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.

Workshops

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.

Day One

Monday 19 July 2004
0800 - 0900 Registration
Continental Breakfast (Outside Kirsch Auditorium (Room 32-123))
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

Day Two

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

Day Three

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