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<a name="top"></a> <table width="99%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="4" align="center" bgcolor="#000080"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" valign="CENTER" bgcolor="white"> <center> <font size="+2"><img src="../KB/Resources/ClipArt/POW.GIF" alt="" height="57" width="46" align="left" border="0"></font><font size="+2" color="#006600" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Conferences </font><font size="+2" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b><br> </b></font><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>Conferences to go to<a href="#outlines"><br> </a></b>(places generally of interest to academics and researchers)</font></center> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="99%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="#6572ae"> <tr> <td align="center"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><b>This pathfinder site is intended as a place to keep track of references and resources (people, places, and things) related to Serious Games (specifically games and learning)</b></font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="#000080"> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#000080"><font size="+1" color="#D9E5F4" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Conferences</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="red" width="200"> <div align="center"> <font size="+2" color="white" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">See also:</font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="#D9E5F4"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">CGSA site: <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/%7ejparker/CGSA/">http://www.ucalgary.ca/%7ejparker/CGSA/</a><br>
DiGRA News [ <a href="http://www.digra.org/news/">http://www.digra.org/news/ </a>]<br>
IGDA Events [ <a href="http://www.igda.org/events/">http://www.igda.org/events/</a> ]<br>
Ludology.Org: <a href="http://ludology.org/">http://ludology.org/</a></font></td> </tr> <tr height="4"> <td colspan="2" height="4"></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"></td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Austin Game Conference [ <a href="http://www.gameconference.com/">http://www.gameconference.com/ </a>]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"><a href="http://www.cgt.auc.ca/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:CGT.jpeg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></td> <td bgcolor="white"><span><a href="http://www.cgt.auc.ca/"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Computer Game Technology Conference</font></a><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"> [2004]</font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre/Events/main.html"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:dig-gen-1.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre/Events/main.html"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:dig-gen-conf-2.jpeg" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and New Media 26-29 July 2004 London, England<br>
A major international conference organised by <a href="http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre/main.html">The Centre for the Study of Children</a>, Youth and Media Institute of Education, University of London</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#7cbac5" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/overview.php"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:digra-2.jpeg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">International DiGRA Conference Digital gaming's ability to generate a culture which immerses and absorbs its participants has made it an object of new millennial 'moral panic', widely threatening to those at its borders. And in many ways, it is. The phenomenal success of popular culture to initiate a mass audience in patterns and practices of its own consumption has supported the evolution of an enormously powerful mass entertainment industry extending deeply into every aspect of our lives. <a href="http://www.gamesconference.org/">http://www.gamesconference.org/</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#0033cc" width="200"> <div align="center"> <font face="Verdana"><b><a href="http://www.e3expo.com/e3expo/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:E3-logo.jpeg" alt="" width="75" border="0"></a></b></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.e3expo.com/">E3, The Electronic Entertainment Expo</a>, Los Angeles, CA May</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.educationarcade.org/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:ed-arcade-logo.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">MIT's Education Arcade Conference: (2004, 2005) at the Electronic Entertainment Expo <a href="http://www.educationarcade.org/">http://www.educationarcade.org/</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#66ccff" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.futureplay.org/index.php"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:futureplayb.jpg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.futureplay.org/index.php">The Future Play</a> conference focuses on three main themes. The first theme, future game development, addresses academic research and emerging industry trends in the area of game technology and game design. The second theme, future game impacts and applications, includes academic research and emerging industry trends focused on designing games for learning, for gender, for serious purposes, and to impact society. Finally, the third theme, future game talent, is designed to provide a number of industry and academic perspectives on the knowledge, skills, and attitude it takes to excel in the games industry.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#009900" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/conference/seriousgames.htm"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:GDC2004-hexnav-t_r1_c11alex2.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Games Developers Conference : Serious Games Summit <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/conference/">http://www.gdconf.com/conference/</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.glsconference.org/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:gls.gif" alt="" width="184" height="89" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Games and Learning and Society [<a href="http://www.glsconference.org/2006/">http://www.glsconference.org/2006/</a>]<br> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://biomath.ugent.be/%7eeurosis/conf/gameon/gameon2005/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:GAMEON.jpg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">A primary aim of the European GAME-ON Conference on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people in order to exchange ideas on programming and programming techniques, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos to the gaming industry. <a href="http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/news/ibr/game-on-2006/index.html">http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/news/ibr/game-on-2006/index.html</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"> <div align="center"> <img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:ictlogo1.jpg" alt="" width="200" border="0"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:ictlogo2.jpg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Interactive Games and Learning Conference [ <a href="http://www.ictlic.eq.edu.au/IGL2006/index.html">http://www.ictlic.eq.edu.au/IGL2006/index.html </a>]<br>
Games in Learning Project (Queensland Department of Education and the Arts) <a href="http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=24029">http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=24029</a> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#cc6600" width="200"> <div align="center"> <img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:mtl_game_summit_05.gif" alt="" width="150" border="0"></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Montreal Game Summit [<a href="http://www.montrealgamesummit.com/">http://www.montrealgamesummit.com/</a>]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"><a href="http://www.seriousgamessummit.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:sgs_logo.gif" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">The Serious Games Summit is a unique, two-day event that provides:<br>
