DCC04 Program
All workshops, presentation sessions and poster sessions will be held at the Ray and Maria Stata Center (Building 32).
A printable version of the conference program is available to download.
| Saturday 17 July 2004 | |
| 0800 - 0900 | Registration Continental Breakfast (Outside Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123)) |
| 0900 - 1230 | |
| Workshop One - The designer as tool builder and the limits to parametrics | |
| Workshop Two - Curves and surfaces in generative design | |
| 1400 - 1730 | |
| Workshop Three - Implementation issues in generative design systems | |
| Workshop Four - This workshop has been canceled. | |
| Sunday 18 July 2004 | |
| 0800 - 0900 | Registration Continental Breakfast (Outside Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123)) |
| 0900 - 1230 | |
| Workshop Five - A constraint based approach for design support systems | |
| Workshop Six - Cognition and computation in digital design | |
| 1400 - 1730 | |
| Workshop Seven - Virtual worlds: design and future directions | |
| Workshop Eight - Mental conceptions of emergent spaces in architectural design | |
Pre-Conference Mixer - For those who are in Cambridge on Sunday night and want to get together, we will meet at 7pm at the Cambridge Brewing Company. It is next to MIT Building NE83, and is a short walk from the Kendall Hotel and the Kendall T.
| Monday 19 July 2004 | ||
| 0800 - 0900 | Registration Continental Breakfast (Outside Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123)) |
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| 0900 - 0915 | Opening | John Gero, DCC04 Conference Chair
Terry Knight, DCC04 Local Chair |
| 0915 - 1015 | Keynote Speaker | Marvin Minsky, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1015 - 1045 | Break | |
| 1045 - 1245 | Session 1 - Conceptual Design | |
| An intelligent assistant for conceptual design: informed search using a mapping of abstract qualities to physical form | Kimberle Koile, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | |
| A shared representation for mixed-initiative design exploration | Sambit Datta and Rob Woodbury, Deakin University, Australia | |
| Computer-aided conceptual design: geometric modeling for the synthesis process | Rodrigo Mora, Concordia University, Canada | |
| That elusive concept of concept in architecture | Ann Heylighen and Genevieve Martin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | |
| 1245 - 1400 | Lunch | |
| 1400 - 1545 | Session 2 - Design Cognition | |
| A cognitive evaluation of a computer system for generating Mondrian-like artwork | Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza and Arám Zamora Lores, ITAM, Mexico | |
| Cognitive investigations into knowledge representation in engineering design | Jonathan Cagan, Jarrod Moss and Kenneth Kotovsky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA | |
| Quantifying coherent thinking in design: a computational linguistics approach | Andy Dong, University of Sydney, Australia | |
| 1545 - 1615 | Break | |
| 1615 - 1815 | Session 3 - Design Generation | |
| Explorations in using an aperiodic spatial tiling as a design generator | Kristina Shea, Cambridge University, UK | |
| Generative nodeling with timed L-systems | Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia | |
| Formalizing generation and transformation in design: a studio case-study | Omer Akin and Hoda Moustapha, Carnegie Mellon University, USA | |
| Styles, grammars, authors, and users | Andrew Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
| 1900 | Reception | |
| Tuesday 20 July 2004 | ||
| 0800 - 0845 | Continental Breakfast (Outside Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123)) | 0845 - 1045 | Session 4 - Representation in Design |
| Data views, data recognition, design queries and design rules | Rudi Stouffs and Michael Cumming, TU Delft, The Netherlands | |
| Providing an overview during the design of complex products | Timothy Jarratt, C M Eckert, P J Clarkson, and M K Stacey, Cambridge University, UK | |
| The ecological approach to generative design: ecoconfiguration through agent-environment visual coupling | Alisdair Turner, Chiron Mottram, and Alan Penn, University College London, UK | |
| Making a wall | Rachel Bethan Cruise, John McAslan & Partners, UK | |
| 1045 - 1115 | Break | |
| 1115 - 1245 | Session 5 - Interactions: Sentience and Sketching | |
| Designing a ubiquitous smart space of the future: the principle of mapping | TaySheng Jeng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | |
| Sentient buildings | Ardeshir Mahdavi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria | |
| The three R's of drawing and design computation | Mark Gross and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, University of Washington, USA | |
| 1245 - 1400 | Break | |
| 1400 - 1545 | Session 6 - Poster Session 1 | |
| 1545 - 1615 | Break Including Poster Viewing | |
| 1615 - 1815 | Session 7 - Designing with Shapes and Features | |
| Evaluation of a 3D shape grammar implementation | Hau Hing Chau, XiaoJuan Chen, Alison McKay and Alan de Pennington, University of Leeds, UK | |
| A grammar based approach for feature modelling in CAD | Egon Ostrosi and M. Ferney, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France | |
| Computing with analyzed shapes | Djordje Krstic, Alcatel, USA | |
| Extending shape grammars | Haldane Liew, MIT, USA | |
| 1900-2200 | Conference Dinner | |
| Wednesday 21 July 2004 | ||
| 0800 - 0845 | Continental Breakfast (Outside Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123)) | |
| 0845 - 1045 | Session 8 - Agents in Design | |
| Describing situated design agents | Greg Smith and John Gero, University of Sydney, Australia | |
| An ontological and agent based approach to knowledge management within a distributed design environment | Camelia Chira, Thomas Roche (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology) and David Tormey (National University of Ireland, Galway), Ireland | |
| MULTIJADE - a domain independent multiagent active design documents environment | Fernanda de Assis Gama, Flávio M. Varejão, Rodrigo L. Guimarães, and Cláudia S. Braun, Brazil | |
| A computational framework to investigate creativity and innovation in design | Ricardo Sosa and John Gero, University of Sydney, Australia | |
| 1045 - 1115 | Break | |
| 1115 - 1245 | Session 9 - Words and Rationale in Design | |
| Word graphs in architectural design | Bauke de Vries, Joran Jessurun, Nicole Segers, and Henri Achten, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands | |
| An integrated approach for software design checking using design rationale | Janet Burge and David C Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA | |
| An analysis of problem framing in multiple settings | Song Gao and Thomas Kvan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
| 1245 - 1400 | Lunch | |
| 1400 - 1545 | Session 10 - Poster Session 2 | |
| 1545 - 1615 | Break Including Poster Viewing | |
| 1615 - 1745 | Session 11 - Patterns in Design | |
| Emergent elements in periodic designs: an attempt of formalization | Katarzyna Grzesiak-Kopec, Jagiellonian University, Poland | |
| Animation in art design | Grazyna Slusarczyk, Ewa Grabska, and Michal Szlapak, Jagiellonian University, Poland | |
| Formulation of aesthetic evaluation and selection | Zhen Yu Gu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | |
| 1745 - 1800 | Closing - Presentation of Best Paper and Best Presentation Prizes | |