GAME-ON'2017, 18th Annual Conference on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, September 6-8, 2017, Carlow, Ireland, Programme

Dear Colleague,

Please find hereafter the preliminary programme
for the 18th annual Conference on Simulation and AI
in Computer Games- GAME-ON'2017, which will be held
at the Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland
from September 6-8, 2017.

Conference link with extra info is on:
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/391

The online registration form is linked on:
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/3660

The hotel page has been updated
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/3584
as well as the social programme page
https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/3585

Beware the general timing below is advisory
and can undergo minor changes in the final programme.

Regards
Philippe

Preliminary Programme

Session Timing

September 6

O8.30-15.00 Registration
O9.00-09.15 Welcome
O9.15-10.00 Keynote
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Session
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Session
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-17.00 Session
19.00 Social Programme - live music session at a well-known Irish music local bar.

September 7

O9.00-15.00 Registration
O9.00-10.00 Keynote
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Session
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Session
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-18.00 Tutorial
18.00-20.00 Games Galore
20.30-23.00 Conference Dinner

September 8

O9.00-09.30 Registration
O9.00-10.00 Session
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Session
12.30-12.45 Closing Session

Keynotes

GAME_KEY_01
What it Means from Where I Am

Brenda Romero

GAME_KEY_02
A Lifetime in Games: The Past, Present and Future of the Industry

John Romero

Tutorial

GAME_TUT_01
Role Play Game Design Workshop

Brenda Romero

Sessions

GAMING IN THE CULTURAL SPHERE

GAME_METH_08
Playing Games within Transmedia Narratives – The Big Bang Theory

Vanda de Sousa, CICS.Nova, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

GAME DESIGN METHODOLOGY

GAME_DES_01
Building Successful Games: An Analysis of League of Legends

Gabriel B. S. M. Moreira, Matheus M. Ramalho, Alex F. V. Machado and Victor R. Costa, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast of Minas Gerais, Lindo Vale, Rio Pomba – MG, Brazil

GAME_ONL_01
Communication verses Computation: A Survey of Cloud Gaming Approaches

Robert J. Grigg, School of International Game Architecture & Design (IGAD), NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, Breda, The Netherlands

GAME_SER_DES_04
Connecting Company and Consumer Expectations in Game Design: A Food Sector Case

Tuomas Ranti, Brahea Centre, University of Turku, Finland

GAME_METH_DES_02
Co-Designing a Game Based Learning Platform for Active Ageing: The Case of “Jump”

Liliana Vale Costa and Ana Isabel Veloso, Digimedia, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

GAME DESIGN AND GAMIFICATION

GAME_METH_DES_06
To Gamify or not to Gamify? Analyzing the Effect of Game Elements to foster Progression and Social Connectedness

Md Sanaul Haque, Daire O’Broin and Joseph Kehoe, Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland

GAME_METH_DES_07
The formation of studying habits in third level students through the use of Gamification

Gavin Clarke, Joseph Kehoe and Daire O’Broin, Institute of Technology Carlow, Moanacurragh, Co. Carlow, Ireland

GAME AI

GAME_TOOLS_AI_01
HAIFU (Hybrid Artificial Intelligence for UNITY)

Juan Luis Berenguel Forte and Jose Antonio Piedra Fernandez, Applied Computing Group, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain

GAME_METH_AI_03
An Evaluation of Fast Multi-Layer Perceptron Training Techniques for Games

David G. Robertson, Department of Arts, Media and Computer Games, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

GAME_AI_05
Procedural Play Generation According to Play Arcs Using Monte-Carlo Tree Search

Suguru Ito, Makoto Ishihara, Tomohiro Harada and Ruck Thawonmas, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan and Marco Tamassia, and Fabio Zambetta, School of Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

GAME VR

GAME_VR_01
Interactive Educational Contents Development Framework and its Extension for Web Based VR/AR Applications

Yoshihiro Okada, Kosuke Kaneko and Ari Tanizawa, Innovation Center for Educational Resources, Kyushu University Library, and CyberSecurity Center, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

GAME_VR_03
Beyond Pokemon Go Advances in Augmented Reality for Games

Ken Newman, Tina Gates and Bilal Ahmed, Division of CISAC, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates

GAME_VR_04
Local Multiplayer Immersion affected by 3D Stereoscopy

Daniel P. O. Wiedemann, Peter Passmore and Magnus Moar, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London, United Kingdom

GAME_VR_06
An experiment Design: Investigating VR Locomotion & Virtual Object Interaction Mechanics

Daniel P. O. Wiedemann, Peter Passmore and Magnus Moar, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London, United Kingdom

GAME CHARACTERS

GAME_OP_CHAR_01
Believability Assessment for Fighting Game AI

Mola Bogdan Georgyy, Maxim Mozgovoy, Toru Ito, and Tatsuhiro Rikimaru, Active Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, The University of Aizu, Aizu-wakamatsu City, Japan

GAME_AFF_CHAR_02
Affect and Believability in Game Characters – A review of the Use of Affective Computing in Games

Salma Hamdy and David King, Division of Computing and Mathematics, AMG, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

SERIOUS GAMING

GAME_SER_01
Global Strategy Game: A Serious Game for Teaching International Business

Martin Prause and Juergen Weigand, Institute for Industrial Organization, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany

GAME_SER_02
Leveraging Personalised Feedback as a Motivation Tool in Active Games

Joseph O’Connell and Colm O’Riordan, College of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

GAME_SER_METH_09
Avatars, Qualia and Schizophrenia

Helena Barbas, CICS.Nova, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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