[game_edu] Final CFP: Foundations of Digital Games 2009

[R. Michael Young]

[Apologies for multiple posts.]

***  SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  December 19, 2009  ***
***  FDG PROCEEDINGS TO APPEAR IN ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY ***
***  FDG in cooperation with ACM SIGWEB, SIGART, and  SIGCSE ***

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL  
GAMES (FDG 09)
April 26th to 30th, 2009
On-board the Disney Wonder cruise ship, departing from Port Canaveral,  
FL, USA
http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org

Corporate Sponsors:  Microsoft Research, Electronic Arts

FDG ’09, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital  
Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research  
and education involving computer and console games, game technologies,  
game play and game design. Previously known as Academic Days on Game  
Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE 08), this year's  
conference expands its scope to encompass all aspects of Computer  
Science focused game research, along with game-oriented education  
research, and game studies and game design research. The goal of the  
conference is the advancement of the science of digital games,  
including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications,  
educational uses, and modes of play.

The conference will be held aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship,  
departing from and returning to Port Canaveral, FL with port calls in  
the Bahamas and at Disney's private island, Castaway Cay. FDG 2009  
will include presentation of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by  
high-profile industry and academic leaders, hands-on tutorials and  
topical panels on a range of subjects related to games research and  
education. We invite researchers and educators to share insights and  
cutting-edge results relating to game technologies and their use.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Chris Satchell, Chief Technology Officer, Interactive Entertainment  
Business, Microsoft

Matthew MacLaurin, Microsoft Research

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Damian Isla, Naimad Games

Yasmin Kafai, University of Pennsylvania

PANELS AT FDG 2009 WILL COVER THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

The Games Funding Landscape, including representatives from a number  
of private and governmental funding agencies leading the sponsorship  
of games research.

Designing and Managing a Successful Games Education Program, including  
faculty from a range of colleges and universities that have built  
successful programs teaching the process of game creation

Industry/Academic Collaboration, including faculty and industry  
leaders active in the process work working together on joint research  
projects

Building the Games Research Community, including academic leaders  
working to create a scholarly community around the multi-disciplinary  
efforts in games research

TUTORIALS AT FDG 2009 WILL COVER THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

Introduction to Torque 3D 2009, Parallel Programming on the GPU,  
UnrealScript Programming for Classwork and Research and XNA Game  
Studio Express.

SUBMISSIONS

FDG 2009 will accept both full paper and poster submissions (the  
details of each are described below).  To encourage submissions across  
a range of topics, this year's program includes six distinct theme  
areas. Authors may choose to submit their papers to the general  
conference or to a specific theme area of particular relevance. The  
conference themes are a) artificial intelligence, b) computer science  
and games education, c) databases, d) game studies/game design, e)  
graphics and interfaces and f) networking and security. Papers that  
fall outside these topic areas are strongly encouraged and should be  
submitted to the general track. All submissions will be rigorously  
peer reviewed for their technical merit, significance, clarity and  
relevance to the advancement of the sciences of games. All full papers  
must describe a completed unit of work and show rigorous and  
compelling evaluation of the ideas they present. Poster submissions  
should describe novel work in progress that is not at the same level  
of research maturity as a full submission.

PAPERS AND POSTERS

All accepted paper and poster submissions will be published in the  
conference proceedings, which will be available on a USB drive. For a  
paper or poster to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must  
register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy  
submission. One author of each accepted submission will be provided  
with a special registration package that allows them to register at  
the early registration rate.  Papers, posters and doctoral consortium  
publications from this year's conference will be included in the ACM  
Digital Library. The  conference is organized in cooperation with ACM  
SIGWEB, SIGART, and  SIGCSE and expects approval of in-cooperation  
status with additional  ACM SIGs soon.

Electronic paper and poster submission is required.  Authors should  
submit their papers at the conference submission site, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfdg2009 
. Both paper and poster authors must submit their papers by 11PM  
Pacific time on December 19, 2008. Papers must not exceed eight pages  
and poster submissions must not exceed two pages.  All submissions  
must comply with the official ACM proceedings format using one of the  
templates provided at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/ 
template.html. FDG 2009 will not accept any paper that, at the time of  
submission, is under review for or has already been published or  
accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. This  
restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other  
venues with a limited audience.

