Monday 4 April 2011

Call for Participation

Using Technology for a More Playful Real Interaction: Urban and Pervasive Games

About:
The workshop will focus on games that are based on ubiquitous, pervasive and ambient intelligence. It will be a showcase to show the game development, but also an academic endeavor that will provide tools, theories and frameworks to understand and assess games and the experience of playing games.
The objective of the workshop will be to show games, but also to share expertise when working with games
Submissions:
We are asking for submissions 5 pages long following the IEEE format. More info about the format can be found here

Format: For the reviewing process, we are asking you to submit your contribution in PDF format. If your contribution is accepted, then we will ask you for a RTF format.  
Papers submitted to the main conference could also be presented at the Workshop. However, the review procedures are different and two different submissions have to made, one to the conference and one to the workshop.
Please submit your contributions using the following easychair link, please select the corresponding workshop when doing your submission.
All submissions will be reviewed by experts based on their correctness and the value they offer for the overall workshop. We will aim to have a diverse workshop with several types of submissions.
Type of Submissions:
We are interested in submissions that cover the following topics:
  • Design of Ubiquitous and Urban Games
  • Evaluation of Ubiquitous and Urban Games
  • Tools and Frameworks for Developing Games
  • Use of New Technologies
  • Serious Games
  • Games as Research Tools
  • Philosophical and Ethical Discussions of Ubiquitous and Urban Games
Important Dates:

Workshop paper submissions: July 8th, 2011 
Workshop paper notification: August 8th, 2011 
List of accepted papers on the web: August 8th, 2011 
Camera-ready submissions: September 8th, 2011 
Workshop program on the web: September 8th, 2011 
Workshops dates: December 5th/ December 9th, 2011 
Questions:
Please direct your questions to:
  • Eduardo H. Calvillo Gámez (eduardo.calvillo@gmail.com)
  • Victor Gonzalez (vmgonz@acm.org)