[game_edu] CFP: Interactive Storytelling'08

[S. Gold]

*** Early Registration Deadline: 15 October, 2008 ***
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                CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

          *** Interactive Storytelling'08 ***
         1st Joint International Conference on
            Interactive Digital Storytelling

         26-29 November 2008, Erfurt, Germany
          http://www.ai.fh-erfurt.de/ICIDS08
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The first joint conference of the two previous European conference series:
- TIDSE ("Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling") and
- ICVS ("Virtual Storytelling -- Using Virtual Reality Technologies for
Storytelling") 

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INVITED SPEAKERS: 
*Andrew Stern*: game designer, co-creator of "Façade" and Grand Text Auto
*Marie-Laure Ryan*: narratologist, author of "Narrative as Virtual Reality"
and "Avatars of Story"

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
Out of 76 submissions, 19 full papers were selected by an international
programme committee, completed by short papers, posters and demonstrations.
Proceedings are published by Springer Verlag.

WORKSHOPS: 
*Pen-and-Paper Role-Playing* and *Impro Theatre*: Learning Interactive
Storytelling principles from non-digital interactive storytelling forms
*Authoring Tools*: Comparative insights into the state of the art in
creation of Interactive Narratives.

PANELS and DISCUSSIONS:
*Industry panel*: Application of research results to marketable products
*Authoring panel*: Authoring and Creation in Interactive Storytelling

EXHIBITION: 
*Demonstrations*: Live impressions of research prototypes and applications
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The conference will be held in Erfurt, Thuringia, in the centre of Germany,
during the atmospheric time of its famous Christmas Market in the medieval
city centre. 
Please have a look at our WEBSITE for updates of the programme and for
travel information.
http://www.ai.fh-erfurt.de/ICIDS08


Contact: Prof. Ulrike Spierling
FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences
Altonaer Str. 25 
99085 Erfurt, Germany
Email: contact at interactive-storytelling.com

-- 
Susan Gold
goldfile at gmail.com

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde

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