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<jats:p>This year ICER was held at the University of California, San Diego in its new 2.5 day format, running from the 12th to the 14th of August with the Doctoral Consortium held on the 11th. Paper submissions were a new record for ICER with 68 submissions. The Program Committee accepted 22 papers, 17 research papers and 5 discussion papers, a 31% acceptance rate. There were also 12 doctoral consortium presentations ably led by Jonas Boudstedt and Allison Elliot Tew and a series of lightning talks organized by Brian Dorn and chaired by Alison Clear. The keynote speaker for this conference was Scott Klemmer from UC San Diego, who spoke about "Design at Large" and how his work on design can be applied to CS education.</jats:p>