Program

Thu Dec 17

8:45	Registration
9:15	Welcome Malcolm Ryan
9:30	Keynote: Magy Seif El-Nasr
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Session 1 Games and Stories – Chair: Malcolm Ryan Jared Beghold Introducing iCinema Bronwin Patrickson PLAI: Staged Encounters in Computer-mediated Environments Damian Hills assimilate: Situated Collaborative Storytelling System Discussion: Storytelling in games: going beyond the ‘epic’.
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Session 2 Game Technology – Chair: Chris Chesher Keith Nesbitt, Ken Sutton, Joshua Wilson and Geoffrey Hookham Improving Player Spatial Abilities for 3D Challenges Jing Liu and Manolya Kavakli A survey of Speech-Hand Gesture Recognition for the Development of Multimodal Interfaces in Computer Games Bram Pellens, Frederic Kleinermann and Olga De Troyer A Development Environment using Behavior Patterns to Facilitate Building 3D/VR Applications Discussion: What does the future hold for game interfaces?
15:00	Afternoon Tea
15:30	Demo iCinema

Fri Dec 18

9:15	Housekeeping
9:30	Keynote: Jane Turner
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Session 3 Design Theory – Chair: Rowan Tulloch Michael Hitchens BJ’s Family: A Survey of First Person Shooters and their Avatars Malcolm Ryan Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy — A Close Reading Brigid Costello and Ernest Edmonds A Tool for Characterizing the Experience of Play Discussion:
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Session 4 Cultural Theory – Chair: Brigid Costello Chris Chesher Converging mediations of space in computer games and spatial navigation systems Rowan Tulloch Ludic Dystopias: Power, Politics and Play Ilaria Vanni Second Life Discussion:
15:00	Afternoon Tea
15:30	Demonstrations Jeevan Joshi The Entrepreneurial Business Simulation Game Damian Hills assimilate Yose Widjaja mummifiCATion
18:30	Conference Dinner at Crowne Plaza Coogee

Sat Dec 19

9:15	Housekeeping
9:30	Keynote: Ulrike Spierling
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Session 5 Applications – Chair: Malcolm Ryan Debbie Richards and John Porte Developing an Agent-Based Training Simulation using Game and Virtual Reality Software: Experience Report. younbo jung, Jing Li Koay, Janissa Ng, Gladys Wong and Kwan Min Lee Games for a Better Life: Effects of Playing Wii Games on the Well-Being of Seniors in a Long-Term Care Facility Jeff Sinclair, Philip Hingston and Martin Masek Exergame development using the dual flow model. Anthony Youssef and Steve Cossell Thoughts on Adjusting Perceived Difficulty in Games Discussion: What are the wider applications of ‘fun theory’?
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Forum: Chris Chesher – Fibreculture Forum What’s behind the regulation of interactive entertainment? The fibreculture forum will focus on the cultural and institutional processes driving government regulation of interactive entertainment platforms. From games classification to the proposed internet clean feed, changes in government policy, legislation and regulation have been driven by different actors, agendas and framings. What has been the role of key lobby groups, political parties, bureaucracies, industry groups and University players in forming digital media policy? How can those involved in interactive entertainment industries be most effectively involved in the achieving fair and balanced regulatory regimes?

Monday, Dec 21

9:00-16:00

There will be two tutorials held at the University of Technology, Sydney. Tutorials are independent of the IE2009 conference, but since they are presented by the invited speakers, they will be of interest to all IE2009 attendees.

Please see the Tutorials Page for details on how to apply to attend these tutorials.

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