[General] GAMES 2006 Congress

**** GAMES 2006 Congress **** International Digital Games Conference (iDig 2006) September 26-28, 2006 Portalegre, Portugal First Call for Papers In the scope of the GAMES 2006 Congress, the first International Digital Games Conference (iDiG Conference) aims to promote excellence in research, creativity, and innovation in games related areas. It constitutes a privileged forum to foment interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation between industry and academia. The goal of the conference is to get everyone related to digital games together to promote a comprehensive discussion of game issues and share visions of future gaming. Papers containing ongoing research or fresh results are most welcome. Both full papers (up to 12 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) can be submitted to the conference. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: . Game Concept Design . Storytelling and Game Narrative . Game Criticism . Game Programming & Engine . Game Rendering & Animations . Computer Vision . Audio & Music . Visual Arts . Game AI & Artificial Life . Game Physics . Networking Games . Online Games . Mobile Games . Affective Interaction in Games & Virtual Reality . Business & Project Management All proposals will follow a process of blind peer-review by the Scientific Committee on the basis of its originality, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation, and in its relevance to the field. Prospective authors are expected to present their paper at the conference. At the present moment, the conference organization is working on an agreement with a major scientific publisher for the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: Full Paper Submission Deadline: 9, June Short Paper Submission Deadline: 30, June Notification of Acceptance (full papers): 21, July Notification of Acceptance (short papers): 28, July Final Paper Submission (both short and full): 4, August CONFERENCE CHAIRS: José Dionísio, Instituto Superior Técnico António Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho STEERING COMMITTEE: John Sutherland, Abertay University Frans Mäyrä, University of Tempere / DiGRA Stephane Natkin, CNAM Paulo Gomes, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre / APROJE A. Augusto de Sousa, Universidade do Porto / APROJE Luis Teixeira, Universidade Católica Portuguesa / APROJE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Adérito Marcos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Alan Chalmers, Bristol University, UK Ann DeMarle, Champlain College, US António Coelho, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Bary W. Pollack, Sierra Nevada College, US Brian Winn, Michigan State University, US Catherine Pelachaud, Univesity of Paris 8, France Cécile Le Prado, ENJMIN, France David Adrian Cheock, Mixed reality laboratory / NTU, Singapure Didier Stricker, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Dmitri Williams, University of Illinois, US Frank Schoeffel, VRCOM, Germany Gabriel Zachmann, Bonn University, Germany Gastão Marques, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal Gerber Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Glyn Heatley, Algoma University College, Canada Gonzalo Frasca, TU University of Copenhague, Denmark Janet H. Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Jesper Juul, TU University of Copenhague, Denmark Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University, US João Madeiras Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC, Portugal John Sutherland, Abertay University, UK José Creissac Campos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal José Miguel Salles Dias, ISCTE / MICROSOFT, Portugal Katherine Isbister, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US Lee Sheldon, Anti-LinearLogic, US Leonard Paul, Vancouver Film School / Electronic Arts, Canada Licinio Roque, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Luís Filipe B. Teixeira, Universidade Lusofona, Portugal Luis Filipe Marcelino, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Luís Paulo Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Manuel Próspero dos Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcos Fernández Marín, Valencia University / ARTEC, Spain Mark H. Overmars, Utrecht University, Netherland Mauro Figueiredo, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Mehdi Qas, Univesity of Wolverhampton, UK Nelson Zagalo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Pascal Estraillier, Université de la Rochelle, France Peter Astheimer, Glasgow ITI University, UK Philippe Martins, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, Netherland Raquel Morais, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Portugal Rui Bastos, NVIDIA, US Stephan Gruenvogel, University of Berlin, Germany Stephane Natkin, ENJMIN / CNAM, France Stephen Jacobs, Rochester Institute of Technology, US Susan Gold, Sierra Nevada College, US Tony Manninen, University of Oulu, Finland Verónica Orvalho, Dynamic Simulation Lab, Argentine Veronica Zammito, Angry Machine, US Yansheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China WEB PAGE: http://games2006.aproje.org CONTACT: games2006(a)aproje.org A. 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