*CFP* VJ 2019: 11TH CONFERENCE ON VIDEOGAME SCIENCES AND ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO

VJ 2019: 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts

27-29 November 2019

University of Aveiro, Portugal

KEYNOTES

Ernest W. Adams is a game designer and professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, with an extensive professional activity in the field of digital games, having published "Fundamentals of Game Design" (2014) and "Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design" (2012)

Ten years, and ten years more

The 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts will be held on November 27-29, organised by the Departament of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, and the Society of Video Games Sciences (SPCV). The annual conferences of the SPCV promote the scientific gathering of international researchers in Portugal. These conferences are attended by researchers and professionals in the expanded field of videogames — Multimedia, Communication, Technology, Education, Psychology and Arts — to disseminate work and exchange experiences between the academic community and with the industry.

In 2009 the conference was held at University of Aveiro. 2019 will mark the coming back after 10 years. We intend then to show a thorough roadmap of the evolution of the national and international game research during these 10 years, as also ideas and speculations for the next 10 years. Also, this time we plan going full international, using as working language English, for the CFP, the website, as the Proceedings. Therefore, if you've never participated in one Videojogos, this may be the best time to do it. We are calling for papers on games research from all over the world.

TOPICS

We welcome research proposals, long and short papers, and demos. All presenting new scientific results, innovative technologies, best practices, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the multidisciplinary research field of Games Research.

Suggested research topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

• Tabletop Games
• Hybrid Games
• Gamification
• Technology
• Aesthetics Culture Development Learning Methodology Design Criticism Transmedia Narrative Serious Games

SUBMISSIONS

Papers (short and full) must be in English. Only submissions that receive high ratings in the review process will be selected for publication by the Program Committee.

All submissions should follow the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) format (see “Information for Authors of Springer Computer Science Proceedings” at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) use the Word Template https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1.

Link for submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vj2019

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline (full and short paper): July 31, 2019

Author notification of the review: September 15, 2019

Submission of the print-ready version: October 1, 2019

VJ2019 conference: November 27-29, 2019

PUBLICATION

Full papers: 12-15 pages Short papers: < 12 pages

The proceedings are planned to be published by Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series, pending of final approval. 

The Communications in Computer and Information Science is a book proceedings series by Springer and Indexed by SCOPUS, SCImago, and ISI Proceedings. 

More info at https://www.springer.com/series/7899

COMMITTEES

Conference chair: Ana Isabel Veloso

Scientific chair: Nelson Zagalo

Organising chair: José Nunes

Programme Committee (in construction):

Lynn Alves, UFBA, Brazil

Miguel Carvalhais, University of Porto, Portugal

António Coelho, University of Porto, Portugal

Conceição Costa, Lusófona University, Portugal

Paulo Dias, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Thiago Falcao, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil

Christopher Ferguson, Stetson University, US

Aderito Fernandes Marcos, Open  University, Portugal

Emmanoel Ferreira, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Renira Gambarato, Jönköping University, Sweden

Abel Gomes, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Joao Jacob, University of Porto, Portugal

Beatriz Legerén, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Fotis Liarokapis, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Filipe Luz, Lusófona University, Portugal

Carlos Martinho, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Jorge Martins Rosa, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Alex Mitchell, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Leonel Morgado, Open  University, Portugal

Wolfgang Mueller, University of Education Weingarten,  Germany

Ricardo Nakamura, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Victor Navarro-Remesal, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain

André Neves, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Jorge Palinhos, Escola Superior Artística Porto, Portugal

Teresa Piñeiro Otero, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Antonio José Planells, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Rui Prada, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Thorsten Quandt, University of Munster, Germany

Christian Roth, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Pedro A. Santos, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Frutuoso Silva, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Maite Soto-Sanfiel, University Autonoma Barcelona, Spain

Roger Tavares, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Ana Torres, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Jose Zagal, University of Utah, US

Organizing Committee:

 José Nunes (Organizing chair)

Ana Isabel Veloso (Conference chair)

Nelson Zagalo (Scientific chair)

Oscar Mealha (Scientific co-chair)

Tânia Ribeiro (Branding and design)

Silvino Almeida (Web design)

Liliana Costa (Registration staff)

Mónica Aresta (Registration staff)

Pedro Beça (Workshop chair)

Mário Vairinhos (Demo chair)

Contacts

Ana Veloso, (aiv@ua.pt)

Nelson Zagalo, (nzagalo@ua.pt)

Organisation

DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction

University of Aveiro - Portugal

Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências dos Videojogos

Support

University of Aveiro

American Corner

FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia