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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1st International Workshop on Pedagogically–driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Saarbrücken (Germany), 18 September 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.cyntelix.com/pdsg2012.aspx<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Deadline for submissions: 16-07-12<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In conjunction with the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2012) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://ec-tel.eu/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Description<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Technology Enhanced Learning is a promising area where Serious Games can have an impact beyond pure entertainment. Despite this potential, two issues stand in the way of achieving learning effects:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Few pedagogical theories are sufficiently formalized to allow implementation, therefore Serious Games seldom fully utilize the potential of pedagogy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Even if present, pedagogical principles are implicitly implemented in the game story, structure, and characters, so that it is very difficult to test different theories on the same game mechanics. This results in low reusability and high costs of pedagogically-driven serious games that hinder their widespread use.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>To address these issues, this workshop focuses on:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Formalizations of pedagogical theories potentially capable to drive the elements in a game's world, such as narrative and characters' behaviour.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Game frameworks based on storytelling, explicit game mechanics and intelligent agents that can provide a programmable environment to implement pedagogical formalizations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Expected participants and domains addressed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Participants to the workshop are researchers from the following areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Serious games and Technology-Enhanced Learning research in general<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Agent technologies (especially in an interactive narrative context). Efforts in the Agent community such as Pogamut that connect agent platforms to games like Unreal Tournament can be the ground where these approaches can be implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Storytelling and Interactive narrative research; narrative engines such as Brutus, Minstrel and Mexica.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Pedagogy theories/frameworks especially at a stage close to or already formalized.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Formalizations of pedagogical theories for the purposes of serious games<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Game frameworks that provide a programmable environment to implement pedagogical formalizations, based on any of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Storytelling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>explicit game mechanics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>intelligent agents <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Approaches to modeling the interdependencies between pedagogy, storytelling and game mechanics in serious games and the translation of these interdependencies into agent behaviour <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Empirical studies addressing the interdependencies between pedagogy, narrative and storytelling and game mechanics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Architectures for serious games that allow reusability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Existing programmable platforms, such as Pogamut, that connect agent platforms to games<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Approaches to “programmable” narrative and storytelling in serious games <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Approaches to “programmable” intelligent agents in serious games<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We encourage submissions of work that can be at all stages of development. Contributions are expected in the following form:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Full papers: max. 10 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Position/short papers: max. 4 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Demo papers: max. 4 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted demo papers. The following needs to be specified:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the purpose of the system to be demonstrated and how this is relevant to the theme of the workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the technology used<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the duration of the demo (not exceeding 30 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadline: Mon 16-07-12<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Paper Submission Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submissions will be handled by EasyChair at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdsg2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template. We encourage you to produce your submission using LaTeX as typesetting tool and the respective LaTeX template.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted authors will be invited to extend their contributions for a special issue in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contact<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contact chairs at: pdsg2012 __at__ easychair.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Twitter: @PDSG2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Organizers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Stefano Bocconi (Cyntelix and Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen, Germany)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Yulia Bachvarova (Cyntelix, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>PD Dr. Ralf Klamma, AOR <a href="mailto:klamma@informatik.rwth-aachen.de">mailto:klamma@informatik.rwth-aachen.de</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'> RWTH Aachen www : <a href="http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/staff/klamma">http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/staff/klamma</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'> Informatik 5 phone : +492418021513,+491735228052 fax: +492418022321<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'> DBIS mail : Informatik 5, Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>