The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09) aims to be a platform for innovative research in game design and technologies and to make this multi-disciplinary subject area more accessible to researchers and practitioners from different disciplines in academia and industry. The conference will take place in central London in UK between 25th-28th August 2009. Areas of interest of ICE-CIG 2009 include, but not limited to:

Games Technologies Innovations

1. Display technologies and interfaces for games
   • Stereoscopic/3D Displays
     
   • Novel Interaction techniques such as touch, gesture, & gaze
     
   • Health & safety
     
   • Human factors of display
     
   • Standards
2. Audio technologies for games
   • Game audio control interfaces
   • Interactive sound synthesis and processing
   • Sound production
   • Interactive / generative music
   • Spatial audio
   • Voice processing
     
3. Mixed reality technologies
   • Original uses of location in mixed-reality gaming environments
   • Experimental/creative uses of games for hybrid environments
   • Exploration of games tools, which enhance mixed reality gaming
   • Evaluation of structuring and conceptual models and techniques for supporting mixed-reality games innovations 
     
4. Serious games
   • Uncommon/novel usage domains
   • Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds / Virtual Environments
   • Real-time Learning and Educational Feedback
   • Innovative hardware interfaces (e.g. iPhone)
     
5. Artificial intelligence technologies for games
   • Decision-Making, Learning and Adaptation: Machine learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks, Bayesian techniques, genetic algorithms, state machines, fuzzy logic, rule-based AI, case-based systems, agent-based models, adaptive Markov models, natural language processing 
   • Game AI Design Components: Pathfinding, believable characters, terrain analysis, intelligent camera control, steering behaviours, movement control, sensory models, real-time performance, ecosystem design, virtual environments 
   • Strategic AI and Collective Behaviour: Crowd simulation, group behaviour, tactical pathfinding, flocking, agent cooperation, coordinated movement, formations, squad tactics 
   • AI in Content Creation: Automatic content generation, assisted content sharing, game design, data collection 
   • Player Profiling for Improved AI: Automated player type detection, preference-based models, imitation techniques 
     
6. Science of games
   
7. Games software engineering
   • Games Software Process
   • Games System Model
   • Formal Aspects of Games Software
   • Games Software Design
   • Games Development
   • Games Software Evolution
   • Games Software Verification and Validation
   • Games Software Management
   • Network and Security Issues of Games Software

Creativity in Games

1. Innovations in commercial models in games
   
2. Machinima
   • Analysis of machinima
   • Original machinima creation in gaming environments
   • Experimental creative uses of games for machinima
   • Exploration of games tools which enhance machinimating capabilities
   • Evaluation of how machinima techniques are supporting games innovations
     
3. Game Sound and Music
   • History of music/sound in digital games
   • Analysis of game sound/music
   • Original musical creation in gaming environments
   • Experimental creative uses of games in music and sound
4. Games innovations in education
   • Teaching game design and development in computer science curriculum and other disciplines;
   • Exploiting game design and development in teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM);
   • Experimental programs on using games to help facilitate learning;
   • Rapid prototyping skills and group dynamics applied in game education;
   • Teaching agile development as a metaphore;
   • Utilizing collaborative development tools in the classroom;
   • using game education as a way to interface with a digital generation
   • open source tools utilized in game curriculum to learn development concepts
5. Social impact of games technologies

Conference Coordinator: Charlotte Kobert, ckobert@zbzoom.net

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