[game_edu] Finall Call for Participation, VS-Games 2013, 5th Intern. Conf. on Games & Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, 11-13 Sept 2013

[Christos Gatzidis]

http://www.vsgames2013.org/

The fifth outing of the International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications will be hosted at Bournemouth University, UK between the 11th and the 13th of September 2013. With the conference organized in previous years at locations such as Coventry (UK), Braga (Portugal), Athens (Greece) and Genoa (Italy), it will take place, for 2013, at the state of the art Kimmeridge House building of Bournemouth University, situated at the main Talbot campus of the institution.

The conference has technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers (full, short and posters) will be published in IEEE Xplore.

The development and deployment of games with a purpose beyond entertainment and with considerable connotations with more serious aims is an exciting area with immense academic but also commercial potential. This potential presents both immediate opportunities but also numerous significant challenges to the interested parties involved, as a result of the relatively recent emergence and popularity of the medium. The VS Games 2013 conference aims to address this variety of relevant contemporary challenges that the increasingly cross-disciplinary communities involved in serious games are currently facing. This will be achieved by, amongst other ways, the comprehensive dissemination of successful case studies and development practices, the sharing of theories, conceptual frameworks and methodologies and, finally, the discussion of evaluation approaches and their resulting studies.

For VS Games 2013 we sought contributions from researchers, developers from the industry, practitioners and decision-makers which aim to advance the state of the art in all of the technologies related to serious games. This was in the following areas;

• Game design
• Virtual environments
• Game-based learning methodologies
• Mixed and augmented reality
• Computer graphics
• Gamification
• Case studies/user studies for serious games and virtual worlds
• Mobile gaming
• Interactive storytelling
• Application areas
• AI for serious games
• Educational/learning theories and their application
• Visualization
• Pervasive gaming
• Human-computer interaction
• User modeling
• Alternate reality
• Simulation
• Platforms and tools

Keynotes are to be delivered by Professor Adrian Cheok (Keio University), Professor Anthony Steed (UCL) and Dr Chris Peters (KTH Royal Institute of Technology).

You can follow the conference by Twitter here;

https://twitter.com/vsgames2013

Apologies for any cross posting and multiple posts.

Christos Gatzidis

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Dr Christos Gatzidis
BSc(Hon's), MA, PhD, PGCert, MIET
Senior Lecturer In Creative Technology
Creative Technology Framework Leader

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Doran, J. and Gatzidis, C., 2012. UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide. Birmingham: Packt Publishing.: http://link.packtpub.com/bbexNT

VS-Games 2013 (the 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications), 11-13 September 2013, Bournemouth: http://www.vsgames2013.org/

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