of Artistic Creativity in Deep Learning Neural Networks Lonce Wyse
	Theoretical Framework for Computational Story Blending: From a Cognitive System Perspective Taisuke Akimoto
	Analyzing art works: the six steps methodology Luis Fernando Gutiérrez, Rafael Pérez Y Pérez
	NONOTO: A model-agnostic web interface for interactive music composition by inpainting Théis Bazin, Gaëtan Hadjeres
	Neural Drum Machine: An interactive system for real-time synthesis of drum sounds Cyran Aouameur, Philippe Esling, Gaëtan Hadjeres
	Churnalist: Fictional headline generation for context-appropriate flavor text Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune
	Reshaping Design Search Spaces for Efficient Computational Design Optimization in Architecture Likai Wang, Patrick Janssen, Guohua Ji
	Emolift: Elevator Conversations based on Emotions Alejandro Oñate, Pablo Gervás, Gonzalo Mendez
	Culturally Specific Design Application: Computer Simulation of indigenous algorithm of a Cultural Creation Nyoman Dewi Pebryani, Michael Carlos Kleiss
	Duets Ex Machina: On The Performative Aspects of “Double Acts” in Computational Creativity Tony Veale, Philipp Wcke, Thomas Mildner
	The HR3 System for Automatic Code Generation in Creative Settings Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Michael Cook, Chunyang Chen
4:00pm - 6:00pm Art Demos Session Chair: Penousal Machado and Sarah Harmon	WanderGAN Eyal Gruss	Bioinformatics 217
	Pictures of J** Girls in Synthesis Eyal Gruss
	Algorithm as Determinant of Form in Music Halley Young
	Hidden Worlds J. Rosenbaum
	Fragile Pulse: A Meditation App Kyle Booten
	Emotion-driven Creative Music Composition in brAInMelody® Masayuki Numao
	Creative Sketching Partner: A Co-Creative Sketching Tool to Inspire Design Creativity Nicholas Davis
	Two Fragrances Designed for Brazilian Millennials David Apel
	Computational-Creativity Enabled One Pan Seasonings for Retail Sale Jing Fu
	ChordAL: A Chord-Based Approach for Music Generation using Bi-LSTMs Tan Hao Hao
6:00pm - 8:30pm	Reception	Bioinformatics 2nd Floor Foyer

Day 2: Thursday, June 20th 2019

Time	Event	Location
8:30am - 9:00am	Registration	Halton Reading Room
9:00am - 10:00am	Keynote: Lilla LoCurto & Bill Outcault, Chair: Mary Lou Maher	Halton Reading Room
10:00am - 10:30am LBP Session #1: Association & Blending Chair: Tony Veale	[Late-Breaking] Going into Greater Depth in the Quest for Hidden Frames João Gonçalves, Aaron Bembenek, Pedro Martins, F. Amílcar Cardoso	Halton Reading Room
	[Late-Breaking] Assessing Usefulness of a Visual Blending System: "Pictionary Has Used Image-making New Meaning Logic for Decades. We Don't Need a Computational Platform to Explore the Blending Phenomena", Do We? João Miguel Cunha, Sérgio Rebelo, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado
	[Late-Breaking] A Dynamic Approach for the Generation of Perceptual Associations Ana Cláudia Rodrigues, Penousal Machado, Amílcar Cardoso
10:30am - 11:00am	AM Break	Halton Reading Room
11:00am - 12:30pm Co-creative performance Chair: Dan Brown	MASSE: A system for music action selection through state evaluation Prashanth Thattai Ravikumar, Lonce Wyse	Halton Reading Room
	Affordance-based Generation of Pretend Object Interaction Variants ForHuman-Computer Improvisational Theater Mikhail Jacob, Prabhav Chawla, Lauren Douglas, Ziming He, Jason Lee, Tanuja Sawant, Brian Magerko
	Exploring Conditioning for Generative Music Systems with Human-Interpretable Controls Nicholas Meade, Nicholas Barreyre, Scott Lowe, Sageev Oore
	[Late-Breaking] Performing Structured Improvisations with pre-trained Deep Learning Models Pablo Castro
12:30pm - 02:00pm	Lunch	Lucas Room, Cone
2:00pm - 3:30pm Framing and Critique Chair: Amilcar Cardoso	Framing In Computational Creativity - A Survey And Taxonomy Michael Cook, Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Maria Teresa Llano	Halton Reading Room
	Summaries Can Frame, But No Effect on Creativity Leonid Berov
	Critique as Creativity: Towards Developing Computational Commentators on Creative Works (Position Paper) Douglas Fisher, Haerin Shin
	[Late-Breaking] Generative design in Minecraft: Chronicle Challenge Christoph Salge, Christian Guckelsberger, Michael Green, Rodrigo de Moura Canaan, Julian Togelius
3:30pm - 4:00pm	PM Break	Halton Reading Room
4:00pm - 6:00pm Creative Machine Learning Chair: Kaz Grace	Combinets: Creativity via Recombination of Neural Networks Matthew Guzdial, Mark Riedl	Halton Reading Room
	Trick or TReAT : Thematic Reinforcement for Artistic Typography Purva Tendulkar, Kalpesh Krishna, Ramprasaath Ramasamy Selvaraju, Devi Parikh
	Beyond Imitation: Generative and Variational Choreography via Machine Learning Mariel Pettee, Chase Shimmin, Douglas Duhaime, Ilya Vidrin
	Extending Creative Systems Framework for Analysis of Creative Agent Societies Simo Linkola, Anna Kantosalo
	[Late-Breaking] Shallow Art: Art extension through simple machine learning Kyle Robinson, Dan Brown
7:00pm - 9:30pm	Conference Dinner	Dandelion Market*