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<p><a href="http://www.seriousgamessummit.com/"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">http://www.seriousgamessummit.com/</font></a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" width="200"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.womeningames.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:wig-logo-tilt.jpg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Women in Games [ <a href="http://www.womeningames.com/">http://www.womeningames.com/</a> ]</font></td> </tr> </table>
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<table width="99%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="#000080"> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#000080"><font size="+1" color="#D9E5F4" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Journals & Periodicals</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.firstmonday.dk/"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:fm.gif" alt="" width="200" border="0"></font></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.firstmonday.dk/">First Monday </a>is one of the first peer reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 526 papers in 96 issues; these papers were written by 626 different authors. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, INSPEC, LISA, PAIS and other services. In the year 2003, users from 816,912 distinct hosts around the world downloaded 5,385,649 contributions published in First Monday. In the month of May, 2004, users from 86,912 distinct hosts around the world downloaded 449,600 contributions. [1996]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#009900"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:logo_gamasutra.gif" alt="" width="100" border="0"></font></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/" target="_parent">Gamasutra - The Art and Science of Making Games - On-Line Games Developer's Magazine</a> [http://www.gamasutra.com/] [1997]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#006699"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.gamesandculture.com/news/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:games-culture.jpg" alt="" width="120" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is a new, quarterly international journal (first issue due January 2006) that aims to publish innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within the context of interactive media. The journal will serve as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking and germinal work in the field of game studies. Games and Culture’s scope will include the socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions of gaming from a wide variety of perspectives, including textual analysis; political economy; cultural studies; ethnography; critical race studies; gender studies; media studies; public policy; international relations; and communication studies. Other possible arenas include:<br> </font> <p><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">* Issues of gaming culture related to race, class, gender and sexuality<br> * Issues of game development<br> * Textual and cultural analysis of games as artifacts<br> * Issues of political economy and public policy in both US and international contexts [ <a href="http://www.gamesandculture.com/news/">http://www.gamesandculture.com/news/ </a>] [2005]</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#6666ff"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.thegamesjournal.com/"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:TGJ.gif" alt="" width="200" border="0"></font></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">The Games Journal: A Boardgaming Monthly [<a href="http://www.thegamesjournal.com/">http://www.thegamesjournal.com/</a>] The Games Journal was a monthly magazine about boardgames which ran from July, 2000 until September, 2005. A declining number of submissions forced us to shut our doors (metaphorically speaking) and abandon the regular, monthly issues. However, we have kept the site up and running since we feel that there is great value in the articles, reviews, puzzles, letters and original rules that we published during our run. Please visit our archives to view everything we ever published. [2000-2005]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white"> <div align="center"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://www.gamestudies.org/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:game-studies-1.gif" alt="" height="40" width="126" border="0"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:game-studies.gif" alt="" height="40" width="187" border="0"></a></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Game Studies is a cross disciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games. [<a href="http://www.gamestudies.org/">http://www.gamestudies.org/</a>] [2000]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white"> <div align="center"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:3dtext_3189.gif" alt="" height="46" width="130" border="0"></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation a web-based publication of the University of Wolverhampton UK and The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS Europe BVBA) and European Simulation Society (EUROSIS) [<a href="http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/%7ecm1822/ijigs11.htm">http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/ijigs11.htm </a>] [2002]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000066"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.jogd.com/"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:JOGD.jpg" alt="" width="200" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">The Journal of Game Development (JOGD) provides the vehicle for disseminating research and findings indigenous to the game development industry. It is an outlet for peer-reviewed research that will help validate the work and garner acceptance for the study of game development by the academic community. [ <a href="http://www.jogd.com/">http://www.jogd.com/</a> ] [2006]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="white"> <div align="center"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:swooshtopcopy.gif" alt="" width="200" border="0"><b>The Journal of Virtual Environments</b></font></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">The Journal of Virtual Environments is a refereed electronic journal which publishes research that relates to Virtual Environments or makes use of Virtual Environments.Of particular interest are anthropological, psychological, and sociological approaches, as are the practical and technical aspects of creating, maintaining and administrating VEs. Both empirical and theoretical works are welcome. The Journal also publishes "Comments" (shorter pieces which propose new directions for research on Virtual Environments) and book reviews. <a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/">http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/</a> [1996]</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#0066cc"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.unice.fr/sg/"><font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><img src="/becker/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=&h=&cache=cache&media=resources:proprietary:sim-n-gaming.jpeg" alt="" width="120" border="0"></font></a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="white"> <font size="-1" face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research is the world's foremost scientific review devoted to academic and applied issues in the increasingly popular methodology of simulation/gaming as used in education, training, consultation and research round the world. Simulation/gaming is to be taken in its broadest meaning, to encompass such areas as simulation, computerized simulation, gaming, simulation/gaming, policy exercises, planning exercises, debriefing, analytic discussion, post-experience analysis, modeling, virtual reality, game theory, role-play, role-playing, play, active learning, experiential learning, learning from experience, toys, playthings, structured exercises, debriefing. This quarterly journal examines the methodologies and explores their application to real-world problems and situations. [<a href="http://www.unice.fr/sg/">http://www.unice.fr/sg/</a>] [<a href="http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105774">http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105774</a>] [1969]</font> </td> </tr> </table>
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