Program

Accepted Papers

Long Papers

Reading Between the Lines: Can LLMs Discover the Question Behind the Text?
Claudiu Creanga and Liviu P. Dinu.
Assistance, Not Usurpation: LLMs as Catalysts for Human Originality
Roberto Gallotta, Antonios Liapis and Georgios N. Yannakakis.
Group Creativity with AI: The Outcome-Experience Paradox
Eran Barak-Medina.
Remember Me: Enhancing Long-term Character Persistence in LLM-Generated Stories using Knowledge Graphs
Alvin Tan, Jay Campanell, Richa Misra, Jessica Fu, Rida Faraz, Joel Walsh and Naina Panjwani.
World-Schema Alignment: Conditioning Data as a Compositional Strategy in Generative Audio
Frederick Rodrigues.
JEST: A Benchmark for Rating the Funniness of Short Texts
Joe Toplyn and Ori Amir.
IVIE: A Neuro-symbolic Approach to Incremental and Validated Generation of Interactive Fiction Worlds
Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago Góngora and Luis Chiruzzo.
Who’s driving? Exposing human self-deception in creative human-AI collaboration
Špela Vintar, Mojca Brglez, Damjan Popič and Jan Jona Javoršek.
Who Can Scan a Verse? Evaluating Open and Closed Language Models for Portuguese Poetic Scansion
Filipe Calegario and André Valença.
Theory as Architecture: Why Aesthetic Frameworks Should Constitute, Not Merely Evaluate, AI Art Systems
Atticus Sims.
Lessons Learned from Organizing a Literary Competition of Short Stories Co-created by Humans and AI Tools
Rudolf Rosa, Michaela Liegertová and Miloslav Linc.
Snap, Crackle and … Slop? Imbuing Generative AI with the Essence of Computational Creativity
Tony Veale.
Generative Rules as Design Material: Constitutive Agency in Co-Creative Evolutionary Knit Design
Severi Uusitalo and Anna-Mari Leppisaari.
God, Servant, Master or Friend? How AI metaphors shape the way Creative AI is built and used
Alison Pease, Maya Ackerman and Dave Murray-Rust.
Generominator: Operationalizing the Computational Creativity Ideation Cards “Generonimos”
Gabriel Bacon, Rosalind Dixon, Max Kluiwstra-Descalle, Audrey Ostrom, Alexander Sherbrooke, Thomas Wessel, Jiangyue Wu and Markus Eger.
What makes LLM-generated Answers Valuable for Research Problem Reframing?
Abhinav Sood, Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris and Kazjon Grace.
Artists’ Strategies to Circumvent Representational Biases and Censorship in Text-to-Image Generation
Mijntje de Groote and Piera Riccio.
Cognitive, Social and Creative Skills for Effective AI Humor Generation
Lydia Chilton and Sean Kim.
Creative Transformation in Literary Texts: Modelling Change Across Representational Levels
Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu and Liviu P. Dinu.
A Process-centric Evaluation of Modern Generative AI As Computational Creativity
Dan Ventura.
Activation Steering for Creative Estrangement: Generating Evocative Narrative Through Controlled Disruption of Language Models
Olga Vechtomova, Greg French, Xavier Schneider, Olivier Poulin and Jeff Bos.
Digital Weight: Towards an Ecological Evaluation Layer for Generative AI in Computational Creativity
Jekaterina Kaizere.
Seeing Differently: Modeling Interpretive Perspectives in Computational Creativity using a Four-World Framework
Prerna Luthra.
Measuring analogical creativity – An experiment
Stergos Afantenos, Leonardo Cortez Bernardes and Henri Prade.
Conch(ious): A Tangible Generative AI Interface for Embodied Speculative Futures
Yaakulya Sabbani, Amina Magomedova, Ahmad Dahlan Hafizh and Nimrah Syed.
Experiments in Text-2-Tool-Use for Relatable Computational Creativity
Simon Colton.
What Makes Literary Quotes Stand Out? A Multidimensional Analysis of Literary Creativity
Berke Yazan, Almila Akdag and Davide Dell’Anna.
Evolving to the Aesthetics of a Vision-Language Model
Stephen James Krol and Jon McCormack.

