Workshop on Serious Games and Cultural Heritage
In cooperation with the iMareCulture project, we are organizing a Workshop on Serious Games and Cultural Heritage in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications 2017.
Scope
The overall objectives of the workshop are the discussion and sharing of knowledge, and scientific and technical results, related to state-of-the-art solutions, technologies, and applications of serious games in cultural heritage, as well as the demonstration of serious games in cultural heritage. We believe the workshop will further enlarge the audience of this conference and thus keep improving the quality of the papers submitted. The nature of the workshop is multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in all the technology and application aspects of serious games and cultural heritage. The target audience is everyone in the general computer graphics and computer games research community with an interest in cultural heritage.
Topics
The workshop seeks original high-quality research and application/system paper submissions in all aspects of Serious Games and Cultural Heritage. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• Interactive digital storytelling for virtual cultural heritage applications
• Challenges and trends in Serious Games for Cultural Heritage
• User engagement and motivation
• Assessment of the learning impact
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Game mechanics suited for CH education
• Personalization, adaptivity and Artificial Intelligence
• Game architectures
• Psychology and Pedagogy
• Best practices in the development and adoption of SGs for CH
• Generation and representation of cultural content in Games
• Culturally relevant Non-Player Characters
• Applications and case studies
Co-chairs
Bart Simon (Concordia University)
Sudhir Mudur (Concordia University)
Charalambos Poullis (Concordia University)
Selma Rizvic (University of Sarajevo)
Dimitrios Skarlatos (Cyprus University of Technology)