Screen industry collaboration:The Knock– producing fiction with Creative England/BFI

Creative methodologies for understanding a creative industry

Objectives The production of innovation or novelty in creative interactions is normally represented in research either as normative patterns of behaviour (being creative) or as post-hoc empirical objects (new firms, new products etc.) The structure of creative practices, i.e. what particular forms of interactivity produce successful novelty (i.e. which becomes ‘normal’ and not novel, which crea...

On-Screen Note Pad for Creative Activities

We propose a system that enables users to write memos directly on a computer screen by hand. The system helps users save the screen images along with a user's handwritten strokes and in searching for them. We describe some of the important functions of the system and the effective retrieval keys for searching for saved images. We explain that the implementation of our prototype system consists ...

Synthetic Literature: Writing Science Fiction in a Co-Creative Process

This paper describes a co-creative text generation system applied within a science fiction setting to be used by an established novelist. The project was initiated as part of The Dutch Book Week, and the generated text will be published within a volume of science fiction stories. We explore the ramifications of applying Natural Language Generation within a cocreative process, and examine where ...

The creative industry of integrative systems biology

Integrative systems biology (ISB) is among the most innovative fields of contemporary science, bringing together scientists from a range of diverse backgrounds and disciplines to tackle biological complexity through computational and mathematical modeling. The result is a plethora of problem-solving techniques, theoretical perspectives, lab-structures and organizations, and identity labels that...

Creative tools for producing realistic 3D facial expressions and animation