Publications

Published journal articles and conference proceedings

• Gongora, L., & Dix, A. (2012). Service Design on Stage: Theatrical Improvisation for Participatory Design. Touchpoint: The Journal of Service Design, 4(2). Cologne, Germany.
• Dix, A., & Gongora, L. (2011). Externalisation and Design. DESIRE ’11: Creativity and Innovation in Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Best Long Paper nomination.
• Gongora, L. (2011). Exploring the body and mind connection via improvisation in the design process. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design (DESIRE ’11) (pp. 427–428). Association for Computing Machinery.
• Gongora, L., & Dix, A. (2010). Brainstorming is a Bowl of Spaghetti: An In-Depth Study of Collaborative Design Process and Creativity Methods with Experienced Design Practitioners. ICDC 2010: First International Conference on Design Creativity, Kobe, Japan.
• Gongora, L. (2010). Exploring Creative Process via Improvisation and the Design Method RePlay. DESIRE ’10: Creativity and Innovation in Design, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 44–51.Author-owned PDF. Publication record
• Gongora, L. (2010). Scanning the Terrain: Creativity and Embodiment — Exploring the Use of Bad Ideas, Improvisation, Reflection and RePlay. CEPHAD: The Borderland between Philosophy and Design Research, plenary sessions and supplementary items of the CEPHAD 2010 Conference. Copenhagen: Danish Design School Press.
• Gongora, L., Onarheim, B., & Wiltschnig, S. (2010). Creativity in design, arts and science: Exploring everyday phenomena: A cross-pollination of approaches. Interfaces, 83, 12–13.
• Al Takrouri, B., Canonico, A., Gongora, L., Janiszewski, M., Toader, C., & Schrader, A. (2007). eyeJOT - A Ubiquitous Context-aware Campus Information System. 2007 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Birmingham, UK, pp. 122–127.

Doctoral consortia, presentations and posters

• Doctoral Consortium, DESIRE ’11, Eindhoven, 2011.
• Doctoral Consortium, DIS 2010, Copenhagen, 2010.
• Creativity in Action — Experimental Creativity Methods for Data Collection and Creative Process. Poster, DIS 2010, Copenhagen.
• Understanding the Impact of Explicit Design-Space Representations on Innovative Design. Poster, International Summer School “Theories of Creative Design,” Gargnano, Italy, 2009.
• RePlay: A Workshop Exploring Creativity in Action. TEI 2012, Kingston, Ontario.Workshop proceedings record
• RePlay — Creativity in Action. Invited talks, Tudor Innovation Labs, Luxembourg, and Deutsche Telekom Design Laboratories, Berlin, 2011.
• RePlay — Body, Movement, Gesture & Tactility in Interaction with Mobile Devices. Presentation, Mobile HCI, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011.
• Models of Creative Design. Presentation, 2nd International Summer School, Aveiro University, Portugal, 2010; DESIRE Project Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 2010.

Unpublished research and manuscripts in preparation

• Gongora, L., & Tait, E. F. (n.d.). The Power of Play: Exploring Bend Interaction as a Design Affordance in Co-Design Process via Utilizing Theatrical Improvisation (RePlay) with Young Makers. [Unpublished manuscript].Co-author: Euan Fraser Tait.
• Gongora, L. Scaffolding Creativity in Action: An Embodied, Relational Approach to Human–AI Creative Collaboration. [Manuscript in preparation].Drawn from the dissertation. Not published, accepted or peer reviewed.

  Download Creativity Companion paper (unpublished PDF)

  PDF draft title: Scaffolding Creativity in Action: Designing AI as a Creative Companion for Embodied, Relational Creativity.