Program

Conference Program

Schedule Overview

 

TimeMON, 29TUE, 30WED, 1THU, 2FRI, 3
08:30Doors open
Registration		Doors open
Registration		Doors open
Registration		Doors open
Registration		Doors open
09:00Workshops + Early Career Symposium (ECS)WorkshopsPapers Session (2h)Papers Session (2h)Papers Session (2h)
09:30
10:00
10:30
11:00Coffee breakCoffee breakCoffee breakCoffee breakCoffee break
11:30Workshops + Early Career Symposium (ECS)WorkshopsPapers Session (1h)Papers Session (1h)Papers Session (40 min)
12:00Conference Closing
12:30Keynote:
Jennifer Jacobs		Keynote:
Leonel Moura		General Assembly meeting
13:00
13:30LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch
14:00Celebrating Margaret Boden
Computational Creativity Talks
14:30WorkshopsPapers Session (2h)Papers Session (2h)Bienal
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30Coffee breakCoffee breakCoffee breakDemos + PostersCoffee breakDemos + Posters
17:00WorkshopsConference OpeningSC
meeting
17:30Papers Session (1h)
18:00
18:30Welcome receptionGuided Tourbus leaves to restaurant
19:00Conference Dinner
19:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
21:30
22:00
22:30bus returns to Coimbra
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  • Coffee and lunch breaks, doors open & registration
  • Main conference events
  • Keynotes and Special Events
  • Workshops and Early Career Symposium
  • Social events
  • Demos and Posters Sessions
  • Paper sessions
  • Association-related events (GA, SC)

 

 

Tuesday

 

Tuesday, 30 June
08:30–09:00Doors open and Registration
09:00–11:00WS – Narratives as Design Tools for AIWS – The Not-so-secret Workshop
11:00–11:30Coffee break
11:30–13:30WS – Narratives as Design Tools for AIWS – The Not-so-secret Workshop
13:30–14:30Lunch
14:00–16:30Celebrating Margaret Boden
- Computational Creativity Talks
16:30–17:00Coffee break
17:00–17:30 Conference Opening
17:30-18:30Paper Presentations (1h)

Session Chair: Anna Kantosalo



Full paper
A Process-centric Analysis of Modern Generative AI As Computational Creativity
Dan Ventura.
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Full paper
Snap, Crackle and … Slop? Imbuing Generative AI with the Essence of Computational Creativity
Tony Veale.
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Short paper
The Affordance is the Message: Creative Media as Complex Systems
Ane Kristine Espeseth and Elias Najarro.
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18:30-19:30Welcome reception

 

Wednesday

 

Wednesday, 1 July
08:30–09:00Doors open
Registration
09:00–11:00Paper Presentations (2h)

Session Chair: F. Amilcar Cardoso



Full paper
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.
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Full paper
Assistance, Not Usurpation: LLMs as Catalysts for Human Originality
Roberto Gallotta, Antonios Liapis and Georgios N. Yannakakis.
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Full paper
Who's driving? Exposing human self-deception in creative human-AI collaboration
Špela Vintar, Mojca Brglez, Damjan Popič and Jan Jona Javoršek.
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Full paper
Digital Weight: Towards an Ecological Evaluation Layer for Generative AI in Computational Creativity
Jekaterina Kaizere.
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Short paper
Before the Prompt: Heteromorphic Imagination and the Cognitive Cost of Premature Crystallization in Human-AI Co-Creativity
Emil Polyak and Rghad Balkhyoor.
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11:00–11:30Coffee break
11:30–12:30Paper Presentations (1h)

Session Chair: Hannu Toivonen



Full paper
IVIE: A Neuro-symbolic Approach to Incremental and Validated Generation of Interactive Fiction Worlds
Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago Góngora and Luis Chiruzzo.
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Full paper
Evolving to the Aesthetics of a Vision-Language Model
Stephen James Krol and Jon McCormack.
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12:30–13:30


Keynote


Materials and Machines: How the Physical World Can Inform Computational Tools for Creative Production
Jennifer Jacobs.
13:30–14:30Lunch
14:30–16:30Paper Presentations (2h)

Session Chair: Tony Veale



Full paper
What makes LLM-generated Answers Valuable for Research Problem Reframing?
Abhinav Sood, Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris and Kazjon Grace.
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Full paper
Creative Transformation in Literary Texts: Modelling Change Across Representational Levels
Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu and Liviu P. Dinu.
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Full paper
JEST: A Benchmark for Rating the Funniness of Short Texts
Joe Toplyn and Ori Amir.
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Full paper
Cognitive, Social and Creative Skills for Effective AI Humor Generation
Lydia Chilton and Sean Kim.
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Short paper
International Conference on Computational Creativity: What If the Emperor's New Clothes Are A Straitjacket?
Pablo Gervás, Carlos León and Dan Ventura.
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16:30–17:00Coffee breakDemos + Posters



