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Research and Play

This page is devoted to disseminating information about research opportunities in the area of gaming and computing. If you have a link/resource that you know of and would like to include it here, please contact us and we will add it.

You can utilize some nice 3D face scanner technology that is housed at the SPSU Biometric Recognition Research Center. Email Barry Williams (bwillia3 AT spsu.edu) for more details.

A good map of gaming around the world can be found at gamedevmap.

GameCareerGuide.com is an excellent source of information and articles.

See all of the lectures from Casual Connect Europe 2011 for free.

Professional Societies and Web Sites

Journals

Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research
Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research
International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM)

Funding/Grants

Conferences

Third International Games Innovation Conference (Nov 2-4,2011), Orange, CA
North American Simulation and Gaming Association Conference (Oct 5-8, 2011), Philadelphia, PA
GameOn (November 17-19, 2010), Leichester, UK
Meaningful Play 2010 (October 7-9, 2010), East Lansing, MI
2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), (August 18-21, 2010), Denmark
Future and Reality of Gaming - F.R.O.G. 2010, (Sept 24-26, 2010), Vienna City Hall, Austria
Indie Game Challenge (deadline 10/31)
The 8th International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (November 23-24, 2009), Paris, France
GAMEON'2009 Simulation and AI in Computer Games (November 26-28, 2009), Duesseldorf, Germany
The Fourth Annual I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2009), Orlando, FL
IE2009: The 6th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (14-16 December 2009), Sydney, Australia
International Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (November 23-24, 2009), Paris, France
Independent Games Festival (March 9-13, 2010)
2008 Austin GDC (September 14-18, 2008), Austin, TX
2008 Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo, SEIGE (October 3-5, 2008), Marietta, GA
Meaningful Play 2008 (October 9 - 11, 2008), East Lansing, MI
Games for Health (October 18-19, 2008), University of Baltimore, MD
2008 International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference (November 6 - 8, 2008), Savannah, GA
Independent Game Conference (November 20-21, 2008), Austin, TX
Australasian Conference on INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT (December 3-4, 2008), Brisbane, Australia
2009 International Festival of Animation & Computer Games (February 2-6, 2009), Middlesbrough, UK
Game Developer Conference, GDC (March 22-23, 2009), San Fransisco, CA
Education Programme at Eurographics 2009 (March 31, 2009), Munich, Germany
2009 Foundations of Digital Games, used to be GDCSE (April 26-30, 2009), Port Canaveral, FL
Triangle Game Conference (April 29-30, 2009), Raleigh, NC
Independent Game Conference East (May 7-8, 2009), Boston, MA
Games for Change Festival (May 27-29, 2009), New York, NY
E3 Expo(June 2-4, 2009), Los Angeles, CA
- Microsoft announces project Natal (motion control and image processing for XBox 360)
IndieCade, at E3 - June 2-5 - Los Angeles, Asia TBA, at SIGGRAPH - Aug 5-7 - New Orleans, 2009 Festival - Oct 1-10, Europe - Oct 26-29 - GameCity UK
Games+Learning+Society Conference 5.0 (June 10-13, 2009), Madison, Wisconsin
Game Education Summit (June 16-17, 2009), Pittsburgh, PA
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (June 22-26, 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii
40th ISAGA 2009 conference, "Learn to Game and Game to Learn" theme (June 29-July 3), Singapore
Casual Connect Seattle 2009 (July 21-23, 2009), Seattle, Washington
Beyond Virtual: Building Intercultural Competence with Social Games and Online Communities (July 19-24, 2009) as part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA
Game Papers - 36th International SIGGRAPH(August 3-7, 2009), New Orleans, Loisiana
- 2/18/09 paper submission deadline for the Game Paper track
4th International Conference on E-learning and Games(August 9-11, 2009), Banff, Canada
- 1/10/09 submission deadline
The Philosophy of Computer Games International Conference (August 13-15, 2009), Oslo, Norway
Game Developers Conference Europe (August 17-19, 2009), Cologne, Germany
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference 2009 (August 25-28, 2009), London, UK
- 3/10/09 paper submission deadline
8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing(September 3-5, 2009), Paris, France
- 3/2/09 paper submission deadline
International Festival of Independent Games(October 1-10)
- 3/10/09 deadline for submissions

Research Opportunities and Jobs

These descriptions may or may not refer to currently open positions, but we list them here to show the types of research-related positions that are available if you want to do research in the field of gaming and media. Perform internet searches for these positions from here and at the institutions to which these postings refer for more information.

MIT's Media Lab - Scratch Community
Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Interactive Media and Game Development
Research Fellow (Fixed term), Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology
Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, Assistant Professor of Games and Interactive Media