CfP: IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS – IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2013)

http://eldar.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/dashlock/cig2013/

Games are an ideal domain for the study of computational intelligence. They are not only fun to play and interesting to observe, but they also provide competitive and dynamic environments that model many real-world problems. The 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions in this field. The financial support of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is pending.

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Book: “Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism” by Erik Champion et al.

ETC Press is excited to announce the release of “Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism” by Erik Champion et al.

Are games worthy of academic attention? Can they be used effectively in the classroom, in the research laboratory, as an innovative design tool, as a persuasive political weapon? Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism aims to answer these and more questions. It features chapters by authors chosen from around the world, representing fields as diverse as architecture, ethnography, puppetry, cultural studies, music education, interaction design and industrial design. How can we design, play with and reflect on the contribution of game mods, related tools and techniques, to both game studies and to society as a whole?

For more information, and to purchase or download a copy, visit:

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/content/game-mods

CfP: Ludomusicology Conference 2013 12–13 April 2013, University of Liverpool

Ludomusicology Conference 2013, 12–13 April 2013, University of Liverpool

Challenges and Innovations

The Ludomusicology research group will be hosting a two day conference on video game audio to take place on the 12th and 13th of April, 2013 at Liverpool University. Building upon the foundation of last year’s successful RMA Study Day, the conference will include research papers and discussion workshops.

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CfP: VS-Games 2013, September 11-13, UK

VS-Games 2013 (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.

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CfP: Physical and Digital– Game Research Lab Spring Seminar 2013, 29-31 May 2013, Tampere, Finland

Call for Papers: Physical and Digital in Games and Play seminar
May 29-31, 2013, University of Tampere, FINLAND

Digital games have had a visible role on the contemporary rise of game cultures and game studies, but there are still under-explored research areas in the relation of digital games to other forms of games and play, including e.g. traditional card and board games, play with physical toys, paper-based puzzles, and physical sport games. The research carried out in such areas holds potential for both interesting comparative work in theoretical and empirical game studies, as well as for serving inspiration for experimental design research into hybrid, digital-analogue or augmented game designs.

‘Physical and Digital in Games and Play’ seminar invites presentations from multiple topics related to the unique characteristics of physical play or digital play, as well as to the interplay of these two. The aim of the seminar is to bring together scholars of games and play from diverse fields and to stimulate dialogue between them.

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Job: Assistant Professor – Drexel Game Design Program, USA

Assistant Professor – Drexel Game Design Program, Philadelphia PA, USA

Application: https://www.drexeljobs.com/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1354649983428

Drexel University seeks applications for a full time tenure-track faculty position available in its Drexel Game Design Program, a collaborative effort between the Digital Media Program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and the Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering. The start date for the anticipated position is September 1, 2013.

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Job: Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty, Open Rank and Tenure, Simulation and Digital Entertainment, University of Baltimore, USA

Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty, Open Rank and Tenure, Simulation and Digital Entertainment
Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences

Vacancy Number 2013-011

Position Type: Faculty position with benefits package
Opens: 10/24/12 Closes: Open Until Filled
Salary: Competitive and commensurate with qualifications

Open Until Filled. Apply by January 31, 2013 for best consideration.

The Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore invites applications for a full-time faculty position to begin August 2013. This person will be hired as either an Assistant/Associate Professor or a senior level Professor of Practice in game design, with contractual, tenure-track, or tenured status, depending on qualifications and experience. For consideration, applicants must have a doctorate in a technical field or an MFA. Also necessary are a strong commitment to teaching and a demonstrated ability to teach a range of courses on game and simulation-related technologies, including 3D animation, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

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Job: Open rank faculty position at Northeastern in computational social science/digital humanities

Open rank Faculty position at Northeastern in computational social science/digital humanities

Northeastern University invites applications and nominations at all ranks (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor) for a cluster of faculty positions in fields encompassed by the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. We define the range of relevant disciplines broadly to include study in the humanities or human behavior and developing computational methods applied to these domains.

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