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International Digital Games Conference (iDig 2006) GAMES 2006 Congress September 26-28, 2006 Portalegre, Portugal Call for Papers ** Final Call for Papers - Deadline for full paper - 9th of June *** To submit a paper: http://www.gameinvest.net/opencfg/ For more details see in http://games2006.aproje.org/?op=1&id=10 or contact us to games2006(a)aproje.org GAMES 2006 Invited Speakers Confirmed Jason Della Rocca Executive Director International Game Developers Association (IGDA) USA Jason oversees the day-to-day management of the International Game Developers Association, working to build a unified global game development community and provide a common voice for developers. Jason and the IGDA deal with such diverse topics as anti-censorship advocacy, academic relations, business issues, workplace diversity, and developer quality of life. He also oversees the running of the Game Developers Choice Awards, an annual industry event which recognizes and rewards outstanding achievement within the game development community. Jason has been a member of the game development community for many years, and has spent time at Matrox Graphics, Quazal and Silicon Graphics. Leonard Paul Video Game Audio Instructor Vancouver Film School / Electronic Arts Canada Leonard teaches video game audio full-time at the Vancouver Film School as well as being an independent game audio contractor with his company Lotus Audio. He attained his honors degree in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University. He is a recognized lecturer on the topic of game audio and has given lectures at the Banff New Media Institute, the New Forms Festival, the Surrey Art Gallery and the 2003 GDC. His most recent worked on COACH K COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Genesis), NBA LIVE 2000 (N64), MAX PAYNE 2 (PC), and PS2 titles MODERNGROOVE: MINISTRY OF SOUND EDITION, NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT 2, SEGA SOCCER SLAM and MIDWAY HITZ 2003. Randi Rost Senior Manager, Driver Development Intel, Inc. Randi Rost has managed the Fort Collins, CO driver development group of 3Dlabs, Inc. (formerly Dynamic Pictures) since October '97. This group is currently driving the definintion of the OpenGL 2.0 standard and implementing OpenGL drivers for the 3Dlabs' family of graphics products. Prior to joining 3Dlabs, Randi was a graphics software architect for Hewlett-Packard's Graphics Software Lab and was responsible for leading Hewlett-Packard's graphics software efforts in the areas of imaging and volume rendering. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, he was chief architect for graphics software at Kubota Graphics Corporation. There he was responsible for leading KGC's efforts to design and implement a rich and flexible software environment for KGC's line of high-performance graphics and imaging systems. Randi has participated in emerging graphics standards efforts for over fifteen years. He was one of the chief architects for PEX and served as the PEX document editor for the first four years of the effort. He has participated in the design of OpenGL since its inception and, and was a member of the Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) Committee during the development of the Picture-Level Benchmark (PLB). He received NCGA's 1993 Achievement Award for the Advancement of Graphics Standards. Randi has previously participated in SIGGRAPH tutorials on PEX and evaluating graphics workstations, was the course organizer for tutorials on large model visualization at SIGGRAPH '93, and was the course organizer for tutorials on OpenGL at SIGGRAPH `92, `93, and `94 and at Eurographics `94. His most recent SIGGRAPH presentations were as the course organizer for "CPU Extensions for Graphics and Video" presented at SIGGRAPH '99 and as the course organizer for "Media-Rich Programming With OpenML" presented at SIGGRAPH 2001. Tom Hunter CEO Compass Rose Games Tom Hunter consults on pricing strategy for firms in consumer products, telecommunications, software, industrial automation, hardware and financial networking. A professional interest in price, value and pricing strategy coupled with a life long interest in games and game design inspired this article. He has spoken on the topic of price and value in computer games and advised independent game developers on pricing strategy. Tom is also CEO of Compass Rose Games, a game consulting and design firm focused on maximizing the value of games. Compass Rose creates uniquely effective strategies using price, value and intellectual property to make games more successful and profitable. 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. 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 Jose Dionisio, Instituto Superior Tecnico Antonio Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho STEERING COMMITTEE John Sutherland, Abertay University Frans Mayra, University of Tempere / DiGRA Stephane Natkin, CNAM Paulo Gomes, Instituto Politecnico de Portalegre / APROJE A. Augusto de Sousa, Universidade do Porto / APROJE Luis Teixeira, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa / APROJE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Aderito Marcos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Alan Chalmers, Bristol University, UK Ann DeMarle, Champlain College, US Antonio 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 Cecile 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 Gastao Marques, Instituto Politecnico 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 Joao Madeiras Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico / INESC, Portugal John Sutherland, Abertay University, UK Jose Creissac Campos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Jose Miguel Salles Dias, ISCTE / MICROSOFT, Portugal Katherine Isbister, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US Lee Sheldon, Anti-LinearLogic, US Leonard Paul, Vancouver Film School / Lotus Audio, Canada Licinio Roque, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Luis Filipe B. Teixeira, Universidade Lusofona, Portugal Luis Filipe Marcelino, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Luis Paulo Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Manuel Próspero dos Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Marcos Fernandez Marín, Valencia University / ARTEC, Spain Mark H. Overmars, Utrecht University, Netherland Mauro Figueiredo, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Mehdi Qas, Univesity of Wolverhampton, UK Michael J. Katchabaw, Middlesex College, Canada Nelson Zagalo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Pascal Estraillier, Universite de la Rochelle, France Peter Astheimer, Glasgow ITI University, UK Philippe Martins, Instituto Politecnico de Portalegre, Portugal Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, Netherland Raquel Morais, Universidade Catolica 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 Veronica Orvalho, Dynamic Simulation Lab, Argentine Veronica Zammito, DiGRA, Argentina Yansheng Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China ====================================================================== WEB PAGE: http://games2006.aproje.org/ CONTACT: games2006(a)aproje.org ======================================================================