Short Papers

ANTLER 1: A Multimodal Co-Creative Tutor for Stylistic Exploration in Tambour Embroidery
Anne Toomey, Zowie Broach, Mojtaba Kargar, Samira Valorian, Henrietta Dent, Aemika Zou and Chaonan Lin.
Before the Prompt: Heteromorphic Imagination and the Cognitive Cost of Premature Crystallization in Human-AI Co-Creativity
Emil Polyak and Rghad Balkhyoor.
Spot the Pipeline: Evaluating Perceptual Convergence Among Text-to-Image Tools
Martin Disley.
The Concept Collider: A White-Box Computational Framework for Targeted Creative Emergence
Sebastian Wahl.
From 31 Functions to 14 Categories: Grouping Propp’s Narrative Structure for Co-Creative Writing Tools
Aman Alapati, Alaa Mohasseb, Ella Haig and Argenis Ramirez Gomez.
In-Person First, Not In-Person Only: Reflections on Remote Participation through the case of ICCC’25 Watch Party
Luís Espírito Santo.
Back to Back with a Copy: A Computational Analysis of AI-Generated Visual Contemporary Art Pastiches
Anca Dinu, Andreiana Mihail, Andra-Maria Florescu, Claudiu Creangă and Liviu P. Dinu.
Sketch-It: A Consent-First Creativity Support Tool for the Generation of Inspirational Sketches
Claudia Pàmies Vaqué, Garrit Schaap and Maria M. Hedblom.
Transformation Is All You Need
Sean Luke and Matthew Cronin.
Side-Splitter: A Visual Laboratory for Jokes with Verbal Humour and Physical Slapstick
Tony Veale.
The Parallax View: An objective treatment of humorous subjectivity in joke generation
Tony Veale.
Conceptualising Creative Autonomy in People, AI, and Their Interaction: A Scoping Review Protocol
Maija Välimäki and Christian Guckelsberger.
I Was Scrolling and Then I Saw a Pregnant Strawberry
Piera Riccio.
Making Sense of ”Cozy Chaos”: Humans and LLMs Differences in Linguistic Creativity
Anca Dinu, Andra-Maria Florescu and Alina Resceanu.
World-State Transformations to Foster Player Creativity in Neuro-symbolic Interactive Storytelling
Santiago Góngora, Luis Chiruzzo, Gonzalo Mendez and Pablo Gervás.
Anchor-Conditioned Compositional Control for Landscape Image Generation
Gadha Lekshmi P, Govind Arun, Rohith Syam and Ahmed Elgammal.
Recipes for Creativity: Iterative Generation and Evaluation in Large Language Models
Rens Anderson, Tessa Verhoef and Amirhossein Zohrehvand.
Creating and Evaluating Challenge in Generative Music Education Systems
Filippo Carnovalini and Geraint Wiggins.
Importing TRIZ into Narratology for LLM-Assisted Story
Milka Kaplan, Armin Shmilovici and Mark Last.
The Flow of LLM-Generated Poetry: Revisiting Temperature as the Creativity Parameter
Patrícia Ferreira, Catarina Silva, Ana Alves and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira.
How Context Injection Shapes Creativity in LLM-Generated Alternative Uses
Theo Wong, Fabricio Goes, Marco Volpe and Paulo Mann.
Harnessing Quantitative Creativity to Explore the Uncanny Valley of Synthetic Faces
Aditi Ramaswamy and Hana Chockler.
IRIDyOM: Exposing Musical Expectation as an Interactive Creative Space
Lluc Bono Rosselló, Julien Baudru and Hugues Bersini.
A Training-Free Novelty Detection Framework for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Social Creativity Simulations
Luuk Motz, Tessa Verhoef and Rob Saunders.
What If the Emperor’s New Clothes Are A Straitjacket?
Pablo Gervás, Carlos León and Dan Ventura.
Coherence-Oriented Dream Scene Visualisation
Azra Acil and Simon Colton.
Twenty-Five Years of The Painting Fool Project
Simon Colton and Blanca Perez Ferrer.
Folded Bodies: Topological Control of an Untrained Spiking Instrument
Lucas Kuzma.
Is It Happening? Lyotard’s Sublime and the Indeterminate in AI-Generated Text
Olga Vechtomova.
Co-Creative Vulnerability: Risks of Engagement Optimization in Creative AI
James Morgan and Margareta Ackerman.
KYSS: A Framework for Evaluating Self-Knowledge Support in Human-AI Co-Creation
Giancarlo Colloca and Jeba Rezwana.
Gamification of Control in Co-Creativity through Design Cards
Alayt Issak, Jeba Rezwana and Casper Harteveld.
How are scientific concepts birthed? Typing rules of concept formation in theoretical physics reasoning
Omar Aguilar and Anthony Aguirre.
An Initial Design for Generative Game Mechanics via LLM Function Emulation
Brad Spendlove and David Kline.
Does AI Herald the End of Creative Coding?
Jon McCormack and Stephen James Krol.
Cross-Modal Associations in Creativity: Evaluating Word-Image Pairing in Humans and Large Language Models
Eva Illion, Linxuan Wang and Liane Gabora.
Expressing our Authentic Voices within Co-Creative AI Partnerships: Insights from Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Alison Pease and Tom Griffiths.
Computational Creativity Mediums as Complex Systems
Ane Kristine Espeseth and Elias Najarro.