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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION – DCC08
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
23-25 June 2008
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/

This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design.

PAPERS
Papers, 60 authors from 12 countries, will be presented in the following sessions, which include two poster sessions:
Session 1: Shape Grammars
Session 2: Design Cognition 1
Session 3: Knowledge-Based Design
Session 4: Sketching, Diagrams and Visualization
Session 5: Design Creativity
Session 6: Poster Session 1
Session 7: Design Cognition 2
Session 8: Design Support
Session 9: Spatial Configuration
Session 10: Poster Session 2
Session 11: The Virtual and the Physical

WORKSHOPS
The conference is preceded by a series of half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing and cognition.
Workshop 1: Generative Urban Design
Workshop 2: Design Thinking
Workshop 3: Informing Computational Support for Conceptual Design: Lessons Learned from Sketching Studies
Workshop 4: Design Creativity
Workshop 5: Form-Making versus Form-Finding: Distributed Cognition and the Affordances of Design Media
Workshop 6: High Tech/High Touch: Digital and Analog Design Tools
Workshop 7: IT in Design
Doctoral Consortium (4 half-day workshop sessions)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mary Lou Maher
Program Director, Creative IT, US National Science Foundation

Full details and registration are available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/