LCEA09 Symposium
Completing the Circle: Incorporating Evaluation Methods in Creative Work
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A one-day public symposium, endorsed by the Computer Arts Society and the Design Research Society, held in central London on Monday 19th January 2009.
This event is now over
The best papers from this symposium were adapted for a special issue of Digital Creativity. See the News page for details.
Registration to attend the symposium is now closed. Attendance for the day costs less than £50. For the following people the fee is below £25:
- full-time students
- members of the British Computer Society (BCS)
- members of the Computer Arts Society (CAS)
- members of the Design Research Society (DRS).
The fee includes refreshments and a copy of the proceedings on CD. Registration closes on Wednesday 14th January 2009.
How to register to attend
You can register online, and pay by credit card, here:
www.bcs.org/events/registration
Alternatively you can email or phone Gemma Liddiard at the British Computer Society:
Phone from within UK: 017 9341 7656
Phone from outside UK: 44 17 9341 7656
Registration closes on Monday 5th January 2009.
About the Symposium
The symposium celebrates curiosity in creative digital work, bringing together computer scientists, artists, designers, developers and academics.
The theme is controversial: the event title ‘Completing the Circle’ implies that evaluation is often missing from the creative process. But what is the role of evaluation in creative practice and how, if at all, is this altered by digital technologies?
Stephen Boyd Davis, chair of the event, explains:
‘Interactive digital technologies offer an increasing range of opportunities for artists, designers and other creative workers to find out how their work is experienced. Some creative people are keen to embrace these opportunities, while others consider such methods an intrusion. We aim to share ideas and expertise and tackle some hard questions.’
Based on the data from the 2006/7 multimedia exhibition, ‘Repossessed’, during which over 400 members of the public watched scenes from Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’, a symposium paper by Paul Marchant, David Raybould, Tony Renshaw and Richard Stevens describes the basis of an approach to the use of eye tracking techniques, visualisations, and metrics to measure the influence of directorial techniques on film viewers’ experience.
An international programme of speakers present papers which focus on using interactive technologies and other novel methods to evaluate the user’s or audience’s response to media including artworks, designs and performance.
Leaders of the field from around the world will contribute, including Professor Ernest Edmonds, director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology in Sydney, and Kristina Höök, professor in human-machine interaction at Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology.
The day of papers plus discussion includes speakers exploring innovative uses of eye-tracking technology. Speakers ask how the relation between artist, exhibit, gallery and public is altered by digital interaction . Other speakers will interrogate the basic principles in question.
All papers have been peer-reviewed by an international panel. The best papers will be put forward for a special issue of the journal Digital Creativity.
The event is organised by the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts and is supported by the Design Research Society and the Computer Arts Society, a specialist group of the British Computer Society.
The papers
The symposium programme is published in good faith and could change under unforeseen circumstances.
- Ernest Edmonds, Zafer Bilda and Elizabeth Muller (Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney). The Exhibition as Laboratory: Interactive Art, Evaluation and Audience Experience
- Robin Hawes (University College Falmouth). Vision & Reality: Relativity in Art
- Jarmo Laaksolahti, Katherine Isbister and Kristina Höök (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen). The Sensual Evaluation Instrument: A Tool that Give Designers Emotional Feedback without Using Words
- Michael Hohl (University of Hertfordshire). Designing The Art Experience: Understanding And Improving Immersive Telematic Art With Social Science Methods
- Piotr Adamczyk (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The Value of HCI Evaluation in Preserving New Media t.b.c.
- Mark Springett (Engineering and Information Sciences, Middlesex University). Evaluating Cause and Effect in User Experience
- Richard Stevens, Tony Renshaw, David Raybould and Paul Marchant (Leeds Metropolitan University). Are you seeing what I’m seeing? Eye tracking for the evaluation of dynamic scenes.
Publication
Attendees will receive the proceedings on CD-ROM; these will also be available from the conference website. Subsequent to the conference, the best papers will be considered for a special issue of the international journal Digital Creativity.
International panel
The selection panel for papers comprises:
- Dr. Stephen Boyd Davis (editor), Head, Lansdown Centre, Middlesex University
- Prof. Richard Andrews, Institute of Education
- Prof. Ernest Edmonds, Creativity and Cognition Laboratory, Sydney
- Dr. Tony Faiola, Director, Media Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction, Indiana University School of Informatics
- Prof. William Gaver, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Dr Jon Hindmarsh, Work, Interaction and Technology Group, King's College London
- Prof. Kristina Höök, Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University
- Dr. Nye Parry, composer and sonic artist
- Dr. Jennifer Sheridan, London Knowledge Lab
- Jon Sykes, co-founder, e-Motion Lab, Glasgow Caledonian University
- Prof. Jon Dovey, University of the West of England
- Paul Brown, Visiting Professor, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex
- Dr. Karel van der Waarde, Information Design Consultant and AKV/St. Joost, Avans University, Breda, The Netherlands
The original Call for Papers
The call for papers closed on 31 July 2008. Full papers are now in review.
Researchers, artists, designers and others worldwide were invited to respond to the following deliberately provocative statement:
The days when artists, media-makers or designers could work solely from personal conviction – regardless of the reception of their work – are gone. The intelligent artist or designer is now deeply interested in discovering the audience’s or the user’s response, and keen to use the many techniques and approaches now available for doing so.Authors were asked to focus on the use of novel methods, or methods newly borrowed from other disciplines, in evaluating the user’s / audience’s response to media such as websites, portable media (such as iPods, PSPs), pervasive games, film, videogames, technology-rich performance, interactive art.
Enquiries about any aspect of the event may be sent by email to Stephen Boyd Davis, symposium chair and head of the Lansdown Centre.
The Call for Abstracts ended on 31 July 2008. See below for the remainder of the schedule.
Submissions Schedule
| Date | Action | |
| 31-May-08 | First Call for Papers | |
| Period to submit abstracts: 2 months | ||
| 31-Jul-08 | Author Deadline for Abstracts | |
| Reviewing of abstracts: 2 months | ||
| 15-Sep-08 | Abstracts authors notified | |
| Authoring of full papers: 6 weeks | ||
| 10-Nov-08 | Author Deadline for Full Papers drafts | |
| Reviewing of full papers: 3 weeks | ||
| 1-Dec-08 | Reviewer deadline for requesting revisions | |
| Final modifications by authors: 5 weeks | ||
| 5-Jan-08 | Author deadline for Full Paper finals | |
| Preparation of proceedings etc: two weeks | ||
| 19-Jan-09 | Symposium day |
Location
The Lansdown Symposium 2009 Completing the Circle: Incorporating Evaluation Methods in Creative Work will be held at the
British Computer Society
First Floor
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
United Kingdom
