[AISWorld] Iberian Workshop on Serious Games and Meaningful Play (SGaMePlay'2011)

[Álvaro Rocha]

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*         First Iberian Workshop on Serious Games and Meaningful Play (SGaMePlay'2011)            *
*                            June 15-18, 2011, Chaves, Portugal                                   *
* http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=72&lang=en *
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Scope:
Digital Games, also referred as Video Games, are becoming an important and disseminated cultural product enabled by several concurrent factors such as: several recent technological developments, the high availability of powerful and mobile but inexpensive computational platforms, and the increased literacy of the population in respect to information technologies. Traditionally, Digital Games have been mainly designed for entertainment purposes. However, as it happens with conventional games, game play is a highly structured activity that can be designed to result in a meaningful play. This approach is the foundation of Serious Games, an emergent and multidisciplinary research topic focused on using computer games with other purposes than pure entertainment. Serious Games have many applications domains such as education, training, physical and cognitive rehabilitation, urban planning, etc.
This workshop intends to be a forum where researchers, practitioners and industry representatives have the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and latest research results of meaningful play and serious games. The workshop intends to cover several dimensions of the original research as regarding to theoretical, methodological and technological developments and also new applications.

Call for Contributions:
We invite authors to submit unpublished work to the First Iberian WorkShop in Serious Games and Meaningful Play - SGaMePlay’2011. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of serious games. Submitted work must not be not under revision elsewhere.
Download CFP: http://bit.ly/sgameplay2011-cfp-en

Topics:
Topics of interest include any area related to Serious Games and Meaningful Play. In particular, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
? serious game design
? characters, story and storytelling
? content creation
? serious game development (systems and frameworks)
? game engines
? enabling technologies
? multiplayer serious games (massive mode, collaboration, competition)
? virtual, augmented and alternate realities.
? AI for serious gaming
? natural user interfaces
? usability analysis
? pervasive and mobile games
? evaluation and user studies
? social and psychological impact of digital games
? case studies and applications

Submission and Paper Format:
Submissions must be of one of two types: Full Paper (up to 6 pages) or Short Paper (up to 4 pages). Papers must be written in one of the official conference languages (english, spanish or portuguese) and must follow the conference format guidelines (below).
Format guidelines: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2011/papersformat.pdf
MS Word template: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2011/papersformat.dot
Although submissions shall be done using PDF file format, camera ready versions of the accepted papers must be delivered in MS Word format also.
Peer review will be double blinded. Thus, submitted papers must conceal authorship, in particular, authors shall: do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper; anonymize citations to and mentions of their own prior work; do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. Papers will be judged on their relevance, technical content and correctness, and the clarity of presentation of the research.
Submissions must be done using EasyChair : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sgameplay2011

Publication and Indexing:
The Workshop full papers, will be published on the conference main proceedings on paper and on CD. The Workshop short papers will be published on the conference CD proceedings.
Full Papers will be sent to ISI, IEEE XPlore and EBSCO. Short papers will be sent to IEEE Xplore and EBSCO.

Important Dates:
• Deadline for paper submission: February 26, 2011
• Notification of paper acceptance: March 25, 2011
• Deadline for final versions and conference registration: April 3, 2011
• Conference dates: June 15-18, 2011

Program Committee (not closed):
Maximino Bessa--Univ. Trás os Montes e Alto Douro,PT
Josep Blat--Univ. Pompeu Fabra,ES
Pedro Branco--Univ. Minho,PT
Beatriz Carmo--Univ. de Lisboa,PT
Ana Paula Cláudio--Univ. de Lisboa,PT
António Coelho--Univ. Porto,PT
Nuno Correia--Univ. Nova de Lisboa,PT
António Cardoso Costa--Inst. Politécnico do Porto,PT
Sara de Freitas--Univ. Coventry,UK
Francisco José Gallego Duran--Univ. Alicante,ES
Abel Gomes--Univ. Beira Interior,PT
Daniel Gonçalves--Univ. Técnica Lisboa,PT
Sergi Grau--Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya,ES
Ido Iurgel--Univ. Minho,PT
Pedro Faria Lopes--ISCTE-IUL,PT
Óscar Mealha--Univ. Aveiro,PT
Pedro Miguel Moreira--Inst. Politécnico de Viana do Castelo,PT
Leonel Morgado--Univ. Trás os Montes e Alto Douro,PT
Verónica Orvalho--Univ. Porto,PT
João Madeiras Pereira--Univ. Técnica Lisboa,PT
Rui Prada--Univ. Técnica Lisboa,PT
António Ramires--Univ. Minho,PT
Luís Paulo Reis--Univ. Porto,PT
Rui Rodrigues--Univ. Porto,PT
Nuno Rodrigues--Inst. Politécnico do Cávado e Ave,PT
Teresa Romão--Univ. Nova de Lisboa,PT
Licínio Roque--Univ. Coimbra,PT
Frutuoso Silva--Univ. Beira Interior,PT
Lluís Solano Albajes--Univ. Politècnica Catalunya,ES
António Augusto de Sousa--Univ. Porto,PT
Ana Isabel Veloso--Univ. Aveiro,PT
Nelson Zagalo--Univ. Minho,PT

 
Website: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=72&lang=en


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Álvaro Rocha
Associate Professor
University Fernando Pessoa
Praça 9 de Abril, 349
4249-004 Porto
Portugal