CfP: The First Reflection in Creative Experience (RiCE) Workshop
Corey Ford
The first Reflection in Creative Experience (RiCE) workshop invites researchers, designers, educators, and artists across HCI, Cognitive Science, Design, AI, Learning Sciences, and Digital Art to examine reflection and metacognition in creative interaction. The workshop will be hosted at ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026, where we will collaboratively develop a taxonomy for reflection in creative computing, and share research and practice on:
- how reflection occurs across computer arts practices;
- how best to study reflection in creative contexts;
- how to leverage the arts to support reflection for ethical change;
- and how to design creativity support tools and creative AI that enhances - not hinders - critical thinking.
Keywords: AI, autoethnography, cognitive alignment, creativity support tools, data physicialisation, ethics, first-person accounts, flow, human-ai co-creativity, human-centred AI, inclusivity, LLM, positionality, process visualisation, reflection-in-action, social justice, soma-somatic, transformative practice, wellbeing
* Important Information
Submission Deadline: Tuesday 12th May, 2026, 23:59 AoE
Notification: Tuesday 19th May, 2026, 23:59 AoE
Workshop Date: Monday 13th July, 2026
Venue: ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2026
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London, UK
Website: https://riceworkshop.github.io/
* Submission Guidelines
Submissions can be (but are not limited to) position papers, user studies, design concepts, case studies, or theoretical pieces, relating to the conference themes on the workshop website.
We particularly encourage submissions of first-person reflective pieces on people's own computer arts practice, especially with a brief meta-analysis (1 paragraph) of how reflection occurred in their making.
The following categories are welcome:
- a 2 to 4-page paper;
- a 2 to 4-page pictorial;
- a 3 to 5-min video;
* Organising Committee
Corey Ford (Chair), University of the Arts London, UK
Olga Sutskova, University of the Arts London, UK
Samuel Rhys Cox, Aalborg University, Denmark
Sarah Sterman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Max Kreminski, Cornell Tech, USA
Rosa Van Koningsbruggen, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Anqi Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
Ege Otenen, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Karly Ross, University of Calgary, Canada
Giulia Di Fede, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yinmiao Li, Northwestern University, USA
Salvatore Andolina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marit Bentvelzen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Pan Hui, HKUST (Guangzhou) / HKUST, Hong Kong SAR
Nick Bryan-Kinns, University of the Arts London, UK
* Website
For more information and submission details please see the workshop website:
https://riceworkshop.github.io/
