Symposium 'Challenges for Serious Gaming Research'
On Thursday February 16, 2012, the GATE project organized its final symposium.
‘Challenges for Serious Gaming Research' was the final symposium organized by the GATE project. In this symposium we showed results from pilots, research, and innovation, and looked ahead at future developments. How will game technology help address the grand challenges for our society? What is needed for creating engaging virtual worlds, populated by meaningful virtual characters, which initiate natural interaction, and result in effective transfer of gaming? The program consisted of a mix of presentations, and demo's. Anyone could play with the results of our innovative game pilots in education, health, and safety. The participants were enthusiastic, and there was a lot of playful interaction.
Program and presentations Chair Matthijs Dierckx (publisher Control Magazine)
10.00 | Registration and coffee
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10.30 | Introduction Remco Veltkamp (director GATE)
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10.45 | Let's improve the world! (pdf 2mb) Rafael Bidarra (Delft University of Technology) Enhancing geospecific data with procedural detail (pdf 1 mb) (watch on youtube) Matthijs Schaap (Deltares)
When virtual humans become real (pdf 4mb) Dirk Heylen (Twente University) Using artificial intelligence to design flexible and natural dialogues (pdf 1mb) Ivo Swartjes (RANJ) Natural Interaction (pdf 1mb) Arjan Egges (Utrecht University) EEG Indicators of Stress (pdf 1.7 mb) Tobias Heffelaar (Noldus Information Technology BV) |
12.30 | Lunch, poster- and demo market During this market you can watch demonstrations of the technology developed and play with some created games. Also you can get additional information at the posters.
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14.30 | Learning from Serious Games? (pdf 1.2mb) Frank Dignum (Utrecht University) Citizen Science for smartphones (pdf 3.3 mb) Ronald Lenz (7scenes)
Serious Game Design for Playful Learning (pdf 4.5 mb) Keimpe de Heer (Waag Society)
Playful Cure and Care (pdf 3 mb) Willem-Jan Renger (Utrecht School of the Arts)
Dilemma trainer for mayors, developing this gaming was only the beginning of the challenge (pdf 1.4 mb) Josine van de Ven (TNO)
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16.15 | The next 5 minutes: trends in gameful innovation Jeroen van Mastrigt-Ide (We Love Your Work, Dutch Game Garden)
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16.45 | Drinks |
18.00 | End of the symposium |
Registration is closed