We are pleased to announce a special track on Co-creativity with Generative AI at the upcoming ArtsIT2025. This track invites submissions exploring the exciting intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and human creativity, focusing on collaborative, co-creative processes in various domains, from arts and design to science and engineering. We aim to create a multidisciplinary space for exploring how Generative AI (GenAI) can work alongside human creators in fostering innovative, novel, and meaningful outcomes.

We invite original research, case studies, and best practice reports on, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Co-creativity and Improvisation: Investigating the dynamic processes of co-creating with AI, especially in real-time or improvisational settings, where human and AI roles are fluid and interdependent.
• Fine-Tuning and Control of Foundation Models: Exploring how large pre-trained AI models can be adapted or fine-tuned for specific co-creative tasks, and how human creators can guide or influence these models for enhanced collaboration.
• Human Feedback in AI Systems (RLHF): Research on how human feedback can be integrated into AI models to improve creativity, decision-making, and performance, and the role of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in co-creative scenarios.
• AI Feedback in Co-Creation (RLAIF): Examining the role of AI providing feedback to humans in creative processes, where reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF) may guide or challenge human creators in new and unexpected ways.
• Human Factors in AI-Human Interaction: Understanding the cognitive, psychological, and social factors that influence how humans interact with AI in co-creativity, including how trust, autonomy, and agency affect collaborative outcomes.
• Perception-Action Models with AI: Exploring the interplay between perception and action when working with AI agents, and how perception-action loops influence co-creativity in real-time collaborative tasks.
• Agentic AI Models in Creative Work: Examining how AI systems that exhibit agentic behavior (e.g., taking initiative, problem-solving, and goal-setting) can enhance human creativity, including in areas like art, music, writing, and scientific discovery.
• Case Studies and Best Practices in Co-Creative Use of AI: Real-world case studies and examples demonstrating the successful integration of AI in co-creative processes, along with lessons learned and practical insights on best practices for optimizing AI-human collaboration.

Prof. Shlomo Dubnov
Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego’s research center, CALIT2, USA

Shlomo Dubnov graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy in composition and holds a doctorate in computer science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the prestigious IDF Talpiot program. Prior to joining UC San Diego, he served as a researcher at the world-renowned Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music (IRCAM), in Paris, and later headed the multimedia track for the Department of Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University, in Israel. Dr. Dubnov conducted numerous research projects on advanced audio processing and retrieval, computer generated music, and other multimedia applications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Secretary of IEEE’s Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music. Dr. Dubnov is currently Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego’s research center, CALIT2, and teaches in the Music and Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts programs.

• Prof. Shlomo Dubnov, Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego’s research center, CALIT2, USA

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer – LNICST series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: ArtsIT Conference Proceedings.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec, and Zentralblatt MATH.

Available Journals

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on AI and Robotics
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things (Scopus)

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discounted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors.

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.
• Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

– Regular papers should be up to 12-20 pages in length.
– Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section below).

How do I submit a paper in Confy?

1. Go to Confy+ website
2. Login or sign up as new user
3. Select your desired Track
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions

Alternatively, go to home page of Confy+ and click on “Open conferences”.

Submission guidelines

– Papers should be in English.
– Double-Blind Review. Papers have to be submitted anonymously.
– Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal.
   Such papers will be rejected without review.
– The paper submissions must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit section below).
– Authors are required to adhere to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.

*As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images ought to have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text). 

Download HERE.