Month: May 2019

  • CfP: Audio Mostly 2019

    The Audio Mostly (www.audiomostly.com) conference series is interested in sound Interaction Design & Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in general. Audio Mostly will take place from the 18th to 20th of September 2019 at the University of Nottingham in the city of Nottingham in the UK. The conference provides a space to reflect on the role of…

  • Trust in Play Mentoring Program

    “Trust in Play / the European School of Urban Game Design” invites applications until May 31. Information and application forms at http://trustinplay.eu Trust in Play supports emerging practitioners in forming a career out of making urban games and playful urban experiences. Benefits include enhancing professional capacities (artistic and business skills) and acquiring the tools to…

  • CfP: Special Issue – Intergenerational Gaming, Accessibility, Motivation, and Engagement (iGAME)

    Overview: The CGJ is pleased to announce a CFP for the forthcoming special issue: iGAME (intergenerational: Gaming, Accessibility, Motivation, and Engagement). The field of Games Studies has received a vast amount of interest and investigation over the last 50 years, ranging from game addiction, gender, engagement/interaction, to health rehabilitation and cohorts (i.e. baby boomers). However, intergenerational gaming has received less…

  • CfP: 7th Games and Literary Theory Conference, Kolkata

    Announcing the 7th Games and Literary Theory Conference (GamesLit 2019) to be held in Kolkata, India  on November 18th to 20th. The venue is Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly Hindoo College and Presidency College), which has just celebrated its bicentenary. It is an honour to be able to host the first large games conference in this…

  • CfP: Virtual Workshop ‘ASIA.LIVE: Locating Livestreaming in Asia’

    Hosts: Leiden University, the Leiden Asia Centre, and Asiascape: Digital Asia Organisers: Florian Schneider, Dino Ge Zhang, Gabriele de Seta Date: 13 September 2019 Abstract Deadline: 20 June 2019 The practice of broadcasting live video through the internet has recently seen a resurgence, as livestreaming platforms recuperated the format pioneered by cam sites from around…

  • Invitation to NSF Game-based Assessment Conference

    A US National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop entitled, “Game-based Assessment: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Integrating Organizations, Education, and Assessment.”  The event will be held on August 22 and 23, 2019, in Minneapolis, MN, USA.  Breakfast, plated lunches, and two snack breaks will be provided.  The general goal of this conference is to share and discuss research on…

  • CfP: Games Studies Summit: Paratextualizing Games

    The fact that new communication media have always produced new possibilities for cultural evaluation, analysis, and participation is particularly true of digital games. Gaming no longer only takes place as a “closed interactive experience” in front of TV screens or PC monitors at home (or at work), but also as broadcast on video-sharing and streaming…

  • CfP: GHItaly 2019 Workshop on Games-Human Interaction

    GHItaly19 aims at bringing together scholars and industry practitioners to establish a common ground on the topic. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on games-human interaction. The perspective that the workshop aims at investigating is the design of…

  • CfP: Games and Learning Alliance conference in Athens, Greece

    == GALA conf Call for Papers === Seeking original contributions that advance the state of the art in the technologies and knowledge available to support development and deployment of serious games (SG). Experimental studies are strongly encouraged. Please refer also to the Aims and scope section and also check the workshop pages, that will have…

  • CfP: Gamification 53rd HICSS 2020 conference

    Link to full CFP: https://www.tut.fi/Gamification/2019/02/26/hicss2020_cfp/ === GAMIFICATION track Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” – track 53rd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS January 7-10, 2020 | Grand Wailea, Maui === IMPORTANT DATES June 15: Submissions deadline August 17: Notification sent to authors September 4: Revision deadline September 10:…

  • Job: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Computer Games

    The Department of Computing at Macquarie University, in Sydney Australia, is expanding its teaching and research programs in Game Design and Development and looking to hire new staff. Positions range from level B (Lecturer, equivalent to Assistant Professor in US terms) to level D (Associate Professor, equivalent to Professor in US terms). As a games…

  • Cotutelle & Joint PhD opportunities

    The Serious Games Research Network at Macquarie University (in Sydney, Australia) is looking to attract international PhD students interested in taking part in Macquarie’s Cotutelle and Joint Phd programs. A Cotutelle or Joint PhD is a PhD program where a candidate is jointly enrolled at two universities, and spends time at each university. A candidate…