Call for Papers
GHItaly17 – 1st Workshop on Games-Human Interaction
In Conjunction with The 12th Edition of CHItaly,
the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
http://sites.unica.it/chitaly2017/ghitaly/
Deadline for submitting papers: May 28
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1st Workshop on Games-Human Interaction (GHItaly 2017) aims at bringing together scholars and industry practitioners to establish a common ground on the topic. Main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on HCI applied to design and production of video games. The application range of video games has to be intended in its broadest sense: both entertainment and applied finalities.
GHItaly 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian ACM SIGCHI Chapter, from 18th to 20th of September 2017 in Cagliari.
TOPICS
The workshop aims at collecting contribution advancing the research applied to video games. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
- Human Computer Interaction
- Usability (also for special needs)
- Biometric measures for interaction
- Game Design & Level Design
- Artificial Intelligence applied to Game and Level Design
- Visualization techniques
- Immersive VR systems
- Social interaction in video games and virtual environments
- Software architectures
- Distributed and Online systems
- Sensemaking
- Agency of objects
- Critical or meaningful play experience
- Moral choices
- Procedural rhetoric
- Storytelling
SUBMISSION
All paper submissions must be in English, and they must not exceed six (6) pages in length, including references. The papers must be formatted using the ACM SIGCHI format. The latest version of the ACM SIGCHI templates can be found at the following URL: https://chi2017.acm.org/submission-formats.html
Papers must be submitted online on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferen ces/?conf=ghitaly17
All the papers will be subject to a double review process by the members of the Programme Committee. The proceedings with the papers accepted to the GHItaly 2017 workshop will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), and will be indexed by SCOPUS. The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 28 – Deadline for submitting papers
June 30 – Review notification
September 18 – GHItaly 2017 Workshop
September 19-20 – CHItaly 2017 conference
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Maria De Marsico – Sapienza Università di Roma
Laura Anna Ripamonti – Università degli Studi di Milano
Davide Gadia – Università degli Studi di Milano
Dario Maggiorini – Università degli Studi di Milano
Ilaria Mariani – Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative)
Barbara Rita Barricelli – Università degli Studi di Milano
Riccardo Berta – Università degli Studi di Genova
Maresa Bertolo – Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano
Matteo Bittanti – IULM Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione
Umberto Castellani – Università di Verona
Alessandro De Gloria – Università degli Studi di Genova
Maria De Marsico – Sapienza Università di Roma
Ines Di Loreto – Université de Technologie de Troyes
Gabriele Ferri – Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Davide Gadia – Università degli Studi di Milano
Marco Granato – Università degli Studi di Milano
Jouni Ikonen – Lappeenranta University of Technology
Antti Knutas – Lappeenranta University of Technology
Pier Luca Lanzi – Politecnico di Milano
Dario Maggiorini – Università degli Studi di Milano
Ilaria Mariani – Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano
Mario Ornaghi – Università degli Studi di Milano
Claudio Palazzi – Università di Padova
Daniele Riboni – Università di Cagliari
Laura Anna Ripamonti – Università degli Studi di Milano
Elif Surer – Middle East Technical University
Francesco Tissoni – Università degli Studi di Milano
Stefano Valtolina – Università degli Studi di Milano
Daniela Villani – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
CONTACT
Ilaria Mariani, PhD
Politecnico di Milano | IMAGIS Lab
ilaria1.mariani@polimi.it