Category: Conferences and Seminars

There is hardly any subject in contemporary literary, cultural, and media studies that is discussed and researched with as much controversy as “the fantastic”. Since theoretical debate on the subject was initiated in the second half of the 20th century, largely by Tzvetan Todorov and Roger Callois, research on the fantastic has become a globally relevant, interdisciplinary, and rapidly developing field of scholarship. The field’s…

This session will explore the possibility of theorising video games in relationship to and within art history. The session aims to locate and investigate questions such as: Can we identify moments when art history and the history of video games are bound together? Are there modes of enquiry that can be developed to mutual benefit?…

The community of video game researchers has been rapidly evolving for the past few years, extending and modifying existing methodologies used by the human-computer interaction (HCI) community to the environment of digital games. This one-day workshop focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of user interfaces in video games development.

Eugène Loos writes… I am involved in the organization of the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population http://2016.hci.international/itap  that will be held jointly with HCI International 2016, 17-22 July 2016, Toronto, Canada.

The Control Conference 2015, the Holland’s premier game development event, invites game researchers to submit proposals to contribute to the Game Research Showcase that will be part of the Applied Game Summit on the third day of the conference.

The aim of the  annual Pan-Arabic GAMEON-ARABIA Conference (GAMEON ARABIA’2016) on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring game developers from the Middle East in contact with local and international researchers and games people in order to exchange ideas on programming and programming techniques related to game development. Secondly it aims to steer young people from the Middle…

Tomasz Z. Majkowski writes: I am aware that our paths do not cross with Digital Humanities crowd as often as one may assume. Yet, the main DH conference in 2016 will take place in my home city of Krakow and organizers (great people, engaged in computational stylistics) asked me to cordially invite any game-related poster…

EVAA is an interdisciplinary conference on visual technologies in culture, the arts and humanities. It is affiliated with EVA London (http://www.eva-london.org/).  We welcome contributions from scholars, practitioners and professionals from fields including digital humanities, computer and information science, design, media, art practice, GLAM and heritage. In all these fields data and its representations are transforming practice…

The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their study and development. The Area is also offering a three hour workshop titled “Making the Makerspace: A Look Into the Creation of the iSpace” on the first day of the conference.

Lennart Nacke writes… Dear CHI PLAY researchers, We welcome submissions for bids to host and chair CHI PLAY 2018. If you are interested, please send your bid directly via email to the Chair of the CHI PLAY steering committee Lennart Nacke at lennart.nacke@acm.org by September 18, 2015 with the subject: “CHI PLAY Conference Hosting Proposal”.