Poster P01
A Training-Free Novelty Detection Framework for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Social Creativity Simulations
Luuk Motz, Tessa Verhoef and Rob Saunders.
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Poster P02
Anchor-Conditioned Compositional Control for Landscape Image Generation
Gadha Lekshmi P, Govind Arun, Rohith Syam and Ahmed Elgammal.
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Poster P03
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.
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Poster P05
Creating and Evaluating Challenge in Generative Music Education Systems
Filippo Carnovalini and Geraint Wiggins.
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Poster P06
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.
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Poster P07
How are scientific concepts birthed? Typing rules of concept formation in theoretical physics reasoning
Omar Aguilar and Anthony Aguirre.
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Poster P08
Importing TRIZ into Narratology for LLM-Assisted Story
Milka Kaplan, Armin Shmilovici and Mark Last.
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Poster P09
In-Person First, Not In-Person Only: Reflections on Remote Participation through the case of ICCC’25 Watch Party
Luís Espírito Santo.
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Poster P10
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.
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Poster P11
Side-Splitter: A Visual Laboratory for Jokes with Verbal Humour and Physical Slapstick
Tony Veale.
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Poster P12
The Parallax View: An objective treatment of humorous subjectivity in joke generation
Tony Veale.
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Poster P13
Spot the Pipeline: Evaluating Perceptual Convergence Among Text-to-Image Tools
Martin Disley.
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Poster P14
World-State Transformations to Foster Player Creativity in Neuro-symbolic Interactive Storytelling
Santiago Góngora, Luis Chiruzzo, Gonzalo Mendez and Pablo Gervás.
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Poster P26
Conceptualising Creative Autonomy in People, AI, and Their Interaction: A Scoping Review Protocol
Maija Välimäki and Christian Guckelsberger.
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Demo D16
IRIDyOM: Exposing Musical Expectation as an Interactive Creative Space
Lluc Bono Rosselló, Julien Baudru and Hugues Bersini.
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Demo D19
Cross-Modal Associations in Creativity: Evaluating Word-Image Pairing in Humans and Large Language Models
Eva Illion, Linxuan Wang and Liane Gabora.
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Demo D21
Folded Bodies: Topological Control of an Untrained Spiking Instrument
Lucas Kuzma.
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Demo D22
Gamification of Control in Co-Creativity through Design Cards
Alayt Issak, Jeba Rezwana and Casper Harteveld.
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Demo D29
The Concept Collider: A White-Box Computational Framework for Targeted Creative Emergence
Sebastian Wahl.
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17:00–17:30Steering Committee meeting
17:30–18:00
18:00–18:30
18:30–19:30Guided Tour

 

Thursday

 

Thursday, 2 July
08:30–09:00Doors open
Registration
09:00–11:00Paper Presentations (2h)

Session Chair:
Christian Guckelsberger



Full paper
Theory as Architecture: Why Aesthetic Frameworks Should Constitute, Not Merely Evaluate, AI Art Systems
Atticus Sims.
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Full paper
Seeing Differently: Modeling Interpretive Perspectives in Computational Creativity using a Four-World Framework
Prerna Luthra.
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Full paper
Experiments in Text-2-Tool-Use for Relatable Computational Creativity
Simon Colton.
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Full paper
Measuring analogical creativity - An experiment
Stergos Afantenos, Leonardo Cortez Bernardes and Henri Prade.
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Short paper
Does AI Herald the End of Creative Coding?
Jon McCormack and Stephen James Krol.
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11:00–11:30Coffee break
11:30–12:30Paper Presentations (1h)

Session Chair: Penousal Machado




Full paper
Conch(ious): A Tangible Generative AI Interface for Embodied Speculative Futures
Yaakulya Sabbani, Amina Magomedova, Ahmad Dahlan Hafizh and Nimrah Syed.
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Full paper
World-Schema Alignment: Conditioning Data as a Compositional Strategy in Generative Audio
Frederick Rodrigues.
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Short paper
I Was Scrolling and Then I Saw a Pregnant Strawberry
Piera Riccio.
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12:30–13:30


Keynote


Sapiens AI: The New Condition
Leonel Moura
13:30–14:30Lunch
14:30–16:30Papers Session (2h)

Session Chair: Maya Ackerman



Full paper
Generative Rules as Design Material: Constitutive Agency in Co-Creative Evolutionary Knit Design
Severi Uusitalo and Anna-Mari Leppisaari.
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Full paper
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.
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Full paper
Reading Between the Lines: Can LLMs Discover the Question Behind the Text?
Claudiu Creanga and Liviu P. Dinu.
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Full paper
Lessons Learned from Organizing a Literary Competition of Short Stories Co-created by Humans and AI Tools
Rudolf Rosa, Michaela Liegertová and Miloslav Linc.
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Short paper
KYSS: A Framework for Evaluating Self-Knowledge Support in Human-AI Co-Creation
Giancarlo Colloca and Jeba Rezwana.
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16:30–17:00Coffee breakDemos + Posters



