[CFP] IGD 23 - 1st International Workshop on Technologies and Applications of Immersive Generative Design (IGD)

Generative design and, more recently, generative artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to disrupt the physical design fields, including industrial design, architecture, and architectural engineering. One emerging trend is to explore the fusion of generative design with immersive technologies informed by disciplines such as human-computer interaction. In practice, designers have begun using immersive technologies to experience their design proposals at a 1:1 scale, in situ, and to embody different stakeholders experiencing the design through virtual avatars.

This is in conjunction with offloading the cognitive effort of the designer or even automating the entire design process by involving the computer in a more proactive role within designs than before, as afforded by generative design tools such as parametric design [8], shape grammars [6], genetic algorithms [3], cellular automata [5], and more recently generative AI [7]. However, the research agenda around this fusion between immersion and generative design is currently sparse, disconnected, and not well-defined. Respectively, the design cognition landscape [4] could dramatically change in effect to Intelligent Design Assistants [2] such as ChatGPT, that are currently evolving; Additionally, Intelligent Computer-Aided Design [1] which is re-emerging with tools such as Shap-e and DALLE-2.

This workshop proposes a new research field — Immersive Generative Design (IGD) — and aims to form an interest group to define a formal research agenda to explore future technology and application of IGD as it relates to immersive affordances across the entire Reality-Virtuality Continuum encompassing Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR). IGD seeks to understand the relationship and boundaries between human designers, immersive interfaces, and generative tools and agents. The workshop seeks to ignite robust discussions by inviting researchers to submit works from a diverse range of disciples, including, but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Design, Arts and Humanities, Human-Computer Interaction and Architectural Design.

Submission Guidelines

The accepted workshop papers will be published in the ISMAR 2022 Adjunct Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Please refer to the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format for the paper submission. Papers must be 2-4 pages (4-page limit), not including citations. The workshop will take place in person at ISMAR 2023. Please send submissions to easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igd23.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 27th, 2023

Acceptance notification: August 8th, 2023

Camera-ready materials: August 31st, 2023

Workshop date: TBD

List of Topics

• Technical development and/or applications/user studies of IGD, including applying immersive technologies and/or generative design/generative AI/design automation tools in broader design disciplines.

• Conceptual/theoretical development, including defining/understanding design environments, processes, and models of IGD.

• Research and evaluation methods of IGD systems.

• Novel interaction methods with immersive design systems (such as voice, gestural, and physiological forms of interaction).

• Visions, research opportunities and challenges for IGD.

• Provocations and ethical considerations of IGD in broader industry adoption.

Working towards developing a formal research agenda for this new field is timely, as momentum begins to build toward the computer taking more autonomy revolutionising traditional design and collaboration, and the need to understand the exact placement of immersive technologies within these emerging opportunities.

Venue

The conference will be held in Sydney at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), please see: https://ismar23.org/. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to adam.drogemuller@mymail.unisa.edu.au