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Date de remise des articles : 19/12/2008
Date du colloque : 26/04/2009
Pays / Ville d'accueil : Dinsey Wonder Cruise Ship, Port Canaveral, FL, USA
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Description

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL GAMES (FDG 09)

April 26th to 30th, 2009

On-board the Disney Wonder cruise ship, departing from Port Canaveral, FL, USA.

http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org

Corporate Sponsors: Microsoft Research, Electronic Arts

FDG ’09, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital
Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research
and education involving computer and console games, game technologies,
game play and game design. Previously known as Academic Days on Game
Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE 08), this year's
conference expands its scope to encompass all aspects of Computer
Science focused game research, along with game-oriented education
research, and game studies and game design research. The goal of the
conference is the advancement of the science of digital games,
including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications,
educational uses, and modes of play.

The conference will be held aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship,
departing from and returning to Port Canaveral, FL with port calls in
the Bahamas and at Disney's private island, Castaway Cay. FDG 2009
will include presentation of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by
high-profile industry and academic leaders, hands-on tutorials and
topical panels on a range of subjects related to games research and
education. We invite researchers and educators to share insights and
cutting-edge results relating to game technologies and their use.

SUBMISSIONS

FDG 2009 will accept both full paper and poster submissions (the
details of each are described below). To encourage submissions across
a range of topics, this year's program includes six distinct theme
areas. Authors may choose to submit their papers to the general
conference or to a specific theme area of particular relevance. The
conference themes are a) artificial intelligence, b) computer science
and games education, c) databases, d) game studies/game design, e)
graphics and interfaces and f) networking and security. Papers that
fall outside these topic areas are strongly encouraged and should be
submitted to the general track. All submissions will be rigorously
peer reviewed for their technical merit, significance, clarity and
relevance to the advancement of the sciences of games. All full papers
must describe a completed unit of work and show rigorous and
compelling evaluation of the ideas they present. Poster submissions
should describe novel work in progress that is not at the same level
of research maturity as a full submission.

PAPERS AND POSTERS

All accepted paper and poster submissions will be published in the
conference proceedings, which will be available on a USB drive. For a
paper or poster to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must
register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy
submission. One author of each accepted submission will be provided
with a special registration package that allows them to register at
the early registration rate. Papers from previous years' conferences
have been included in the ACM Digital Library and we anticipate that
all paper, poster, and doctoral consortium publications from this
year's conference will appear there as well. Conference organizers are
working with the ACM to obtain in-cooperation sponsorship status, and
anticipate approval in September 2008.

Electronic paper and poster submission is required. Authors should
submit their papers at the conference submission site,
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfdg2009

 

Both paper and poster authors must submit their papers by 11PM
Pacific time on December 19, 2008. Papers must not exceed eight pages
and poster submissions must not exceed two pages. All submissions
must comply with the official ACM proceedings format using one of the
templates provided at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

 

FDG 2009 will not accept any paper that, at the time of
submission, is under review for or has already been published or
accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. This
restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other
venues with a limited audience.

THEME AREA TOPICS

Authors whose papers align with a particular theme area should choose
to submit their paper under that theme. Theme areas for FDG 2009 are
defined broadly and include Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science
and Games Education, Databases, Game Studies | Game Design, Graphics
and Interfaces and Networks and Security. For more details about the
specific tracks, please see the conference website
(http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org ).

IMPORTANT DATES

December 19, 2008 Full paper and poster submission deadline

December 29, 2008 Doctoral Consortium proposal submission deadline

January 9, 2009 Early registration deadline

January 30, 2009 Paper, poster, and Doctoral Consortium notifications
of acceptance/rejection

February 20, 2009 Camera-ready copy due. Presenting author conference
registration deadline

April 26-30, 2009 2009 Int’l Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

April 30, 2009 Doctoral Consortium

FDG DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The FDG Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a limited
group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research
interests and career objectives with a panel of established games
researchers and industry professionals. The consortium has the
following objectives:

• to provide a setting for mutual feedback on
  participants' current research and guidance on future research
  directions;
• develop a supportive community of scholars and a
  spirit of collaborative research;
• support a new generation of
  researchers with information and advice on academic, research,
  industrial, and nontraditional career paths;
• contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in conference events.

The Doctoral Consortium will be held on April 30th, 2009, the last day
of the FDG conference, and will be hosted at the Orlando offices of
Electronic Arts’ Tiburon Studios. Attendance will be limited to a) FDG
Program and Organizing Committees (who will serve as reviewers and
discussants for student presentations), b) graduate students whose
proposals are accepted for presentation and c) a limited number of
additional graduate students as space is available. Students whose
submissions to the Doctoral Consortium are accepted for presentation
will receive complimentary conference registration and a fixed
allowance for travel/housing.

The deadline for application to the Doctoral Consortium is December
29, 2009. For more details, see the Doctoral Consortium Call for
Papers available on the FDG web site or contact Ian Horswill, Doctoral
Consortium Chair, at ian@cs.northwestern.edu.

FDG 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference Chair
Jim Whitehead, Univ. California, Santa Cruz

Program Chair
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State Univ.

Finances Chair
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Simon Fraser Univ.

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Kent Foster, Microsoft Corporation
G. Michael Youngblood, Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte

Doctoral Consortium Chair
Ian Horswill, Northwestern Univ.

Webmaster
Bruce Gooch, Univ. of Victoria

FDG 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program At-Large Members

Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pat Langley, Arizona State Univ.
Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Overmars, Utrecht University
Ian Parberry, Univ. of North Texas
Yusuf Pisan, Univ. of Technology Sydney
Zoran Popovic, Univ. of Washington
Walt Scacchi, Univ. of California, Irvine
Gita Reese Sukthankar, Univ. of Central Florida
Bill Swartout, Univ. of Southern California Institute for Creative
Technologies
R. Michael Young (program chair), North Carolina State Univ.

Program Theme Area Members

Artificial Intelligence

Ian Horswill, Northwestern Univ.
Simon Lucas (theme co-chair), Univ. of Essex
Michael Mateas (theme co-chair), Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Julian Togelius, IDSIA

Computer Science and Games Education

Tiffany Barnes (theme co-chair), Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte
Wanda Dann, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Zyda (theme co-chair), Univ. of Southern California

Databases

Johannes Gerhke (theme chair), Cornell Univ.
Beng Chin Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore
Walker White, Cornell Univ.

Game Studies | Game Design

TL Taylor (theme chair), IT Univ. Copenhagen
Tracy Fullerton, Univ. of Southern California
Doug Thomas, Univ. of Southern California

Graphics and Interfaces

Bruce Gooch, Univ. of Victoria
Jessica Hodgins, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Steve Feiner (theme chair), Columbia Univ.

Networking and Security

Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wu-Cheng Feng (theme chair), Portland State Univ.
Travis Schluessler, Intel Corporation

FDG STEERING COMMITTEE

John Laird, Univ. of Michigan
Ian Parberry, Univ. of North Texas,
Jim Whitehead, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State Univ.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please see www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org for additional
information, or email Jim Whitehead, Conference Chair, at ejw@cs.ucsc.edu.


Adresse Internet : http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org

Mots-clés : game design, game studies, artificial intelligence, education, databases, graphics, networking, interfaces

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