Poster P04
Making Sense of “Cozy Chaos”: Humans and LLMs Differences in Linguistic Creativity
Anca Dinu, Andra-Maria Florescu and Alina Resceanu.
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Poster P15
An Initial Design for Generative Game Mechanics via LLM Function Emulation
Brad Spendlove and David Kline.
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Poster P16
IRIDyOM: Exposing Musical Expectation as an Interactive Creative Space
Lluc Bono Rosselló, Julien Baudru and Hugues Bersini.
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Poster P17
Co-Creative Vulnerability: Risks of Engagement Optimization in Creative AI
James Morgan and Margareta Ackerman.
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Poster P18
Coherence-Oriented Dream Scene Visualisation
Azra Acil and Simon Colton.
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Poster P19
Cross-Modal Associations in Creativity: Evaluating Word-Image Pairing in Humans and Large Language Models
Eva Illion, Linxuan Wang and Liane Gabora.
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Poster P20
Expressing our Authentic Voices within Co-Creative AI Partnerships: Insights from Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Alison Pease and Tom Griffiths.
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Poster P21
Folded Bodies: Topological Control of an Untrained Spiking Instrument
Lucas Kuzma.
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Poster P22
Gamification of Control in Co-Creativity through Design Cards
Alayt Issak, Jeba Rezwana and Casper Harteveld.
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Poster P23
Harnessing Quantitative Creativity to Explore the Uncanny Valley of Synthetic Faces
Aditi Ramaswamy and Hana Chockler.
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Poster P24
How Context Injection Shapes Creativity in LLM-Generated Alternative Uses
Theo Wong, Fabricio Goes, Marco Volpe and Paulo Mann.
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Poster P25
Is It Happening? Lyotard's Sublime and the Indeterminate in AI-Generated Text
Olga Vechtomova.
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Poster P27
Recipes for Creativity: Iterative Generation and Evaluation in Large Language Models
Rens Anderson, Tessa Verhoef and Amirhossein Zohrehvand.
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Poster P28
Sketch-It: A Consent-First Creativity Support Tool for the Generation of Inspirational Sketches
Claudia Pàmies Vaqué, Garrit Schaap and Maria M. Hedblom.
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Poster P29
The Concept Collider: A White-Box Computational Framework for Targeted Creative Emergence
Sebastian Wahl.
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Poster P30
The Flow of LLM-Generated Poetry: Revisiting Temperature as the Creativity Parameter
Patrícia Ferreira, Catarina Silva, Ana Alves and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira.
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Demo D08
Importing TRIZ into Narratology for LLM-Assisted Story
Milka Kaplan, Armin Shmilovici and Mark Last.
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Demo D10
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.
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Demo D11
Side-Splitter: A Visual Laboratory for Jokes with Verbal Humour and Physical Slapstick
Tony Veale.
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Demo D13
The Parallax View: An objective treatment of humorous subjectivity in joke generation
Tony Veale.
Download paper



Demo D14
World-State Transformations to Foster Player Creativity in Neuro-symbolic Interactive Storytelling
Santiago Góngora, Luis Chiruzzo, Gonzalo Mendez and Pablo Gervás.
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17:00–17:30
17:30–18:30
18:30bus leaves to restaurant
19:00-22.30Conference Dinner
22:30bus returns to Coimbra

 

Friday

 

FRI, 3
08:30–09:00Doors open
09:00–11:00Paper Presentations (2h)

Session Chair: Pablo Gervás



Full paper
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.
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Full paper
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.
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Full paper
Who Can Scan a Verse? Evaluating Open and Closed Language Models for Portuguese Poetic Scansion
Filipe Calegario and André Valença.
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Full paper
What Makes Literary Quotes Stand Out? A Multidimensional Analysis of Literary Creativity
Berke Yazan, Almila Akdag and Davide Dell'Anna.
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Short paper
Transformation Is All You Need
Sean Luke and Matthew Cronin.
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11:00–11:30Coffee break
11:30–12:10Paper Presentations (40 min)

Session Chair: Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira



Full paper
Artists' Strategies to Circumvent Representational Biases and Censorship in Text-to-Image Generation
Mijntje de Groote and Piera Riccio.
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Short paper
Twenty-Five Years of The Painting Fool Project
Simon Colton and Blanca Perez Ferrer.
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12:10–12:30Conference Closing
12:30–13:30General Assembly meeting
13:30–14:30Lunch
14:30–16:30Guided tour to Bienal Art Exhibition

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