Assistant Professor, Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University
AIST Creative HCI Seminar #1Creativity Support: Jonas Frich, Zhicong Lu
Date and time: 13:00-16:30 (Japan Standard Time), Mar. 7th, 2023
Venue: Fukutake Learning Theater, The University of Tokyo / YouTube Live (Hybrid)
![[Photo: Jonas Frich]](/images/1-jonas-frich.jpg)
![[Photo: Zhicong Lu]](/images/1-zhicong-lu.jpg)
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About the first edition
The first edition of the AIST Creative HCI Seminar will be held on March 7 (Tue), 2023. For this very first edition, we plan to invite two edge runners of the interdisciplinary study on creativity who have actively published papers at top-tier HCI venues, including CHI, CSCW, DIS, and C&C.
The format will be a one-day hybrid workshop — attendees can either visit a venue in Tokyo, Japan, or watch online streaming on YouTube Live.
Invited speakers
Jonas Frich
Jonas Frich is an Assistant Professor at Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is an expert on the intersecting fields of creativity research and Human-Computer Interaction and is driven by the ambition to improve more people to be more creative using technology.
Zhicong LuAssistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Zhicong Lu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. His research has been exploring the potential of leveraging livestreaming for supporting knowledge sharing, creativity, and intangible cultural heritage preservation. He is especially interested in understanding social interactions that are critical to user engagement with livestreaming communities.
Timetable
| Time | Program | |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30 | Doors open | Organizers |
| 13:00 | Introduction of the seminar | Jun Kato |
| 13:10 | Introduction of Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter | Nakakoji Kumiyo |
| 13:15 | Invited talk #1 | Jonas Frich |
| 14:15 | Q&A #1 | Jonas Frich |
| 14:30 | Invited talk #2 | Zhicong Lu |
| 15:30 | Q&A #2 | Zhicong Lu |
| 15:45 | Panel discussion | Jonas, Zhicong, Jun |
| 16:25 | Closing | Organizers |
References
Example publications from the invited speakers are listed below.
Jonas Frich, Lindsay MacDonald Vermeulen, Christian Remy, Michael Mose Biskjaer, and Peter Dalsgaard. 2019. Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 389, 1–18.
Zhicong Lu, Chenxinran Shen, Jiannan Li, Hong Shen, and Daniel Wigdor. 2021. More Kawaii than a Real-Person Live Streamer: Understanding How the Otaku Community Engages with and Perceives Virtual YouTubers. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 137, 1–14.
This seminar series is co-organized by Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter.
