IE2019 – Part of Australasian Computer Science Week

Interactive Entertainment is Australasia's longest running games and digital entertainment conference. IE2019 marks the 15th anniversary of the conference. IE2019 will be held as satellite conference of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW), organised by the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE). This year, these will be hosted by the Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Topics

Interactive Entertainment has a long history of being a diverse conference that bring together a broad audience of researchers and academics. The conference encourages and pursues deep collaboration and the strength of past events has always been the depth of conversation between people from diverse disciplines. We encourage contributions from fields as diverse as computer science, social science, design, communication, media studies, music, engineering, health and mathematics. Anyone interested in the myriad of technologies and approaches that make up interactive entertainment are encouraged to come along and share your discipline's perspective on interactive entertainment.

Game design theory and practices	Games history and culture	Interaction design
Dynamic difficulty adjustment	Networking models	Computer graphics
Game physics	Sound design	Artificial intelligence
Transmedia	User interface design	Serious games and gamification
Exergaming	Project management in games	Virtual/augmented reality
Experimental game design	Interactive film	Interactive simulation
Animation in games	Pervasive games	Government policy on games
Procedural content generation	Discussions on narrative	Data analytics in games
Sociocultural aspects of videogames	New media and videogames	Games research topics not listed here

Dates

Conference: 29 - 31 January 2019

Submissions (Extended): 19 September 2018

Notifications: 15 October 2018

Camera-Ready: 9 November 2018

Submissions

Interactive Entertainment is a peer reviewed academic conference. All submissions must be original work, not previously published elsewhere, and not currently submitted to any other conference or journal. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking such that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work.

Format

All submissions are required to use the ACM Standard Proceedings format and conform to the ACM formatting guidelines (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).

De-identification

Interactive Entertainment reviews are conducted as a double-blind process. Please Remove author names, and any additional information in the paper that could be used to identify the paper authors.

Page Limits

Full Papers - Between 4 and 10 pages. Short Papers - An extended abstract of no more than 4 pages.

Ready to Submit

Submissions will be through the EasyChair website for the ACSW conference. Please make sure to select "Interactive Entertainment" from the list of submission options.

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Program Chairs

Dr. Dale Patterson

Griffith University

A.Prof. Michael Hitchens

Macquarie University

Dr. William Raffe

University of Technology Sydney

Committee Members

All paper & demo submissions will be blind peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee below.

A.Prof Stephen Barrass
University of Canberra, Australia
Dr Karen Blackmore
Newcastle University, Australia
Prof Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Dale Patterson
Griffith University, Australia
Dr Andrew Ensor
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Dr Lauren Ferro
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dr Gudrun Frommherz
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Prof Anders Drachen
University of York, UK
Dr Jaime Garcia
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
A.Prof Michael Hitchens
Macquarie University, Australia
Dr Paul Inventado
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
A.Prof Fabio Zambetta
RMIT University, Australia
Dr Martin Masek
Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr Keith Nesbitt
Newcastle University, Australia

Prof Andrew Brown
Griffith University, Australia
Dr Yusuf Pisan
University of Washington Bothell, USA
Dr Shamus Smith
Newcastle University, Australia
Dr Malcolm Ryan
Macquarie University, Australia
Dr William Raffe
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
A.Prof Jose Zagal
University of Utah, USA
Simon Demediuk
RMIT University, Australia

Registration

Registration will be through the ACSW 2019 website (www.acsw.org.au) and will open closer to the date of the conference. Registering for ACSW will allow attendees of Interactive Entertainment to attend sessions from any of the other co-located conferences at the Australasian Computer Science Week.