Thank you, and best paper awards

Thank you to everyone for coming to Eindhoven and making DESIRE’11 such a vibrant event! If you have published any blog posts, photo albums or other material that you’d be happy to share, please let us know, and we’ll link to it from this post.

The award for best long paper went to Erin Beatty and Linden Ball for their paper entitled: Investigating Exceptional Poets to Inform an Understanding of the Relationship between Poetry and Design

The award for best short paper went to Katja Grufberg and Lars Holmquist, for their paper: Magical Bits: Designing Through Experiencing the Future End Product

Erratum

Our printed program contains a small error. It indicates that the following paper is nominated as best short paper:

“Júlia Nacsa, Emilia Barakova and Joep Frens. Sharing meaning and physical activity through a tangible interactive light object”

In fact, the nominee is:

“Willem Willemsen, Ruud Mestrom and Emilia Barakova: The Application of Learning Algorithms in the Development of Natural Interaction”

Conference Program available online

The Conference Program can be downloaded now in pdf format:

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Best Paper nominees

We are pleased to announce the following nominees for Best Paper Award:

Short papers:

• Grufberg, Holmquist: Magical Bits: Designing Through Experiencing the Future End Product
• Willemsen, Mestrom, Barakova: The Application of Learning Algorithms in the Development of Natural Interaction
• Kathy Lo: Relational Messages in Product Design

Long papers:

• Beatty, Ball: Investigating Exceptional Poets to Inform an Understanding of the Relationship between Poetry and Design
• Dix, Gongora: Externalisation and Design
• Snider, Dekoninck, Culley: Studying the appearance and effect of creativity within the the latter stages of the product development process

DESIRE’11-Creativity and Innovation in Design

The DESIRE Network is pleased to announce the Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, to be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on 19-21 October 2011.

The conference theme of the first DESIRE conference, held in Aarhus, Denmark, on 16-17 August 2010, was theories and models of creative processes in design (see https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/desire/conference for more details).

The conference theme of this second DESIRE conference is theory and practice of creative processes in design. Full papers and workshop proposals are invited on the following topics:

• Methods, tools and techniques for supporting creative design processes
• Methods, tools and techniques for observing and studying creative design processes
• Design cases illustrating the role of creativity in design
• Theoretical insights into creative design processes in design and related domains
• Visions on teaching & research in  creative design
• Creativity by teams, organizations, and communities
• Representations supporting creative design
• Understanding the social and psychological aspects of design work
• Social and cultural theories of design work

The conference is organized by the DESIRE Network (www.desirenetwork.eu) which is funded by the European Commission. The network aims to advance the current understanding of creative processes applied in scientific and technological design.

The conference is organized In-Cooperation with ACM and papers and workshop/tutorial materials will be published in the ACM library. We shall publish a supplementary proceedings with poster/exhibit materials. Keynote speakers are Marc Hassenzahl and Linda Candy.

The conference takes place just prior to the 10^th edition of the Dutch Design Week, the major annual venue to experience Dutch design in all its facets (see www.dutchdesignweek.nl/index.php?lang=en&id=0). This year’s Dutch Design Week in which over 1500 designers participated lasted 9 days, has 300 events spread over 65 locations throughout the town of Eindhoven, and drew 150.000 visitors from Holland and abroad.