FDG 2014, the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving game studies, game technologies, gameplay, and game design.The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational uses, and modes of play. Since its founding 9 years ago, FDG has become a premier venue for the discussion and dissemination of games research. FDG grew out of a series of games research gatherings organized by Microsoft on cruise ships, which were excellent venues for having intensive discussions with research colleagues in an enjoyable setting. This year we’re bringing FDG back to the cruise ship: it will be held April 3-7, 2014, on the Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas, sailing from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, to Cozumel Mexico.… read more. “Call: Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2014”

ACM CSCW 2014 Workshop on Collaboration and Coordination in the Context of Informal Care (CCCiC 2014)
February 15, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
http://cccic2014.wordpress.com

CCCiC 2014 is a workshop at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. It seeks contributions on issues of design and development of systems to support coordination, communication, and collaboration between informal caregivers, their friends, family members, and health professionals, such as:… read more. “Call: ACM CSCW 2014 Workshop on Collaboration and Coordination in the Context of Informal Care (CCCiC 2014)”

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS (EVA) LONDON 2014

Tuesday 8th July – Thursday 10th July 2014
Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA
www.eva-london.org

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: 10th January 2014

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ART, MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE, THE SCIENCES AND MORE

Offers of papers, demonstrations, panel sessions and workshops by 10th January 2014

We are looking for varied session types. We invite proposals for papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions. We especially invite presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications for the 2014 conference themes. Demonstrations are as welcome as are more formally presented papers.… read more. “Call: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2014”

LUDO 2014 – Game Audio Conference

April 10th – 12th 2014
University of Chichester, UK

http://www.ludomusicology.org/ludo-2014/

The Ludomusicology research group is pleased to announce the third annual conference on video game sound and music, featuring:

• Keynote address by Kevin J. Donnelly (Southampton University)
• Industry sessions with game audio professionals
• More speakers and events to be confirmed

We are currently accepting proposals for 20-minute research papers.

While we will consider papers on any topic related to video game audio, the conference themes this year are:

• Canons and curating game music
• Simulation, immersion and “the real” in sound and audio
• Game audio outside games

Please submit your paper proposal (c.200 words) to ludomusicology@gmail.com by January 31st 2014.… read more. “Call: LUDO 2014 – Game Audio Conference”

2nd Global Conference: Transmedia: Storytelling and Beyond

Wednesday 14th May – Friday 16th May 2014
Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:

The Global Research Project on Transmedia was launched in Sydney, Australia in January 2013 with a programme that brought together researchers, educators, industry practitioners and other stakeholders across the professional and disciplinary spectrum. (The programme is available online at http://tinyurl.com/bnysnt4.) Discussions highlighted critical issues concerning techniques for user engagement; research, pedagogy and curriculum design; and evaluative techniques for complex and dynamic user engagement. The conversations highlighted the diversity of transmedia projects and fostered a greater appreciation of the ways in which alternative reality gaming, narrative and non-narrative multiplatform productions and social media projects fall under the transmedia rubric. For our follow up event in Lisbon, Portugal we welcome proposals for presentations, panels and interactive workshops that continue the dialogue by attending to themes that include:

Innovation in Transmedia Design and Production

• Aesthetics and creativity in production designs and trends
• Technologies of platform production
• Social networking trends and their impact on transmedia development
• Narrative development models and the mechanics of transmedia storytelling: emergent forms, formats, practices
• Non-narrative transmedia models
• Case studies

Education

• Research methods for studying transmedia
• Institutional acceptance of transmedia in the curriculum
• Different disciplinary approaches to transmedia
• Teaching transmedia
• Teaching with transmedia
• Training future transmedia producers (i.e.