Call for Submissions
C&C 2022: The 14th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
20-23 June 2022
Venice, Italy
https://cc.acm.org/2022
First submission deadline (for papers): January 10, 2022
Creativity and Cognition 2022 brings together artists, scientists, designers, educators, and researchers to more deeply understand how people engage individually and socially in creative processes and how computation and other technology can affect creative outcomes.
C&C 2022 invites papers, pictorials, artworks, workshops and tutorials as well as posters, demonstrations and graduate student symposium submissions investigating how interactive computing systems and socio-technical processes affect creativity. Of particular interest are contributions that relate to this year’s conference theme: Creativity, Craft and Design. The theme highlights how human and computational aspects of creativity can beneficially impact our communities and cultures, and how human experience impacts and is impacted by processes of creatively forming and solving problems, designing spaces, and building new possibilities. We invite submissions that address any and all human senses, including visual, sonic, tangible, olfactory, and somaesthetic modalities. We invite new approaches to and forms of data, such as first-person and visual methods, and text analysis, as well as qualitative and quantitative data methodologies typically employed in human-computer interaction research.
Venice and the Veneto are renowned for the development and retention of craft design skills in glass, furniture, fashion, printing, and architecture. The city’s cultural and creative industries are increasingly influential at the intersections of creativity, innovation, design, and marketing. To reflect this location, the C&C 2022 conference is especially seeking contributions that explore the intersections of creativity, craft, and design.
We will incorporate options for virtual attendance and paper presentations. As in related conferences, papers will be reviewed based on the significance of the contribution, originality, validity, the soundness of the arguments.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
We welcome high-quality submissions on a range of topics including, but not limited to:
- Creativity support environments and computing technologies designed to foster, promote, improve, and increase creative experiences, processes, products, and services
- Supporting, nurturing, embracing creativity in art, craft and design
- Capturing, representing, and analyzing creative processes
- Creativity in the face of global pandemic
- A variety of creative phenomena of individuals and/or society
- Gaming technologies that support new forms of play or creative learning
- Virtual and mixed reality technologies that provoke creativity or amplify cognition
- Studies of creativity applications to different domains such as learning, work, wellbeing, health, entertainment
- Theoretical reflection on creativity
- Investigations of curation practices, platforms, and environments, in contexts from everyday to scholarly to museums
- Research on collaboration, crowdsourcing and micro-task activities
- Studies of social media and how it impacts individual and social relatedness
- New methodologies and theories for evaluating the impact of computing on creativity
- Studies evaluating creativity in diverse contexts such as work with underserved communities, longitudinal studies, and cross-cultural contexts
IMPORTANT DATES
PAPERS AND PICTORIALS:
For papers only: abstract & title submission due: January 10th, 2022
Full submissions due: January 24th, 2022
Notifications: March 28th, 2022
Camera-ready completion deadline: May 2nd, 2022
ARTWORKS:
Abstract & title submission due: January 10th, 2022
Full submissions due: January 24th, 2022
Notifications: February 7th, 2022
Camera-ready completion deadline: May 2nd, 2022
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS PROPOSALS:
Full submissions due: January 24th, 2022
Notifications: February 7th, 2022
Camera-ready completion deadline: May 2nd, 2022
Deadlines are specified as Anywhere on Earth time (11;59 PM UTC).
FORMAT
There are two types of paper submissions: full papers and short papers. Both should be submitted in the ACM SIGCHI submission template format (SIGCHI ACM new, standardized single-column format). Papers must be submitted in PDF. Full papers should be between 4000 and 8000 words in length, excluding titles, references and figure/table captions. Short papers should be up to 4000 words in length, excluding titles, references and figure/table captions. We encourage authors to submit papers of length proportional to their contributions.
The total size of all submitted materials, including a video figure, should not exceed 100 MB. If you are unsure of what constitutes a well-formed paper, see the many examples in the ACM Digital Library for our conference, including examples of C&C Best Papers.
All submissions will be made through the Precision Conference website. For details see below (“Where to Submit” section).
Accepted full and short papers will be included in the Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition 2022, and will become available in ACM Digital Library.
ANONYMIZATION POLICY
All papers must be anonymized for review. Author and affiliation sections and credits must be left blank. Authors of accepted submissions will add this information in preparation of the “camera-ready” version. We are using the ACM CHI Anonymization Policy of blind reviewing. We use a relaxed model that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. Authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper, as noted in the submission instructions (Note: changing the text color of the author information is not sufficient). Also, please make sure that identifying information does not appear in the document’s meta-data (e.g., the ‘Authors’ field in your word processor’s ‘Save As’ dialog box). Authors should cite their own work in the third person, e.g., avoid “As described in our previous work [10], … ” and use instead “As described by [10], …”
PUBLICATIONS POLICY
As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.
WHERE TO SUBMIT
Please submit via the Precision Conference (PCS) website, which opens in December 2022:
https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions.
Once you have logged into the PCS website, select the following options (which will become available early next year) under “Submissions” and click the Go button.
Society: SIGCHI
Conference/Journal: Creativity & Cognition 2022
Track: Creativity & Cognition 2022 Papers
VIDEO FIGURES (OPTIONAL)
Video figures may accompany a paper submission for the purpose of review. They are strongly encouraged but not required. The CHI and UIST guides to producing video figures are useful.
REVIEW PROCESS
Papers follow a rigorous blind peer review process. This process is managed by the Creativity & Cognition 2022 Program Committee. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained throughout the review process. Each paper will be reviewed by two PC members along with two external reviewers.
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