CyberGames 2006: International Conference on Games Research and Development

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IE 2006: The Third Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment

The Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment 2006 (CGIE2006) will be held on 4-6 December 2006 at the Esplanade Hotel Fremantle, Western Australia. This is a joint international conference on CyberGames 2006: International Conference on Games Research and Development, and IE 2006: The Third Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment. This joint international conference is proudly supported by Department of Industry and Resources of Western Australia.

Proceedings available in ACM Digital Library

Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Game Research and Development (CyberGames 2006) 

Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2006)

Exploring and familiarizing with the latest developments in the game and interactive entertainment industry.

• Vision of the Future Mobile Games, by Elina M.I. Koivisto (Nokia Research Centre)

• Social and Physical Interactive Paradigms for Mixed Reality Computer Entertainment, by Adrian David Cheok (Mixed Reality Lab)

• Animation Factory - A Reality? by Hock Soon Seah (Nanyang Technological University)

• Entertainment and Robotics, by Ryohei Nakatsu and Naoko Tosa (Kwansei Gakuin Univeristy/Kyoto University)

• Networked Appliances in Home Entertainment, by Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University)

• Rethinking Learning Games: Why They Must Evolve In Order To Survive, 
  by Scot Osterweil (MIT Education Arcade)

• Game AI - Industry vs. Academia - Round 1, by Alexander Nareyek (interactive intelligence Labs (ii Labs))

• Animating human and creature characters with procedurally generated anatomical elements, by Jian J. Zhang (Bournemouth University)

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Game-Art-Interface, Session Chair: Andrew Hutchison Curtin University of Technology

Classical Animation, Session Chair: Hock Soon Seah,Nanyang Technological University

Game Artificial Intelligence, Session Chair: Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University

Experiential Spatiality in Games: Knowing Your Place, Session Chairs: Nicola J Bidwell (Primary contact), James Cook University; Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne; Bernadette Flynn, Griffith University; Luke O’Donnell, Chocolate Box Productions

Soft Computing and Games/Entertainment, Session Chair: Prof. Takehisa Onisawa, University of Tsukuba

 

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Honorary General Conference Chairs: Andris Stelbovics, Murdoch University Arnold Depickere, Murdoch University   General Conference Chairs: Kevin Wong, Murdoch University Lance Fung, Murdoch University Peter Cole, Murdoch University   Publication Chair Shri Rai, Murdoch University	Registration Chair Ingrid Richardson, Murdoch University Local Arrangement Chair Graham Mann, Murdoch University Publicity Chairs David Parkinson, Department of Industry and Resources Mark Cypher, Murdoch University Exhibition Chair Ong Sing Goh, Technical University of Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
CyberGames 2006   Technical Program Co-Chairs: Edmond Prakash, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.   CyberGames 2006 Technical Program Committee	IE 2006   Technical Program Chair: Yusuf Pisan, UTS, Australia   IE 2006 Technical Program Committee

COLLOCATED EVENTS

International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents & Robots This workshop seeks to move the research frontier by focusing on the scientific bottlenecks, namely equipping robots with more knowledge about internal representations and the external world, as well as developing an awareness of oneself and others. Conference Website:  http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar/

 http://www.cgie2006.murdoch.edu.au/ email: k.wong@murdoch.edu.au