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</style></head><body style='font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '><div align="center"><font size="4" face="'Times New Roman', serif"><b>VS Games 2018 - </b></font><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><br><b><font size="4"><b>10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications </b></font></b><br><br><b><font size="3">Call for Papers </font></b><br><br><b><font size="3">Würzburg, Germany, September 5th-7th, 2018 </font></b><br><font size="3"><a target="_blank" href="http://vsgames.org/2018/">http://vsgames.org/2018/</a></font><br><font size="3"> *************************************************************************</font><br></font></div><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><br></font><div align="left"><font size="3" face="'Times New Roman', serif">Dear Colleagues,<br><br></font><font size="3" face="'Times New Roman', serif">We
are happy to announce the 10th international conference on virtual
worlds and games for serious applications – the VS-Games 2018 in
Würzburg, Germany.<br><br></font><font size="3" face="'Times New Roman', serif">Games and virtual worlds
for serious applications have continued with their triumphant advance
in 2018. Never before have they experienced more attention by society,
politicians and researchers. Their success can be seen in a variety of
fields, including education, medicine or engineering. This makes related
research to their design, application and evaluation even more
important. The conference therefore aims to provide a forum for
researchers from different disciplines to share new case studies of
practice, to present virtual world infrastructure developments, as well
as new frameworks, methodologies and theories relevant to our community.</font><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><br><br><font size="3">Topics of interest are:</font><br><font size="3">• AI applications for serious games</font><br><font size="3">• Serious games methodologies</font><br><font size="3">• User-modelling in serious games</font><br><font size="3">• Pervasive gaming</font><br><font size="3">• Interactivity issues</font><br><font size="3">• Game design</font><br><font size="3">• Alternate reality games</font><br><font size="3">• Virtual environments</font><br><font size="3">• Augmented reality</font><br><font size="3">• Visualisation techniques</font><br><font size="3">• Human-computer interaction</font><br><font size="3">• Mobile games</font><br><font size="3">• Education and learning</font><br><font size="3">• Multimedia gaming</font><br><font size="3">• Case studies in serious games and virtual worlds<br><br></font></font></div><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><br></font><div align="center"><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">-----------------------------------------------------------------------<font><b>I</b></font><b>mportant Dates</b> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- </font></font><br><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">Paper submission deadline: 30th of April 2018 </font></font><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">Notice of Acceptance: 4st of June 2018 </font></font><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">Camera-ready submission: 22th of June, 2018 </font></font><br><br><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">--------------------------------------------------------------- <b>Requirements for Submission</b> --------------------------------------------------------<font>-------------</font></font></font><br><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">Accepted
papers must be presented orally in English at VS-Games 2018. This event
uses a triple-blind reviewing approach, so please be sure to remove all
personal data (such as authors, affiliations, etc.)</font></font><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">from
your submission. References to your own work should be made in the
third person to maintain anonymity. Reviewers are asked to keep
confidential all materials sent to them for evaluation. Non-anonymous
submissions will be rejected without review. One registered participant
may present up to two papers.</font></font><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">The VS-Games has
three tracks – full paper, short paper and poster, with corresponding
lengths of 8, 4, and 2 pages. We ask authors to ensure that their paper
fits within the specified length for their submission track, including
references. Authors are encouraged to upload supplementary material
(e.g. multimedia), if such material facilitates the understanding of the
work.</font></font><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">Electronic submission of all papers is
mandatory and will be conducted using the EasyChair system by April
30th. Papers must be written in English, must be anonymized, and must be
formatted according to IEEE standards (A4 template) (regardless of
category).</font></font><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">All authors will be notified of
paper acceptance by 4st of June 2018. There is no rebuttal process.
Successful submissions will be asked to review carefully their paper and
make any minor modifications requested by reviewers, before uploading
the camera ready version by 22th of June 2018. All accepted papers will
be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore.</font></font><br><br><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><font size="3">For any questions regarding submission please email the conference chairs: generalchair@2018.vsgames.org.</font></font><br></div><font face="'Times New Roman', serif"><br><font size="3"><br>With kind regards,</font><br><br><font size="3">Sebastian von Mammen,</font><br><br><font size="3">General Chair of the VS-Games 2018</font></font><br/><div style='clear: both;'><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"><br></font></div>Kristina Bucher, M.A.</font><div> </div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Lehrstuhl für Schulpädagogik</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Universität Würzburg | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Institut für Pädagogik</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Oswald-Külpe-Weg 82 | 97074 Würzburg</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Raum 03.013 | Tel. +49 931 / 31 84688 (Sekr.)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Raum 03.015 | Tel. +49 931 / 31 88788 (Büro)</font></div></div><br/></body></html>