Welcome message
Georgios Yannakakis
First of all, please accept my apologies for being late in creating
this group.
In the discussion he had at the end of the SAB workshop we all agreed
on continuing this first (successful) attempt. In order to achieve this
there are several issues to be discussed through this group. I list the
most important below:
1) When: Organize this annually or biannually? Most people agreed on
the first option and I guess we should stick on that.
2) Where: Here are our options for next year:
a) CHI series - conference on human factors in computing systems
(workshop proposal for CHI'07)
http://www.chi2006.org/
b) IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games series
(workshop proposal for CIG'08)
http://csapps.essex.ac.uk/cig/2007/
c) Int. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (Not sure whether they
accept workshop proposals; I can ask though)
http://www.hcii2007.org/
d) AI for Interactive Digital Entertainment (June, 2007): Not sure
whether they accept workshop proposals but I guess we have a deadline
until Dec. 2006)
http://www.aiide.org/
e) Stand-alone event?
f) Any other ideas are more than welcome...
Given the broad scope of the workshop (i.e. methodologies that augment
player satisfaction in games) I would list CHI'07 first. Please
provide your comments and suggestions for discussion here.
3) Invited speakers: I already talked to Nicole Lazzaro from XEO Design
and she was positive (subject to date). Do you have anybody else in
mind from the academia or the game industry?
4) Organization: Any additional volunteers for helping with the
organization of this?
5) Funding: Some people also mentioned industry's financial support
for students. Please share your ideas with us.
6) Publication means: As I mentioned at the end of the SAB workshop,
Springer had accepted to publish the workshop's proceedings subject
to quality and number of contributions (i.e. approximately 15 high
quality submissions). Let us all try to achieve this goal next year.
I plan to invite even more people dealing with player satisfaction in
games on any aspect. Please advertise this group to anyone that might
be interested. People can freely sign-in without a google account.
Georgios Yannakakis
Julian Togelius
Just a quick note: the link to "view this group" leads to a page which
is, well, all greek to me... But if you manually change
groups.google.gr to groups.google.com in the url, the page becomes
much more understandable for those of us that are not fortunate
enought to speak the language of Plato.
(But maybe this was obvious to everyone except me...)
Julian
Ben Cowley
It was only obvious when I'd had my second coffee...all those non
coffee drinkers should be most grateful :D
> Hi All,
> Julian
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Best regards,
Ben mailto:Cowl...@ulster.ac.uk