Day 3: Friday, June 21st 2019

Time	Event	Location
8:30am - 9:00am	Registration	Halton Reading Room
9:00am - 10:00am	Keynote: Nick Montfort, Chair: Rafael Perez y Perez	Halton Reading Room
10:00am - 10:30am LBP Session #2: Theory Chair: Mikhail Jacob	[Late-Breaking] Engagement-Reflection in Software Construction Quinten Rosseel, Geraint A. Wiggins	Halton Reading Room
	[Late-Breaking] Modeling Knowledge, Expression, and Aesthetics via Sensory Grounding Brad Spendlove, Dan Ventura
	[Late-Breaking] Exploring the Notion of Self in Creative Self-Expression Vikram Jamwal
10:30am - 11:00am	AM Break	Halton Reading Room
11:00am - 12:30pm Narrative and Poetry Chair: Mike Cook	TwitSong 3.0: towards semantic revisions in computational poetry Carolyn Lamb, Daniel Brown	Halton Reading Room
	Evolving the INES story generation system: from single to multiple plot lines Eugenio Concepcion, Pablo Gervás, Gonzalo Mendez
	Generating a Search Space of Typical Narrative Plots Pablo Gervás
	[Late-Breaking] Region Radio: An AI that Finds and Tells Stories about Places Douglas Fisher, Emily Markert, Abigail Roberts, Kamala Varma
12:30pm - 02:00pm	Lunch	Lucas Room, Cone
2:00pm - 3:30pm Metapapers Chair: Geraint Wiggins	Field Work in Computational Creativity Margareta Ackerman, Rafael Pérez Y Pérez	Halton Reading Room
	The Draw-A-Computational-Creativity-Researcher Test (DACCRT): Exploring Stereotypic Images and Descriptions of Computational Creativity Sarah Harmon, Katie McDonough
	The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains Alison Pease, Simon Colton, Chris Warburton, Athanasios Nathanail, Irina Preda, Daniel Arnold, Daniel Winterstein, Mike Cook
	[Late-Breaking] Opportunities for computational creativity in a therapeutic context Lee Cheatley, Wendy Moncur, Alison Pease
3:30pm - 4:00pm	PM Break	Halton Reading Room
4:00pm - 5:30pm Humour and Colourful Language Chair: Maya Ackerman	No Time Like the Present: Methods for Generating Colourful and Factual Multilingual News Headlines Khalid Alnajjar, Leo Leppänen, Hannu Toivonen	Halton Reading Room
	Modelling the Socialization of Creative Agents in a Master - Apprentice Setting - The Case of Movie Title Puns Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar
	Towards a General Framework for Humor Generation from Rated Examples Thomas Winters, Vincent Nys, Daniel De Schreye
5:30pm - 6:30pm	Community Meeting and Closing	Halton Reading Room
7:00pm - late	Informal Dinner on your own

Boardwalk Billy’s (University Location) is located off-campus at 9005 J M Keynes Dr #2, Charlotte, NC 28262
Dandelion Market is located off-campus at 118 W 5th St, Charlotte, NC 28202