THEME AREA TOPICS

Authors whose papers align with a particular theme area should choose  
to submit their paper under that theme. Theme areas for FDG 2009 are  
defined broadly and include Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science  
and Games Education, Databases, Game Studies | Game Design, Graphics  
and Interfaces and Networks and Security.  For more details about the  
specific tracks, please see the conference website (http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org 
).

IMPORTANT DATES

December 19, 2008       Full paper, poster and Doctoral Consortium  
submission deadline

January 30, 2009        Paper, poster, and Doctoral Consortium  
notifications of acceptance/rejection

February 20, 2009       Camera-ready copy due. Presenting author  
conference registration deadline

April 26-30, 2009       2009 Int’l Conference on Foundations of  
Digital Games

April 30, 2009          Doctoral Consortium

FDG DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The FDG Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a limited  
group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research  
interests and career objectives with a panel of established games  
researchers and industry professionals. The consortium has the  
following objectives: (1) to provide a setting for mutual feedback on  
participants' current research and guidance on future research  
directions; (2) develop a supportive community of scholars and a  
spirit of collaborative research; (3) support a new generation of  
researchers with information and advice on academic, research,  
industrial, and nontraditional career paths; and (4) contribute to the  
conference goals through interaction with other researchers and  
participation in conference events.

The Doctoral Consortium will be held on April 30th, 2008, the last day  
of the FDG conference, and will be hosted at the Orlando offices of  
Electronic Arts’ Tiburon Studios. Attendance will be limited to a) FDG  
Program and Organizing Committees (who will serve as reviewers and  
discussants for student presentations) and b) graduate students whose  
proposals are accepted for presentation.  Students whose submissions  
to the Doctoral Consortium are accepted for presentation will receive  
complimentary conference registration and a fixed allowance for travel/ 
housing.

The deadline for application to the Doctoral Consortium is December  
19, 2009.  For more details, see the Doctoral Consortium Call for  
Papers available on the FDG web site or contact Ian Horswill, Doctoral  
Consortium Chair, at ian at northwestern.edu.

FDG 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference Chair
Jim Whitehead, Univ. California, Santa Cruz

Program Chair
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State Univ.

Finances Chair
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Simon Fraser Univ.

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Kent Foster, Microsoft Corporation
G. Michael Youngblood, Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte

Doctoral Consortium Chair
Ian Horswill, Northwestern Univ.

Webmaster
Bruce Gooch, Univ. of Victoria

FDG 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program At-Large Members

Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pat Langley, Arizona State Univ.
Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Overmars, Utrecht University
Ian Parberry, Univ. of North Texas
Yusuf Pisan, Univ. of Technology Sydney
Zoran Popovic, Univ. of Washington
Walt Scacchi, Univ. of California, Irvine
Gita Reese Sukthankar, Univ. of Central Florida
Bill Swartout, Univ. of Southern California Institute for Creative  
Technologies
R. Michael Young (program chair), North Carolina State Univ.

Program Theme Area Members

Artificial Intelligence
Ian Horswill, Northwestern Univ.
Simon Lucas (theme co-chair), Univ. of Essex
Michael Mateas (theme co-chair), Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Julian Togelius, IDSIA

Computer Science and Games Education
Tiffany Barnes (theme co-chair), Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte
Wanda Dann, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Zyda (theme co-chair), Univ. of Southern California

Databases
Johannes Gerhke (theme chair), Cornell Univ.
Beng Chin Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore
Walker White, Cornell Univ.

Game Studies | Game Design
TL Taylor (theme chair), IT Univ. Copenhagen
Tracy Fullerton, Univ. of Southern California
Doug Thomas, Univ. of Southern California

Graphics and Interfaces
Bruce Gooch, Univ. of Victoria
Jessica Hodgins, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Steve Feiner (theme chair), Columbia Univ.

Networking and Security
Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wu-Chang Feng (theme chair), Portland State Univ.
Travis Schluessler, Intel Corporation


FDG STEERING COMMITTEE

John Laird, Univ. of Michigan
Ian Parberry, Univ. of North Texas,
Jim Whitehead, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State Univ.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please see www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org for additional  
information, or email Jim Whitehead, Conference Chair, at ejw at cs.ucsc.edu 
.

R. Michael Young
Director, Liquid Narrative Group
Department of Computer Science, NC State University
http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/