Linking Computing with Creativity with Software Engineering
Abstract:
Computing technology has wide applications in the areas of arts,
entertainment, games, mobile applications, multimedia, product and
web design and other pervasive interactive systems. Due to the
creative nature of these applications, computing technology needs
to be developed specifically to tackle the conceptual complexity
that does not exist in other applications.
The challenges faced come from creativeness of applications that
involve knowledge in the disciplines of the Humanities and Arts
normally used to describe activities at human behaviour level.
It is the rapid development of computing technology that enables
the creative industry and it is also this rapid development that
requires serious academic discussion.
Many aspects of computing technology will be enriched to cope with
the demands of creative applications. Software engineering which
normally plays a crucial part in the whole computing technology
would certainly face the challenges of further development in terms
of theory, methodology and processes.
The talk will present initial observations to some of the phenomena
in the above area and speculate what may be developed in Software
Engineering to help with the current situation.
Professor Hongji Yang (PhD):
Working for both the Software Technology Research Laboratory (STRL) and the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University.
His research interests include Software Engineering, Creative Computing and Internet Computing.
He has published five books and nearly 400 refereed papers.
He is a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society. He has been an organising member for many international conferences, including acting as a Programme Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM9) and the Programme Chair for IEEE Computer Software and Application Conference (COMPSAC2).
He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Creative Computing (IJCrC).
