Interactive Entertainment

14th - 18th February 2022
Online
The 18th annual Australasian conference on interactive digital media design and technologies Part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW)
It has been a very unique two years for everyone under COVID-19. But one thing that has remained consistent - the world's love of games, virtual/augmented reality, interactive film and broadcasting, eSports, and the expansive communities and cultures surrounding all forms of digital interactive entertainment. Please join us for this year's online event. Reflect on the year that has been, discuss the future of technology, and celebrate the emerging trends in global remote engagement in entertainment, education, health, politics, and so much more. Interactive Entertainment is Australasia's longest running games and digital entertainment conference. IE2022 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, all of ACSW will be run online.

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:  14 - 18 February 2022
Submissions: 19th November
Notifications: 19th December
Camera-Ready: 14th January


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 linked below. ACM Workflow and Templates.

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.

Click here to submit your paper






Program Chairs

Allan Fowler
Allan Fowler

University of Auckland

Chair

    William Raffe
    William Raffe

    UTS

    Co-Chair

      Michael Hitchens
      Michael Hitchens

      Macquarie University

      Co-Chair

        Simon Demediuk
        Simon Demediuk

        University of York


        Co-chair

          Committee Members (TBC)

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

          Andrew Brown
          Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

          William Raffe
          University of Technology Sydney

          Burkhard Wuensche
          University of Auckland

          Jose Zagal
          University of Utah

          Matt Bray
          SAE Institute
          Karen Blackmore
          University of Newcastle

          Michael Hitchens
          Macquarie University

          Simon Demediuk
          University of York

          Robert Ross
          La Trobe University

          Tomas Trescak
          University of Western Sydney
          Dale Patterson
          Griffith University

          Jaime Garcia
          University of Technology Sydney

          Stefan Greuter
          Deakin University

          Harley Ogier
          Auckland University of Technology

          Daniel Della-Bosca
          Griffith University

          Registration

          Registration will be through the ACSW 2022 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.