| Editor |
Do, Ellen Y. Cesar, Pablo Cesar Yew, Jude Blevis, Eli Inie, Nanna Churchill, Elizabeth F. Bailey, Brian Waycott, Jenny Dolejsová, Markéta Cesar, Pablo Shamma, David A. Jones, Sara Latulipe, Celine Grace, Kazjon Luther, Kurt Ferguson, Sam Yew, Jude C.L. Mauro-Flude, Nancy |
| Abstract |
Welcome to CC2017 and to Singapore! We have an amazing array of artwork and technical content for this year's conference program. The program includes 25 full papers and 2 notes (94 submissions), 5 pictorials (12 submissions), 5 posters (15 submissions), 6 technology demonstrations (11 submissions), 3 workshops (6 submissions), 24 artworks (55 submissions), and 13 graduate student symposium papers. The topics of the submissions were diverse, but the keywords most frequently selected by authors included collaboration, education and learning, crowdsourcing, creativity support, design methods, and qualitative methods of inquiry. Authors from a diverse set of countries participated in the call for submissions. Across all the tracks (based on the country of residence reported by the first-authors of submissions), authors residing in Singapore accounted for 12% of all submissions, while authors residing in the U.S. accounted for 30% of submissions. These were followed by the United Kingdom (9%), Australia (8%), Japan (5%), China (4%), Portugal (4%), Netherlands (4%), Denmark (4%), Republic of Korea (3%), and Slovenia (3%). Additional participation came from authors residing in Austria, Bangladesh, Finland, Germany, India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey. We thank all of the authors and artists around the globe for their efforts in developing and submitting content to the conference. The conference committee developed several innovations this year. First, we introduced a new track called Pictorials. In technical papers, visual content such as images and illustrations are developed in support of the prose. A pictorial inverts this relationship: the visual content is the contribution and the prose is written in support of that content. We thank the pictorial chairs, Lee Jung Joo (National University of Singapore) and Will Odom (Simon Fraser University), for their leadership in bringing the idea for this new track to the conference. We also wanted attendees to view this content on an equal footing as the technical papers, and so you will see the pictorials placed alongside the technical papers and notes in the main program, and the pictorials will be presented with equal time. We look forward to seeing more Pictorials in the C&C conference in the years ahead. Second, the papers chairs, Aisling Kelleher (Virginia Tech) and Steven Dow (University of California at San Diego), continued the emphasis from 2015 to acquire competent, thorough, and thoughtful reviews. This was accomplished in large part by the papers chairs recruiting 29 people with expertise in the arts, design, computer science, psychology, media, and engineering to form an all-star program committee. New to 2017, the papers chairs developed a review process in which each submission received four reviews: two from external reviewers, one from a member of the program committee, and a meta-review from another program committee member. This process balanced acquiring external perspectives with the local expertise of the committee. We hope all of the authors were able to benefit from the reviews they received. Third, for the first time in 2017, we separated the posters and technology demonstrations into their own individual tracks. The purpose was to simplify the submission and review process, and allow the respective chairs to better direct their attention to managing a single category of content. The final innovation to share is that the organizing committee strived to develop an organizational memory for the conference. This was accomplished by using an open cloud-based hosting platform to share and archive the planning documents, calls for papers, program communications, and funding proposals. We hope future organizers will benefit from and continue this effort. |
