SGaMePlay 2012 - Second Iberian Workshop on Serious Games and Meaningful Play (SGaMePlay 2012)

Second Iberian Workshop on Serious Games and Meaningful Play (SGaMePlay 2012)
Scope
Digital Games, also referred as Video Games, are becoming an important and disseminated cultural product enabled by several concurrent factors such as: several recent technological developments, the high availability of powerful and mobile but inexpensive computational platforms, and the increased literacy of the population in respect to information technologies. Traditionally, Digital Games have been mainly designed for entertainment purposes. However, as it happens with conventional games, game play is a highly structured activity that can be designed to result in a meaningful play. This approach is the foundation of Serious Games, an emergent and multidisciplinary research topic focused on using computer games with other purposes than pure entertainment. Serious Games have many applications domains such as education, training, physical and cognitive rehabilitation, urban planning, etc.
This workshop intends to be a forum where researchers, practitioners and industry representatives have the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and latest research results of meaningful play and serious games. The workshop intends to cover several dimensions of the original research as regarding to theoretical, methodological and technological developments and also new applications.
Call for Contributions
We invite authors to submit unpublished work to the Second Iberian WorkShop in Serious Games and Meaningful Play - SGaMePlay’2012. Authors are invited to contribute with research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the multidisciplinary field of serious games. Submitted work must not be not under revision elsewhere.
Topics
Topics of interest include any area related to Serious Games and Meaningful Play. In particular, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
● serious game design
● characters, story and storytelling
● content creation
● serious game development (systems and frameworks)
● game engines
● enabling technologies
● multiplayer serious games (massive mode, collaboration, competition)
● virtual, augmented and alternate realities.
● AI for serious gaming
● natural user interfaces
● usability analysis
● pervasive and mobile games
● evaluation and user studies
● social and psychological impact of digital games
● case studies and applications