CS 2014 - Creative Science Shanghai: A discussion about the future

The theme of this meeting is “Product and Business Innovation“. It builds on earlier events The Outer Limits, Creative Science 2010, Creative Science 2011, Creative Science 2013 and AOM’13, The methodology employed is that we invite researchers to submit fictional stories that extrapolate forward by 10+ years a vision of their area of research. This approach is called Science-Fiction Prototyping (SFP) and has the aim of providing a means for differing members of society to have conversations about the kind of futures they would like (or not!). For this workshop we are especially interested in SFPs that explore how intelligent environment technology (the Internet, Internet-of-Things, robots, virtual reality etc) or new business models might lead to disruptive opportunities. While this event is particularity well suited to researchers submit an SFP about their research, this workshop is open to all and you would be welcome to register as presenter or as a member of the audience and simply enjoy the presentations.
The registration cost of this event also covers the cost of attending the ’21st Century Robot‘, Imagine 2014 and the ‘Industrial Forum‘ which complement this workshop. This workshop will be hosted by Intelligent Environments 2014 (30th June-4th July 2014) which you might also want to consider attending (but that is optional; its your choice!).
The SciFi Prototype Structure
Your Science-Fiction Prototype (SFP) should be 10-12 pages (for full SFPs) or 4-6 pages (for short SFPs). Full SFPs, should start with an Introduction (half a page), continue with a 1-2 page section that discusses published research that underpins your story (including references to research publications). Next should be a 9-10 page story (or set of short stories) that illustrates your vision of the future (and stretches your ideas beyond the ‘here & now’), Finally, the fictional stories (prototypes) should conclude with a short summary (half to one page, say) that provides an overall comment (reflection) on your effort to use your fictional prototype as a means to motivate future technology innovation or business models. References should be included at the end of the paper. For short SFPs, they would be pro-rata smaller mirrors of the above. Whilst the most common creative instrument is written fiction, we are equally open to other creative mediums such as animation, acting, poetry or music. All fictional stories (prototypes) accepted will be published by IOS Press. The format of the papers should adhere to the IOS publication guidelines.