Conference Program
The detailed schedule below specifies assignment of talks to sessions. However, please note that order of talks within sessions is subject to change.
Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday
Monday, June 19, 2023
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | Federation Hall |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Workshop (Fictional Abstracts: Ethics, Sustainability, and Creative-AI Futures) | Federation Hall Columbia Room |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | Federation Hall |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Workshop (continued) | Federation Hall Columbia Room |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH | Federation Hall |
| 13:00 – 15:00 |
Tutorial (Why So Serious? Building Creative Systems with a Sense of Humour) Workshop (continued) |
Federation Hall Westmount Room Columbia Room |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | Federation Hall |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Workshop (continued) | Federation Hall Columbia Room |
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | Federation Hall |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome | Federation Hall |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Doctoral Consortium | Federation Hall |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | Federation Hall |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Doctoral Consortium (continued) | Federation Hall |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH | Federation Hall |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Steering Committee (invite only) | Federation Hall Westmount Room |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | General Assembly (invite only) | Federation Hall Westmount Room |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Book Release | Federation Hall |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | Federation Hall |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Keynote: Jessica Thompson Session Chair: Steve DiPaola |
Federation Hall |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Break | |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Conference Reception | Delta Hotel |
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | Federation Hall |
| 8:30 – 10:30 |
Paper Presentation #1: Language and Storytelling Session Chair: Rafael Pérez Y Pérez Have I Got Views For You! Generating Fair and Balanced Interventions into Online Debates Tony Veale On the power of special-purpose GPT models to create and evaluate new poetry in old styles Piotr Sawicki, Marek Grzes, Fabricio Goes, Anna Jordanous, Dan Brown, Simona Paraskevopoulou, Max Peeperkorn, and Aisha Khatun Monte Carlo Tree Search for Recipe Generation using GPT-2 Karan Taneja, Richard Segal, and Richard Goodwin Creative Data Generation: A Review Focusing on Text and Poetry Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao Are Language Models Unsupervised Multi-domain CC Systems? Robert Morain, Branden Kinghorn and Dan Ventura Tweetorial Hooks: Generative AI Tools to Motivate Science Tao Long, Dorothy Zhang, Grace Li, Batool Taraif, Samia Menon, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Sitong Wang, Katy Ilonka Gero, and Lydia B. Chilton |
Federation Hall |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | Federation Hall |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Keynote: Stacy Allison-Cassin Session Chair: Alison Hitchens |
Federation Hall |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH | Federation Hall |
| 13:00 – 15:00 |
Paper Presentation #2: Co-creativity Session Chair: Maya Ackerman The Emperor’s New Co-Author Dan Ventura Beyond Prompts: Exploring the Design Space of Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity Systems Zhiyu Lin, Upol Ehsan, Rohan Agarwal, Samihan Dani, Vidushi Vashishth, and Mark Riedl Focusing on artists’ needs:Using a cultural probe for artist-centred creative software development Luís Espírito Santo, André C. Santos, and Marcio Lima Inácio Differentiable Quality-Diversity for Co-Creative Sketching AI Francisco Ibarrola and Kazjon Grace Can Creativity be Enhanced by Computational Tools? Daniel Lopes, Jéssica Parente, Pedro Silva, Licínio Roque, and Penousal Machado Exploring post-phenomenological perspectives on creativity with GPT-4 Giovanni Lion What Makes Gameplay Creative? Brad Spendlove and Dan Brown Call for Critical and Speculative Design in Human-Computer Co-creativity: An Overview Study Hugh Xuechen Liu, Yuxuan Huang, and Jussi Holopainen Interactional Co-Creativity of Human and AI in Analogy-Based Design Michael Muller, Heloisa Candello, and Justin Weisz On the Notion of Creative Personhood Alison Pease, Simon Colton, and Berker Banar |
Federation Hall |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | Federation Hall |
| 15:00 – 17:00 |
Paper Presentation #3: Evaluation Session Chair: Janet Rafner A computer model to evaluate the coherence of characters’ behaviour based on their emotional relationships Rafael Pérez Y Pérez Reviewing, Creativity, and Algorithmic Information Theory Dan Brown and Max Peeperkorn On Characterizations of Large Language Models and Creativity Evaluation Max Peeperkorn, Dan Brown, and Anna Jordanous The Spectrum of Unpredictability and its Relation to Creative Autonomy Iikka Hauhio, Anna Kantosalo, Simo Linkola, and Hannu Toivonen Many Meanings of Intentionality: A Brief Disambiguation for Computational Creativity Simo Linkola and Iikka Hauhio Should we have seen the coming storm? Transformers, society, and CC Carolyn Lamb and Dan Brown Bias in Favour or Against Computational Creativity: A Survey and Reflection on the Importance of Socio-cultural Context in its Evaluation Ken Déguernel and Bob L. T. Sturm |
Federation Hall |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Industry Panel | Federation Hall |
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Friday, June 23, 2023
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | Federation Hall |
| 8:30 – 9:30 |
Paper Presentation #6: Interaction and Collaboration Session Chair: Kazjon Grace Recipe 2.0: Information Presentation for AI-Supported Culinary Idea Generation Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Samy Badreddine, Frederick Gifford, and Tarek R. Besold Interdisciplinary Methods in Computational Creativity: How Human Variables Shape Human-Inspired AI Research Nadia Ady and Faun Rice Stories Stay, Lessons Leave: Principles on AI Art from Photography Alayt Issak Closing Remarks |
Federation Hall |
| 9:30 – 18:30 | Excursion to Niagara Falls, Conference Lunch(return to either Waterloo or Toronto Pearson Airport) |
