From: marco.taisch@POLIMI.IT
We invite you to participate in the "Learning with Games" Conference,
24th – 26th September 2007 Sophia Antipolis, France
*** Conference website ***
www.lg2007.org
Sponsors:
European Commission - DG Information Society and Media
PRIME EU Project
PROLIX EU Project
LABORANOVA EU Project
IPROMS
IFIP
Imaginary
Angils
*** Call for Papers ***
"Learning with Games" seeks original, high-quality research papers and demos in all areas related to serious games, including social sciences, methodologies and artwork. Research papers should describe results that contribute to advancements to the state-of-the-art of Serious Games.
Parallel sessions are foreseen for the presentation of scientific/technical papers as well as the experience in using games for higher education purpose. The global gaming community is invited to exploit the conference to disseminate its scientific and technical results.
A selection of the presented papers will be published on special issues of the International Journal of Production Planning & Control.
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstracts via the web site; these must be at least 1500-word long and must be submitted in .doc format.
*** Invitation to Exhibit ***
We invite companies, government organizations, and academic institutions to showcase serious games along with all related technologies and services -- hardware, software, integrated systems, innovations, literature or anything else of interest to our conference participants. Posters and research demos will also be located near the exhibits.
During the three days of the Forum space and facilities for poster sessions and exhibitions will be made available to participants.
*** Topics of interest: ***
Topics of interest to "Learning with Games" are, but not restricted to:
| · Game design · Digital storytelling · Non player characters · Artificial intelligence · Game programming · Game rendering · Audio programming · Visual content creation · Music composition · Game production · Alternate and mixed reality · Gamer communities · Executive learning and teaching | · Game physics · Simulation · User interfaces · Online games and networking · Mobile games and ubiquity · Agile development · Case studies · User studies and evaluation · Game critical analysis · Legal, societal and political impact · Intellectual property rights · Distribution models · Learning Evaluation |
*** Important Dates ***
| Submission of Extended Abstracts for Technical Papers | May 31st 2007 |
| Notification of Acceptance | June 30th 2007 |
| Submission of Full Papers | July 31st 2007 |
| LG 2007 | 24 September 2007 |
*** Accommodation and Registration: ***
The registration fee is
| Early bird Registration Fee | 500€ |
| Registration Fee | 550€ |
| On site registration | 650€ |
The venue is the: Grand Hotel Mercure Sophia Country Club ****
Located between Nice and <st1:city w:st="on">Antibes</st1:city>, 15 minutes from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cannes</st1:city></st1:place> in the Sophia Antipolis park science.
Hotel is built in a <st1:metricconverter productid="12 hectare" w:st="on">12 hectare</st1:metricconverter> landscaped garden and has two swimming pools, twenty tennis courts, golf course, sauna, gym, bar and deluxe brasserie.
*** Conference Organization: ***
Conference Chairs
- <st1:personname productid="Marco Garetti" w:st="on">Marco Garetti</st1:personname>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- <st1:personname productid="Marco Taisch" w:st="on">Marco Taisch</st1:personname>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Asbjorn Rolstadas, SINTEF, Norway
- Alvaro de Oliveira, AlfaMicro Ltd., Portugal
- <st1:personname productid="Lucia Pannese" w:st="on">Lucia Pannese</st1:personname>, imaginary, Italy
Program Committee
- <st1:personname productid="Bjorn Andersen" w:st="on">Bjorn Andersen</st1:personname>, SINTEF, Norway
- <st1:personname productid="Jacopo Cassina" w:st="on">Jacopo Cassina</st1:personname>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Carsten Magerkurth, SAP, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- Max Möller, Danish <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Education</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- <st1:personname productid="Manuel Oliveira" w:st="on">Manuel Oliveira</st1:personname>, AlfaMicro Ltd., Portugal
Local Organising Committee
- <st1:personname productid="Jacopo Cassina" w:st="on">Jacopo Cassina</st1:personname>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- <st1:personname productid="Marco Gerosa" w:st="on">Marco Gerosa</st1:personname>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- <st1:personname productid="Sergio Terzi" w:st="on">Sergio Terzi</st1:personname>, University of Bergamo, Italy
- <st1:personname productid="Marco Taisch" w:st="on">Marco Taisch</st1:personname>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- <st1:personname productid="Chiara Zigliani" w:st="on">Chiara Zigliani</st1:personname>, Consorzio Politecnico Innovazione, Italy
International Scientific Committee
- Maria Anastasiou, Intracom, Greece
- <st1:personname productid="Slavko Dolinsek" w:st="on">Slavko Dolinsek</st1:personname>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Primorska</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Slovenia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- <st1:personname productid="Heiko Duin" w:st="on">Heiko Duin</st1:personname>, BIBA, Germany
- <st1:personname productid="Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen" w:st="on">Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen</st1:personname>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Aalborg University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- <st1:personname productid="Dimitris Kiritsis" w:st="on">Dimitris Kiritsis</st1:personname>, EPFL, Switzerland
- <st1:personname productid="Paul Lefrere" w:st="on">Paul Lefrere</st1:personname>, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Julien Etienne Mascolo, CRF, Italy
- <st1:personname productid="Roumen Nikolov" w:st="on">Roumen Nikolov</st1:personname>, Sofia University, Bulgaria
- <st1:personname productid="Jens Riis" w:st="on">Jens Riis</st1:personname>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Aalborg</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place>
- Petko Rouskov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
- <st1:personname productid="Angela Sasse" w:st="on">Angela Sasse</st1:personname>, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>, United Kingdom
- Leonie Schaefer, European Commission - DG IST
- <st1:personname productid="William Seager" w:st="on">William Seager</st1:personname>, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>, United Kingdom
- Ritta Smeds, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Helsinki</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Technology
- <st1:personname productid="Ingrid Spjelkavik" w:st="on">Ingrid Spjelkavik</st1:personname>, SINTEF, Norway
- Klaus D. Thoben, BIBA, Germany
- <st1:personname productid="Josef Withalm" w:st="on">Josef Withalm</st1:personname>, Siemens, Austria
"Learning with Games"
24th – 26th September 2007 Sophia Antipolis, France
www.lg2007.org