Whole Body Interaction in Games and Entertainment

The 4th International Workshop on Whole Body Interaction

8th November 2011, Lisbon Portugal, ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology conference

Web site: http://lister.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmsdengl/WBI2011/

Deadline Extended to 14th August

Whole Body Interaction has evolved over recent international workshops to investigate richer forms of interaction involving movement, physiology, cognition, emotion and social context. Whole Body Interaction provides a framework for the design, engineering and research of theories and approaches to involving the whole person in interaction. In this workshop we concentrate on Whole Body Interaction in Games and Entertainment. We call for position papers in the following (non-exclusive) topics

• Design approaches bridging motion and other user Capabilities
• Engineering models of Whole Body Interaction
• Multiple sensor and device engineering
• Future consoles for Whole Body Interaction
• Case Studies in Advanced Games and Entertainment Interaction
• Integrating Emotion in Games and Entertainment
• Natural User Interfaces

Authors are asked to submit position papers of 4-6 pages on the above and related topics. Papers will be selected for the relevance and timeliness. Papers should be in the ACM Extended Abstracts format. Accepted authors must commit to attending the workshop. The workshop will focus around initial presentation of position papers before moving on to discussion of wider issues to establish the future research direction of the area. Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library, and published in the workshop proceedings.

Send papers to d.england@ljmu.ac.uk

Key Dates

Submission: August 14th, 2011
Notification: August 31st, 2011
Workshop Date: November 8th, 2011

Organising Committee

David England, LJMU, UK
Abdennour El Rhalibi, LJMU, UK
Adrian David Cheok (Keio University, Japan & NUS, Singapore)

Review Committee

Nick Bryan-Kinns, Queen Mary University, UK
Florian Diaber, DFKI, Saarbruecken , Germany
Paul Fergus, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Rose Johnson, Open University, UK
Andreas Komninos, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Floyd Mueller, Stanford University, USA
Anton Nijholt, University Twente, Netherlands
Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China
Pablo Romero, National University of Mexico
Jennifer G Sheridan, BigDog Interactive, UK
Jakob Tholander, Stockholm University, Sweden
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania