[Dutch-chapter] Call for Papers: IFIP Entertainment Computing and Joint Conference on Serious Games, November 11-15, Arequipa, Peru

[Spek, E.D. van der]

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18th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING and JOINT CONFERENCE ON SERIOUS GAMES, ICEC-JCSG 2019
 
"Putting the Fun in Functional: Entertainment for Serious Applications"
 
Date: November 11-15, 2019.
Venue: Catholic University of San Pablo, Arequipa, Peru.
 
http://ucsp.edu.pe/icec-jcsg-2019/
http://www.ifip-icec.org
http://www.jointconference-on-seriousgames.org/
 
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The 18th IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing, the oldest and prime scientific conference series in the area of Entertainment Computing, and the Joint Conference on Serious Games (previously Serious Games Development and Applications and GameDays  International Conference on Serious Games), will join together this year in the historical city of Arequipa, Peru. The two conferences bring together practitioners, researchers, artists, designers, and industry on the design, creation, development, use, application and evaluation of digital entertainment content and experience systems. The conference series is cross-disciplinary, and stretches over the domains of computer science, human-computer-interaction, content production, digital games, multimedia, media studies, art, and design. The conference series aims at presenting high quality scientific results spanning from theory to application, use-cases, experience, and demonstrations. 

We solicit papers, posters, art exhibits, interactive sessions, and demonstrations on topics that include but are not limited to the study of the design and interaction of: digital games, interactive entertainment, entertainment for purpose and persuasion, interactive art, serious games and more. Full papers are max. 12 pages excluding references, short papers are max. 6 pages excluding references, posters are max. 4 pages excluding references. All papers will be published in Springer IFIP-LNCS proceedings. Selected papers are eligible to be included in a special issue of the Elsevier journal Entertainment Computing (CiteScore 2.10). For the full call for papers, domains and submission types, please see the website: http://ucsp.edu.pe/icec-jcsg-2019/
 
 
NEW SUBMISSION DATES
 
Full papers, short papers and posters: June 23, 2019 (final deadline!).
Demonstration, Art Exhibit and Game showcases: June 15, 2019.
Doctoral Consortium papers: July 1, 2019.
Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2019.
Early-bird registration: August 10, 2019.
Camera-ready version: August 15, 2019.
 
WORKSHOPS
 
Workshop 1: 2nd Workshop on Entertainment Computing - a key for improving inclusion and reducing gender gap?
Workshop 2: Towards Inclusive Co-Creation of Inclusive Games.
Workshop 3: Designing Serious Mobile Location-based Augmented Reality Games.
Workshop 4: Workshop on Developments in Analog Games.

Last but not least, we are organizing an off-site event on "Teaching and learning entertainment computing - Between fun, experience and seriousness". This will be a half day workshop in Cusco, Peru (near Machu Picchu) on November 15, and will focus on in-depth discussions and brainstorming on how to teach and design curricula for entertainment computing.

Please see the website for additional information on the workshops.
 
On behalf of the ICEC-JCSG 2019 organization, we hope to see you in Arequipa, Peru, November 11-15 of this year.
 
ORGANIZATION
 
General Chairs: Alex Cuadros-Vargas (San Pablo Catholic Univ., PERU), Esteban Clua (Fluminense Federal Univ., BRAZIL), Jannicke Baalsrud-Hauge (KTH, SWEDEN; BIBA, GERMANY).
Program Chairs: Erik van der Spek (TU Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS), Stefan Goebel (TU Darmstadt, GERMANY), Ellen Yi-Luen Do (Univ. of Colorado Boulder, USA).
Workshop Chairs: Paolo Ciancarini (Univ. of Bologna, ITALY), Erick Gomez-Nieto (San Pablo Catholic Univ., PERU).
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Helmut Hlavacs (Univ. of Vienna, AUSTRIA).
Exhibition and Demo Chair: Javier Gomez Escribano (Autonomous Univ. Madrid, SPAIN), Marc-Antoine Le Guen (San Pablo Catholic Univ., PERU).
Publicity Chair: Letizia Jaccheri (NTNU, NORWAY), Minhua Eunice Ma (Staffordshire Univ. UK).