1st IEEE International Workshop on Digital
Entertainment, Networked Virtual
Environments, and Creative Technology
Computer games become increasingly important; not only in entertainment but also in serious applications. Games are being used in education, training, decisions support, communication, marketing and even as art forms. Games enable people to experience environments and situations that could never be experienced in real life, because they are too dangerous, unreachable, or simply do not exist. Games can train abilities in new, effective and enjoyable ways. And games can create new social networks in which people from all over the world meet, talk, and play together.
New technology, like faster computers and graphics cards, new interface techniques, broadband connections and mobile devices, lead to new game play possibilities. But they also put a large burden on those of us who must create such games. Players get more demanding.
They expect not only realistic graphics and physics but also natural behaviour of the entities that inhibit the virtual game worlds. They expect gripping storylines that are smoothly incorporated in the game play. They expect to be challenged by game play that understands the player and automatically adapts to her abilities.
This is only achievable by hard work and new research. Research in new graphics and physics techniques, research in new forms of artificial intelligence, research in human-computer interaction, research in learning and automatic scenario design, and research in the artistic aspects of games. Fortunately digital entertainment and creative technology is nowadays considered as a serious academic domain and the number of researchers studying these topics is rapidly increasing. An excellent way to advance the state-of-the-art in digital entertainment and creative technology is to have people from all these different, multi-disciplinary areas of research meet and discuss their problems and achievements. The IEEE Digital Entertainment and Creative Technology Workshop is an excellent opportunity for this. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers, designers and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment. Papers presenting original research and applications are being sought in all areas of digital entertainment and creative technology. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Topics areas:
Real-time animation and computer graphics for video games
Distributed simulation and communication in multi-player games
Game console hardware and software
Psychophysics and user interfaces
Artificial intelligence in games
Interactive physics
Uses of GPU for non-graphical algorithms in games
Multi-processor techniques for games
Speech and vision processing as user input techniques
Development tools and techniques
Procedural art
Sound Design and music in games
Mathematical Game Theory applied to video games
Cinematography in games
Game design and game genres
Story structure (setting, plot, character, theme) in games
Games (Casual, Serious, Mobile, Networked, Alternative Reality, Ubiquitous, Pervasive, etc.)
Gamer culture and community; such as modding communities, LAN parties, creative gamer content and machinima
Independent game developers
Economics and business models in the game industry
Game production pipelines
Tools and Middleware
Interactive Fiction
Guidelines for Submission
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published.
Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the CCNC website. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20 - 30 minute workshop presentation. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting CCNC'08 on the EDAS paper submission website and then selecting the workshop submission link. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 5 Sept 2007
Author Notification: 14 Sept 2007
Camera-ready Copy: 10 Oct 2007
Author Registration Deadline: 10 Oct 2007
Workshop date: 12 Jan 2008
Co-Chairs
Kevin Wong K.Wong@murdoch.edu.au - Murdoch University, AU
Seah Hock Soon, ashsseah@ntu.edu.sg - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Abdennour El Rhalibi a.elrhalibi@ljmu.ac.uk- Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Technical Program Committee
Ayash Aladdin (De Montford University, UK)
Ali Arya (Carleton University, CA)
Robert Askwith (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Leandro Balladares (National Polytechnic Institute, MX)
Belgacem Ben Youssef (Simon Fraser University, CA)
Marc Cavazza (Teesside University, UK)
Adrian Cheok (National University of Singapore, SIN)
Jason Chown (SCEE, Liverpool Studio, UK)
Andrew Davison (Prince of Songkla University, TH)
Drew Davidson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Scott Goodwin (University of Windsor, CA)
Nicholas Graham (Queen's University, Kingston, CA)
Bruce R. Maxim (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Paul Fergus (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Susan Gold (Garage Games, USA)
Stephen Jacobs (RIT, USA)
Jennifer Jenson (York University, CA)
Bill Kapralos (University of Ontario, CA)
Michael J. Katchabaw (The University of Western Ontario, CA)
Manolya Kavakli (Macquarie University, AUS)
Elina M Koivisto (Nokia Research Centre, FIN)
Rynson Lau (Durham University, UK)
Simon Lucas (University of Essex, UK)
Krystina Madej, (Simon Fraser University, CA)
Darren Mundy (University of Hull, UK)
Soraia Musse (UNISINOS, CROMOS Laboratory, São Leopoldo, BR)
Louis Natanson (University of Abertay Dundee, UK)
Michael Nitsche (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Yoshihiro Okada (Kyushu University, Japan)
Takehisa Onisawa (University of Tsukuba, JP)
Ian J. Palmer (University of Bradford, UK)
Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang University, China)
Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA)
Edmond C. Prakash (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Marc Price (BBC R&D, UK)
Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven,The Netherlands)
Christian Reimann (C-Lab, GER)
Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, IT)
Tim Roden (Angelo State University, USA)
Sudi Sudirman (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Clark Verbrugge (McGill University, CA)
Brian Winn (Michigan State University, USA)
Gino Yu (University Polytechnic of Hong Kong, HK)
Yun Ruwei (Nanjing Normal University, China)
