Kate Compton, UC Santa Cruz, is speaking on creativity apps at Goldsmiths, University of London.

When: 1pm-2pm, Monday 9 November
Where: Room RHB 144, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London

Many creativity tools exist to support task-focused creativity, but in recent years we have seen a flourishing apps for casual creativity, fun and explorative creativity rather than task-completion. Creativity apps to make pottery, music, and Mario levels are bringing creativity to audiences outside of professional creative workers, but making this move requires new design patterns and best practices. Kate Compton will present some of her favorite new patterns that make these apps successful, and demonstrates them with new interactive prototypes.

Bio: Kate Compton is a long-time Procedural Content Generation (PCG) practitioner. She wrote the first paper on procedural platformer levels, generated the planets for Spore, and wrote the latest SimCity fire system. She is now a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz developing artificial intelligence to augment human creativity with generative art. She likes laser cutting, 3D printing, founding companies, and baking.