International Symposium on Creative Computing

Theme: Creative Computing for Expanding Cultural, Environmental, and Health Horizons

Description


The International Symposium on Creative Computing (ISCC), a Special Track of QRS 2026, invites original research contributions exploring how Creative Computing reshapes culture, health, and environmental futures. This symposium serves as a multidisciplinary forum connecting digital creativity with the Culture Sector, public health, environmental sustainability, and wellbeing-oriented innovation.

About the Symposium


Cultural institutions—museums, galleries, archives, libraries, heritage sites, and performance spaces—are increasingly embedding digital technology into their operations and audience engagement strategies. At the same time, societies worldwide face significant challenges related to healthcare transformation, climate change, environmental stewardship, and community wellbeing.

Creative Computing is uniquely positioned to address these intersecting challenges:

  • AI driven tools and generative systems are expanding how cultural and environmental narratives are produced and shared.
  • Computational creativity is opening new approaches to learning, participation, and social imagination.
  • Digital innovation is fostering wellbeing focused cultural experiences and new methods for supporting health, accessibility, and inclusion.
  • Creative technologies are enabling new ecological engagements, environmental visualisations, and nature centred cultural interpretation.

ISCC invites contributions that bring together creativity, computing, culture, health, and ecological thinking, responding to this moment of profound digital, social, and environmental change.

Topics of Interest


ISCC welcomes research papers, case studies, creative system prototypes, conceptual frameworks, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Creative Computing and the Culture Sector

  • Working Creatively with Cultural Data
  • Building Accessible and Equitable Cultural and Creative Experiences
  • Creativity, Computing, and Robotics in Cultural Spaces
  • The Role of Creativity and AI for Cultural Organisations
  • Mass Creativity in the Culture Sector

Computational Creativity & Human Experience

  • Computer-Based Creativity Models
  • Computational Creativity and Human Creativity
  • Cognitive and Psychological Issues in Creativity
  • Software-Based Stimulation of Creativity in/with Cultural Organisations
  • Methods and Tools for Creative Processes in the Culture Sector
  • Learning Systems and Creativity for the Culture Sector

Creative Computing for Health & Wellbeing

  • Creative Technologies for Health Communication and Public Engagement
  • Digital Creativity for Mental Health, Rehabilitation, or Therapeutic Contexts
  • AI-Enhanced Cultural Experiences for Accessibility and Health Inclusion
  • Creative Data Practices for Health and Wellbeing
  • Digital Storytelling for Health Education and Behaviour Change

Creative Computing for Environmental Futures

  • Creative and Computational Methods for Environmental Awareness and Action
  • AI and Creative Tools for Climate Interpretation and Ecological Storytelling
  • Data-Driven Creative Engagement with Natural Heritage and Biodiversity
  • Interactive and Immersive Environmental Experiences
  • Sustainable Design, Eco Creativity, and Environment Centred Computing

Submission


Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, and review process can be found at QRS submission.

Each submission can have a maximum of ten pages. It should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, a 300-word abstract, and up to 6 keywords. Shorter version papers (up to six pages) are also allowed.

All papers must conform to the QRS conference proceedings format (PDF | Word DOCX | Latex) and Submission Guideline set in advance by QRS 2026. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay the full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop. Submissions must be in PDF format and uploaded to the conference submission site. Arrangements are being made to publish an extended version of top-quality papers in selected SCI journals.

Submission

General Co-Chairs


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Ross Parry

University of Leicester, UK

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Hongji Yang

Leicester University, UK

Program Co-Chairs


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Tin-Kai Chen

Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan

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Zhanhan Tu

University of Leicester, UK

Program Committee


Name Affiliation Geographic Region
Marwan Al-Akaidi Wigwe University Nigeria
Feng Chen De Montfort University UK
Andry Chowanda BINUS University Indonesia
William C. Chu Fuyao University of Science and Technology/ Tunghai University China/ Taiwan
Fei Dai Southwest Forestry University China
Zhuangzhuang Dai Aston University UK
Qing Duan Yunnan University China
Henrique Cota de Freitas PUC Minas Brazil
Ioanna Giorgi University of Kent UK
Marek Grzes University of Kent UK
Tzung-Cheng Huan National Chiayi University Taiwan
Jie Jian Hunan Normal University China
Delin Jing Changzhou University China
Elizabeth Jochum Aalborg University Denmark
Kenji Kamiya Tainan University of Technology Taiwan
Lim Chai Kim Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Malaysia
Sun-hwa Kim Tainan University of Technology Taiwan
Hua Li Inner Mongolia University China
Chi-Hsiung Liang Lunghwa University of Science and Technology Taiwan
Lin Liu Tsinghua University China
Qinyun Liu Beijing Union University China
Xiaodong Liu Napier University UK
Chen-Shih Lu Tainan University of Technology Taiwan
Chin-Jung Lu Tainan University of Technology Taiwan
Helin Luo National Tainan University of the Arts Taiwan
Jianhua Ma Hosei University Japan
Sicong Ma Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences China
Leandro Soriano Marcolino University of Leicester UK
Talles Medeiros Federal University of Ouro Preto Brazil
Richard Millham Durban University of Technology South Africa
Tome Otsuru Tainan University of Technology Taiwan
Yingchun Tian Changzhou University China
Yuma Tomiyasu Joshibi University of Art and Design Japan
Fengjian Wang National Chiao Tung University Taiwan
Ming-Feng Wang National Pingtung University of Science and Technology Taiwan
Baowen Xu Nanjing University China
Hsi-Hsun Yang National Yunlin University of Science and Technology Taiwan
Aloysius Yapp Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Malaysia
Lu Zhang Beijing Union University China
Qianni Zhang Queen Mary University UK
Xu Zhang Falmouth University UK
Junfeng Zhao Inner Mongolia University China
Zedong Zheng Leicester University UK
Jiantao Zhou Inner Mongolia University China
Shikun Zhou Portsmouth University UK
Hong Zhu Oxford Brookes University UK
Lin Zou De Montfort University UK

Track patrons

Beijing Union University
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
Tunghai University
University of Leicester

Previous


  • ISCC 2025 - Anshun, China (in conjunction with ISSSR 2025)
  • ISCC 2024 - Cambridge (in conjunction with QRS 2024)
  • STCC 2023 - Chiang Mai (in conjunction with QRS 2023)
  • STCC 2022 - Guangzhou (in conjunction with QRS 2022)
  • ICCLC 2021 - Hainan Island, China (in conjunction with QRS 2021)
  • ICCLC 2020 - Macau, China (in conjunction with QRS 2020)
  • ICCLC 2019 - Sofia, Bulgaria (in conjunction with QRS 2019)