Category: Conferences and Seminars

We invite researchers and educators to submit to FDG 2015 and share insights and cutting-edge research related to game technologies and their use. FDG 2015 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by high-profile industry and academic leaders, panels, and posters. The conference will also host a technical demo session, a Research and Experimental…

Young researchers (up to postgraduate level) in the field of entertainment computing and serious games are invited to apply for participation in an international 5-day seminar (July 5th – July 10th, 2015) at the prestigious Dagstuhl castle – the German Leibniz Center for Computer Science. All participants will also be authors for a textbook on…

The aim of the 5th Asian GAME-ON Conference (GAME-ON ASIA’2015) on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people from ASIA and the rest of the world, in order to exchange ideas on feasible techniques and research findings, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly…

The Games User Research Summit 2015 is proud to announce its annual call for participation.  This year’s summit will take place in San Mateo, California, the day before GDC.  Please see www.gamesuserresearchsig.org for more info.  

VS-Games 2015 aims to meet the challenges of the cross-disciplinary community that work around non-leisure applications of games and game technologies by bringing the community together to share knowledge and experiences. In 2015 we will also aim to bridge the gap between so called serious games and entertainment games. The reason we chose to do…

The “Costumes and Wearables as Game Controllers” studio aims to explore how researchers within the game design, and tangible and embodied interaction community can expand the expressive possibilities inherent in wearables and embodied interfaces by applying inspiration from costuming and fashion design to digital game interfaces.  This will be a hands-on studio where participants will…

Macquarie University Department of Computing and the Ethics Centre would like to invite academics, industry professionals and other interested parties to the Workshop on Games, Ethics and War.

The aim of the fourth annual Pan-Arabic GAMEON-ARABIA Conference (GAMEON-ARABIA’2015) 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…

People of all ages engage in play activities, yet play is still easily associated with children. The rhetorics of play are often tied to ideas of progression; play prepares and teaches children and playing is beneficial for adolescents. Adults, in turn, are expected not to play significantly, their play is often called by other names…